QoW03 Reza Negarestani

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: owner ruling 2026-07-11: institutional recordings released except fee-charging course content; lane recent-institutional -> recent-institutional-released). Series: standalone. Source: audio original (.mp3).

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• 00:00:00

  So Erzsig Fein, you can't see us. Yes, I can hear you. Yes, perfect. You can't see us. It's full house here. We are really happy to have you with us. Thank you very much. But we see you properly, okay? Excellent, thank you. Thanks a lot. So, welcome. Reza Negaristani. Thanks, everyone. So, I'm going to, I have written…

• 00:06:47

  But the second and more important reason is that at the core of German idealism of Kant and Hegel, transcendental psychology for Kant and phenomenology of spirit and science of logic for Hegel, what we have is a fully elaborate and conceptually advanced inquiry into the structure of mind and subjective capacities. It…

• 00:13:44

  And so as Hayhoe. The capacity of forming and applying categories or general concepts, having perceptual judgments about the content of our experience, and the capacity to have more advanced, namely non-perceptual judgments, and specific concepts without which higher inferences are impossible. The question…

• 00:20:05

  The empirical self, as an object of knowledge, can therefore be represented as a passive self rather than an autonomous self. By passive I mean being caused to be in the state in which it is caused to be in by something external that is not mental. Now it follows that even if the inner perception, the core…

• 00:26:31

  Looking back at the computer example, we can say that the aperceptive subject of understanding is still a causal mechanistic automaton whose conceptual activities or responses are initiated by causal states and not just a particular cause. To the extent that the subject of understanding, or categorical judgment…

• 00:33:16

  But these are laws that are not natural in the sense that they are the laws that rational agents own collectively and legislatively. These laws are not merely one's own laws insofar as they are derived from one's own nature, as in contrast to a law imposed by a foreign cause. But they are one's own laws because they…

• 00:40:24

  So, to conclude, we have finally arrived at the stage where we can answer the question of the reality of will and the freedom of subjectivity that it embodies. It is not the experiential subject of the will for which we choose, which often happens to be ultimately arbitrary and heteronomous, which is worthy…

• 00:46:36

  Nor is there any more an excuse for not thinking what it means today to bring our individual experiences under new collective, rational comments to regard seizing the means of cognition as a scientific, philosophical, and political project of the future. With everything said, I second everything that has been said.