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ray-brassier-the-expression-of-meaning-in-deleuzes-ontological-proposition
"ray-brassier-the-expression-of-meaning-in-deleuzes-ontological-proposition" 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
Pli 19 (2008), 1-29 The Expression of Meaning in Deleuze's Ontological Proposition RAY BRASSIER Philosophical modernity pivots around the question of meaning: Is th~ world inherently meaningful, or is meaning projected onto the world by humans? Or to put it another way: Is the world to be explained in terms of meaning, or meaning explained as an aspect - but only one aspect - of the world? Let us, for the sake of argument, assume that this is indeed the fundamental issue at stake in modem philosophy.
Definition · paragraph 1
Pli 19 (2008), 1-29 The Expression of Meaning in Deleuze's Ontological Proposition RAY BRASSIER Philosophical modernity pivots around the question of meaning: Is th~ world inherently meaningful, or is meaning projected onto the world by humans?
Definition · paragraph 25
RAY BRASSIER 25 the fully potentiated thinking of the fractured 1. For Deleuze then, being is nothing apart from its expression in thought; indeed, it simply is this expression, which is distilled in the crystallisation of meaning. *** This crystallisation is the focus of Logic of Sense.
Definition · paragraph 24
Ideas, therefore, are related not to a Cogito which functions as ground or as a proposition of consciousness, but to the fractured I of a dissolved Cogito; in other words, to the universal ungrounding which characterises thought as a faculty in its transcendent exercise."55 Thus the Idea in which the meaning of being is expressed is the unconscious of pure thought understood as ontological memory.
Definition · paragraph 16
More precisely, the ontologically 'expressive' relation between univocal being and its individuating differences is a function of the correlation between intensity in sensation and meaning in ideation which is effectuated through the caesura of thinking. Thus the 'expression' of intensive difference provides the obverse to its 'explication': where the latter corresponds to its degree of dilation in physical space, the fonner corresponds to its degree of contraction in psychic time.
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Brassier, Grant, and Speculative Realism Primary section
Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.