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Kant After Geophilosophy The Physics of Analogy and the Metaphysics of Nature
A philosophically dense page that reopens Kant after geophilosophy, making analogy and nature answerable to a deeper material outside.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The page matters because it asks what happens to critique once geology and nature are no longer background conditions but active pressures on thought.
It works by folding metaphysics of nature into geophilosophical problematics. Analogy becomes a site of strain rather than a secure bridge.
That matters because geotrauma repeatedly forces canonical philosophy into contact with an earth it cannot domesticate.
How to read this text
Read for the pressure placed on 'nature' and 'analogy' rather than trying to stabilize the Kant reference too early.
Track where geophilosophy changes what metaphysics is allowed to mean. That is the core transition.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
However, echoing the search for something to span the 'great gulf fixed' between practical and speculative reason in the third Critique? the problem repeatedly posed by the last works is an elusive 'science of transition' between metaphysics and physics9 - the problem of the relation of thought to the earth. And what is the nature of the revolution in question? As Deleuze and Guattari interpret Kant, revolutions do indeed call forth a new people, and a new earth.
Definition · paragraph 2
If therefore, metaphysics and physics are separated by a 'great gulf such as divides nature and freedom, the faces of this sundered rock meet deep in the earth, and are not merely conjoined by the technological fix of analogical bridges. Deleuze and Guattari begin to reassemble the 'objects' or a Kantian metaphysics of nature: geophysics, revolution, philosophy and new species.
Definition · paragraph 17
Kant After Geophilosophy 53 the metaphysics of nature and freedom necessitates the production of new species. In the late eighteenth century, 'physics' did not yet denote a spe- cialised field of study. Physics was simply the study of 'physical things', so that, for example, one could talk of Vegetable physics', as Kielmeyer does as late as 1807.
Definition · paragraph 17
Kant After Geophilosophy 53 the metaphysics of nature and freedom necessitates the production of new species. In the late eighteenth century, 'physics' did not yet denote a spe- cialised field of study.
Definition · paragraph 2
And what is the nature of the revolution in question? As Deleuze and Guattari interpret Kant, revolutions do indeed call forth a new people, and a new earth. It is the Copernican revolution that Deleuzoguattarian geophilosophy claims as its precursor, a revolution Kant claims as solely epistemo-judicial.
Appears in sections
Geotrauma and the Outside Primary section
Molten earth, Barker, the inhuman Outside, and the archive's geological imagination.