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Definition · paragraph 1
1 Navigate With Extreme Prejudice (Definitions and Ramifications) Reza Negarestani
Definition · paragraph 5
But to exaggerate the choice of topos and the initial decision as an overdetermining factor for the evolution of what happens next (what else, what other commitments and ramifications it provokes) is hardly anything more than an acute myo pia.
Definition · paragraph 10
Philosophy sees the action in the present in terms of destiny and ramifications, which is to say, based on the reality of time. It constructively adapts to an incoming and reverse arrow of time along which the current cognitive or practical commitment evolves in the shape of multiple future destinations re-entering the hori zon of what has already taken place.
Definition · paragraph 9
Philosophy pro poses analytico-synthetic methods of wayfinding in what Robert Brandom discribes as the ratio nal system of commitments.3 It analyzes commitments by examining what other commitments they lead to (diligently unpacking entitlements pertinent to each commitment).
Definition · paragraph 10
As soon as a man ifest destination is reached or takes place, it ceases to govern the historical trajectory that leads to it and is replaced by a number of newer destinations which begin to govern different parts of the trajectory, leading to its ramifications into multiple trajectories.
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Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.