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Nature After Nature, or Naturephilosophical Futurism
"Nature After Nature, or Naturephilosophical Futurism" belongs to Grant's nature-philosophy line, where Schelling, world, and transcendental speculation reframe the archive through cosmology rather than cybernetic meltdown.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they give the archive a different philosophical afterlife from Brassier's rationalist critique. Grant reopens nature, world, and Schelling as live speculative resources rather than treating modernity as exhausted by capital or nihilism.
The mechanism is transcendental and cosmological at once. Nature is treated as productive, self-differentiating, and conceptually generative, so philosophy becomes a way of tracking world-process rather than merely critiquing representation.
That matters because the site needs to distinguish Grant's nature philosophy from both CCRU accelerationism and speculative-realist branding. This cluster keeps visible a cosmological branch of the afterlife that would otherwise be flattened into generic realism.
How to read this text
Read first for how nature or world is being defined before moving into the denser speculative vocabulary around it.
Track where Schelling, cosmology, or transcendental argument stop being historical reference and become live conceptual machinery.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
Iain Hamilton Grant Nature After Nature, or Naturephilosophical Futurism¹ Abstract: This paper interprets Schelling’s “Weltgesetz” as a manifesto for phil- osophical futurism. As the Law of the World, the Weltgesetz is neither imposed upon nor summative of a world.
Definition · paragraph 11
For ontogeny as locally supplant- ing ontology, see the ‘Preface to the Italian Edition’ of my Philosophies of Nature After Schelling (2017). I argue this is a false account of the so-called biogenetic law, which is mere shorthand for the theory of recapitulation, in chapter 4 of Philosophies of Nature After Schelling (2008). Nature After Nature, or Naturephilosophical Futurism 107
Definition · paragraph 6
I would answer that long before man decided to create a system, there already existed one, that of the world-system or cosmos. (Schelling 1994, p. 179)⁶ That thought is consequent upon nature is, again, clearly asserted. Yet the pas- sage says more than this.
Definition · paragraph 6
This is the question with which Schelling began his celebrated Stuttgart Seminars in 1810: To what extent is a system ever possible? I would answer that long before man decided to create a system, there already existed one, that of the world-system or cosmos. (Schelling 1994, p. 179)⁶ That thought is consequent upon nature is, again, clearly asserted.
Definition · paragraph 13
Why, we might ask, is it “worldly” or natural that all possibilities be ful- filled? One solution would be to identify nature with the sum-total of possibili- ties and to say, with the Schelling of four decades prior to positing the Weltge- setz, that “anything whose conditions simply cannot be given in nature, must be absolutely impossible” (Schelling 1856–1861: I/3, p.
Appears in sections
Brassier, Grant, and Speculative Realism Primary section
Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.