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Practical Eliminativism; Getting Out of the Face, Again
"Practical Eliminativism; Getting Out of the Face, Again" belongs to Brassier's realism line, where abstraction, truth, and rational critique are used to pressure-test the archive's more charismatic inheritances.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they show one major route by which the archive is forced into clearer argumentative language. Brassier's realism turns the afterlife of Land and the CCRU into a problem of truth, abstraction, and rational critique rather than scene myth or stylistic intensity alone.
The mechanism is pressure through philosophy. Sellars, Laruelle, Badiou, nihilism, and realism all become ways of testing whether concepts survive once they are detached from their original scene charisma and forced into stricter conceptual articulation.
That matters because this section is about philosophical afterlives, not only loyalty or rejection. Brassier keeps the archive alive precisely by refusing to leave its concepts in their original rhetorical atmosphere.
How to read this text
Read for how realism, truth, or abstraction are being defined before following the page into its local debate or target.
Track where the page tests Land or post-CCRU concepts against a stricter account of philosophy. That pressure is usually the real hinge of the text.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
Mark Fisher Practical Eliminativism: Getting Out of the Face, Again I want to talk about the problems around the concept of experience. But I’ll start with an accelerationist genealogy, starting off with the position that many of us were oriented around in the 90s, which was Nick Land, Landianism.
Definition · paragraph 1
Mark Fisher Practical Eliminativism: Getting Out of the Face, Again I want to talk about the problems around the concept of experience.
Definition · paragraph 3
But they’re turning towards banal ends, such as Facebook, smartphones, etc. What you’re seeing are behavioural tics that have passed through a population, i.e. looking at a screen, digital twitch, etc. These behaviours were not in place ten to fifteen years ago; it was impossible for them to be in place.
Definition · paragraph 1
I think one of the crucial moves of the last few years was to move against experience, actually. Rather than pursue this kind of quest for an impossible experience, instead to point out the contrast between the cognitive and what can be experienced.
Definition · paragraph 3
These behaviours were not in place ten to fifteen years ago; it was impossible for them to be in place. Now they are ubiquitous. The practical question, and it’s a schizoanalytic one, is whether that is only possible on the basis of faciality.
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.