CCRU - Lecture 5

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• 00:00:00

  All right, it's past 6.30, so let's do this. Judgment day. So, yeah, this final session is going to begin by tracing the CCRU's influence on the work of Ray Brazier and Ian Hamilton Grant, two former associates of the CCRU who would go on afterwards to found what is called the Speculative Realist Movement, along with…

• 00:08:50

  For Schelling, the problem with Fichte here is that he does not really collapse the divide between subject and object at all, but merely reduces one side of the divide, nature, to the subject's own positing of a supposedly external object which the subject can then reshape or negate to assert its freedom…

• 00:16:23

  So yeah it's kind of it's tricky because it's paradoxical but the idea is that even as products differentiate differentiate themselves from nature and negate nature they actually affirm nature given that nature is nothing but this process of self-differentiation this process of productivity. So Grant puts this…

• 00:31:24

  to the extent that they re-anthropomorphise reality as well at certain points in their trajectory in particular much as the CCRU envisioned death or extinction as the ultimate transcendental horizon for reason thinking its own limits its own absence so does Brazier contend that philosophy must take extinction as what…

• 00:49:29

  implicit in the anti-human definition of capitalism proposed by land yet it leaves the aporetic truth of capitalism as an inevitable singularity or dissipation bound to the conservative order of the anthropic horizon unharmed so the idea here is that even if brazier only sees science as alone able to effectuate…

• 01:18:03

  no society there is the individual and family but in any case ultimately Cernich and Williams side with Marx against land as the paradigmatic accelerationist thinker insofar as Marx is able to affirm the liberation of the productive forces true potential from the fetters of the capitalist relations of production…

• 01:37:41

  them from their subordinate roles and fixed identities in real world patriarchal society and as people from all over the world jack in to interact through the same social networks and in online virtual worlds the internet permits all of us to interact with different people ideas and cultures which we would normally…

• 01:57:14

  is an intro right it's a survey course because you know I followed a certain I gave an overview of the CCRU and I followed a certain trajectory out of the CCRU that's a particularly philosophic trajectory I'd say you know looking at Brazier Courant and in particular land right but there's many other stories that could…