1.2 Inside

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• 00:00:00

  Welcome to section 1.2 on the philosophy of the inside in relation to the work of the CCRU. Now, the entire CCRU, Nick Land, Mark Fisher philosophical vector is indebted to the work of Immanuel Kant, especially Immanuel Kant's critique of pure reason. Now, one of the arguments I can roughly put forward at this stage…

• 00:01:53

  analytic and synthetic. A priori and a posteriori are known as epistemic distinctions. They relate to epistemology, the study of knowledge, or how we know what we know. Now let's take an example of each and analyze them. The statement it's raining outside right now is a clear example of a posteriori knowledge because…

• 00:02:55

  Whereas the fact it's raining outside right now is something that needs empirical investigation to be worked out, whether or not it's true. And so a posteriori means knowledge which comes after or from experience, and a priori means knowledge which comes before experience. It's necessary, it's universal. Now analytic…

• 00:05:15

  priori knowledge, knowledge, which is learned from experience, but is also necessary, and universal. Now, this fact of the possibility of synthetic a priori knowledge suggests that we're capable of knowing further truths, and that our reason and knowledge can be expanded. That is, we can learn new knowledge without…

• 00:07:43

  They are just absolutely always already necessary for there to be anything at all. As I've stated, time is always prior to space because space has to be in time. Now, this sort of simplistic articulation of the transcendental aesthetic from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason allows for the following conclusions regarding…

• 00:10:50

  when you try rip those glasses off when you try make them disappear or disintegrate that's what we're going to look into that's what we're going to try and find out here and that most importantly is what the CCRU was trying to find out but there's another interesting thing about the inside outside dynamic which…

• 00:12:22

  the subject is divided into two parts empirical and transcendental rendering its empirical half passive so of course you have the empirical half of the subject which empirically investigates its immediate representations but then you also have the transcendental half of the subject which in its inner sense which…

• 00:15:24

  is how do we mess around with this how do we play around with this how can we sort of potentially find exit strategies and escape scratches and that's what we're going to be looking at in later lectures and some of these lectures but this this first whole lecture and all its parts are about getting to grips with these…