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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.
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Definition · paragraph 1
64 Ray Brassier Deleveling: Against ‘Flat Ontologies’ Ray Brassier is associate professor of philosophy at the American University of Beirut.
Definition · paragraph 24
Thus justification alone is not sufficient for an account of truth. It needs to be supplemented by a non-justificatory causal relation capable of explaining how representing acts bear the appropriate cau- sal relations to the things their contents are about. We have 8 Wilfrid Sellars, ‘Some Remarks on Kant’s Theory of Experience’, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol.
Definition · paragraph 5
This claim is not peculiar to flat ontologists; other contemporary philosophers, including Markus Gabriel and Alain Badiou, defend some version of it. According to the third thesis, there is no constituting sub- jectivity: no pure Apperception, Geist, consciousness, Dasein, etc. Flat ontologists do not begin by identifying subjective conditions of epistemic access to reality.
Definition · paragraph 6
For Plato, philosophy or dialectics is pre- dicated on the subversion of this Parmenidean interdiction on asserting the being of non-being or non-being of being: dialectics affirms the mixture of being and non-being. Flat on- tology, in contrast, treats being as univocal: things can only be said to be in a single sense.
Definition · paragraph 23
It results in a false immanence, which needs to be rejected. The alternative conception of immanence I propose is one consequent upon adopting a stance that could be described as ‘transcendental naturalism’. It is most fully developed in the work of Wilfrid Sellars, which I am drawing upon here.
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