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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: stage-1 acceptance ruling — lane open-web-talk approved for opus-only hosting; mp3 tier deferred pending a disk volume). Series: standalone. Source: video original (.mp4).

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• 00:00:00

  All right, so, time begins at the beginning. What the beginning is, however, is not given in time, and so in consequence we must ask what happened before there was time, which is a temporal category. So what happened before there was time is a plausible question, only if there is time already. But the alreadyness…

• 00:10:10

  The easiest example is maybe, I see. I see you filming. I see you filming while I'm thinking. I see you filming while I'm thinking and you don't know what else I see, that I see Jeanne holding the microphone. Every time I include a part, like I see into a bigger part, I see that you're seeing me or I see that you're…

• 00:21:28

  few decades. And in its place, the attempt to sort of set what we call an acceleration of politics. Which is really this attempt to recover the idea of the future, the idea of progress, and the idea of modernity as a sort of grand overarching narrative. Really drawing upon a lot of sort of Marxist ideas about…

• 00:32:11

  It's something kind of outside of the initial attempt to create a technology and then it produces some other effect that you didn't anticipate. If animals are humans that lost their humanity, there's an extent in which Western philosophy has to be, it has to lose its own philosophical potential to be able to start…

• 00:50:31

  And I think precisely what Zalamay is talking about with the transmodern is that synthetic moment. Zalamay's text I've read is Areopan and Penelope. He talks mostly about this in cultural terms. He talks about how various post-modern artworks and the way in which they have fragmentation and he links this to a cultural…

• 01:04:37

  a fictitious construct in a way okay you're always at the beginning and always at the end you're always at the beginning and always at the end you're always at the beginning and always at the end that's where it is there's no kind of it has no beginning and no end and at any point can be kind of you know kind…

• 01:28:42

  There's a certain amount of rejection. There's a certain amount that's happened in the interim that's shown us that Nick's kind of picture of capitalism as being this kind of diabolical engine for accelerating the end of humanity simply hasn't come to pass. Instead, what we've got is an incredibly complex, mediated…

• 01:41:24

  And so I think the challenge really would be whether we can understand the philosophical failure as a theoretical success, to speak about a theory of history, which is not philosophical, but nonetheless a good theory. Because it accommodates the incoherences and in a way, incapacities of conceptual construction…