Ray Brassier - The Pure and Empty Form of Death Deleuze and Heidegger

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• 00:00:00

  It's a pleasure to introduce Ray Brassier. Basically, I should say that this is part of work in progress and something that I've only recently started working on. It's mainly a chapter of a book on Heidegger and Deleuze, specifically their views on temporal individuation. Unfortunately, because it's a work…

• 00:06:58

  It is the attempt to articulate the relation between Sein and Dasein, and more specifically the connection between Dasein's temporal self-understanding and the temporal understanding of being in general that distinguishes the project undertaking in being in time from its germinal prefiguration in this 1924 lecture. So…

• 00:13:23

  Dasein itself oversteps in its being and thus is exactly not imminent. So Dasein's temporal ecstasis is a transcending, a stepping beyond. That every such removal or displacement possesses a determinate orientation, a whither, as that towards which Dasein steps over. And that towards which Dasein steps over…

• 00:20:23

  Recognizing the taint of idealist subjectivism in this latter, Heidegger went on to seek an even more originary access to the primordial happening. An ever more radical means of unearthing the condition for conditions. Ereigness, the fourfold, etc. But the phenomenological radicalization of transcendentalism initiated…

• 00:27:37

  Each term harbors a double aspect, depending on whether it is viewed from the side of representation or grasped in and for itself. The representational characteristics of difference are identity in the concept, opposition in the predicate, resemblance in perception, and analogy in judgment. But difference in itself…

• 00:36:49

  Thus, according to Deleuze, the second synthesis has merely introduced movement into consciousness rather than time into thought. It has not yet prized the difference which grounds representation free from the strictures of representation. And it is this splitting of passing time into an empirical present and a pure…

• 00:44:53

  So long as time is jointed or subordinated to the number of movement, all we have are nested successions of repetition. Each of which remains external to the other. There is no common measure between the first, the second, the third. The function of the third is to distribute this unequal series without subordinating…

• 00:57:37

  and I think that this this key kind of, this moment of equivocation or this fragility in Deleuze's you know, in Deleuze's execution of the transcendental project points to, is actually the result of the decisive role of psychic individuation, because if if individuation provides a sufficient reason for actualization…