The Aesthetics of Transcendental Materialism - Amy Ireland

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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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  So this is a little philosophical manifesto for something I'm calling xenopoetic creativity, using the idea of xenopoetics from Reza Nagarastani particularly, who published a great theory fiction novel called Cyclonopedia in 2009. And it's the idea of a poetics that comes from the outside, or from outside…

• 00:05:00

  This is the equally impossible paradox that haunts the birth of the modern era and provides the material conditions for the inauguration of the doctrine of finitude, less an advent of philosophical sincerity than a strategy for the management of excess. Land. Land. Land. Land. Land. Land. Land. Land. Land. ! Land…

• 00:08:05

  The catastrophe of alterity had been inverted for the time being. Nevertheless, the systematization of human experience was far from complete. The first critique necessitated a second, and the second necessitated a third, with each of these being different. So, in this sense, the first critique was a complete…

• 00:10:46

  The idea of the general of unconscious to design, intention, project, teleology. Kant's word genius is the immensely difficult and confused but emphatic resistance to such reductions, the thought of an utterly impersonal creativity that is historically registered as the radical discontinuity of the example…

• 00:13:49

  For in lawless freedom, imagination with all its wealth produces nothing but nonsense. The power of judgement, on the other hand, is the faculty that makes it consonant with understanding. Taste, like judgement in general, is the discipline or the corrective of genius. It severely clips its wings and makes it seemly…

• 00:16:43

  Crystallisation doesn't squarely fit into the organic or the purely mechanical schemata that Kant offers as possibilities for nature. Ostensibly, the passage points forward to the examination of teleological judgement. But Jones perceives a necessity to map it back onto the account of aesthetics. For without this…

• 00:19:03

  Thought, judgement, conceptual representation are all simply depotentiated versions of a functional potency generated by a productive primary synthetic material intensity. A catastrophic thing for Kantianism as it licences the collapse of the critical project into imminence from the side of materiality rather than…

• 00:21:56

  Thus, it could be suggested that, in the complex folds of the critique of judgement, there lies a hidden genealogy which opens on to a future different from that foregrounded by Kant. A future without subjects and objects, a future of material interference patterns running through the human, a future of trans, post…