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What is to be done under Real Subsumption #7
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Ray Brassier presents 'One Day in Abstraction', his most explicitly political text, at the Berlin Accelerationist Conference.
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- standalone
- Duration
- 01:19:32 (~80 min)
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- 9,538
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- Ray Brassier
- Topics
- Ray Brassier · real subsumption · capitalism · political practice
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00:00:00
I'm going to close all the apps you have instead of Skype, okay? I don't have any... Okay, but I don't have Word, no. Help me, close my mail. Firefox, okay. But not Word, okay? I think we saw you in the chat room, but you haven't asked me to. Not too slowly. Okay. So yeah, we're just now telling everybody to come…
00:12:28
well it's very i find it difficult to make sense of but it sounds ultimately you know metaphysical thing about a problem takes it's more a wholly indeterminate negation um is something that can be infected um or you know prosecuted um through a set of you know um organized steps or practices um and so um this…
00:22:17
And I'm not, you know, I don't know what that theory would be. So I think, in other words, I think that while recognizing, you know, the, in a way, the kind of, the anachronistic kind of classical prognathism is entirely kind of necessary and a good thing, it's a kind of, in fact, it's indispensable. I think that…
00:33:09
Now I think that that is a dubious argument which I reject. So I think that that is, you know, I just don't accept, okay, that discursive rationality is always simply a kind of, you know, this ideological kind of an expressness of those are property of religions. I have a second point to make about that deal…
00:46:20
Okay, I think I've probably been talking for quite a while, so I'll make a shift. Okay, that was great. Thanks a lot, Grace. So maybe if people have questions, maybe they can come a bit closer so the microphone can pick up the voice and can be heard clearly. Through there. Huh? No, you hear very well. You hear well…
00:59:22
In other words, it seems, look, I have no idea, or I think it's this form that I view it in the future, but I have no idea what kind of transformations should or should be in the future. And I think that's what I'm engaged in, by revolution, I think. So that's why I agree completely that the theory seems to have…
01:08:37
Everything is wrong. Um... And... You can't... Any attempt to identify or to determine uh... what would be the right state of things is, you know, temptation to be able to talk off because that would simply... Yeah, rather the kind of identification that would simply... perpetuate what's wrong. Um... Um... So... No, I…
01:18:32
Dance. You have some music. You have some music in your... Or do you want to try to find out? Just unsaturated mediation, try it out. Here? Or... Here? Here? Here? Here? Here? Here? Here? Here? Here? Here? Here? Or do you... But... But... But... But... But... Thank you.