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Introduction: From Negation to Non-Being Cengiz Erdem’s post-nihilism represents a radical reorientation of philosophical thought in the wake of the collapse of foundational metaphysics. More than a response to nihilism, post-nihilism reveals a speculative opening in the absence of metaphysical certainty—what Erdem terms the “symbolic void.”¹ This void, rather than a site of despair, becomes…
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Introduction: Traversing the Void Nihilism is not simply a historical phase to be overcome; it is a structural condition of modernity, the subterranean truth of a world that has severed its metaphysical roots. As Nietzsche proclaimed, the death of God marks not a crisis of faith alone, but the implosion of the ontological scaffolding upon…
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Introduction Post-nihilism is a profound philosophical project in extensive conversation with major figures in the Western philosophical canon, including Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marcuse, Adorno, Ray Brassier, and Quentin Meillassoux. By relating Cengiz Erdem’s thought to these thinkers, we can better understand his unique position within contemporary philosophy and his innovative contributions to post-nihilistic ontology, ethics,…
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Introduction: The Crisis of Meaning and the Need for Post-Nihilism Contemporary philosophy finds itself at a unique crossroads—between the dissolution of foundational meaning and the imperative to think beyond despair. The “death of God,” proclaimed by Nietzsche, and the end of grand narratives, diagnosed by Lyotard, have left thought suspended in a metaphysical vacuum. This…
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Abstract This article offers a philosophical analysis of Cengiz Erdem’s Mortal, All Too Mortal: The Book of Nihil and Post-Nihilistic Speculations. In this two-part work, Erdem explores the epistemological and ontological dimensions of post-nihilism through both a philosophical novel and a theoretical treatise. Central themes such as the conceptual persona, the immortal subject, materiality of…
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Introduction This essay unfolds in two interwoven movements. Part 1 explores the psychoanalytic and temporal architecture of post-nihilism, tracing how subjectivity is captured by ideology and yet is still capable of rupture. Part 2 will examine speculative openings and mythopoetic trajectories beyond that rupture, turning toward aesthetics, cosmology, and non-being as creative horizons. In Part…
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by S.C. Hickman Feb. 23rd, 2011 at 1:46 AM “For Bataille, the reason why people see the foot as inferior to the head is their habit of attributing a higher status to the vertical forms of thought. Man should fall on his four legs, otherwise he will never be able to write himself out not…
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by S.C. Hickman on Jan. 29th, 2011 at 11:09 AM “Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there.” – Italo Calvino “We shall defend the…
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With Deleuze the Cartesian mind-body dualism has been replaced by body-language dualism. Without being too insistent about it at this stage I would like to hint at where the relationship between these dualisms is heading. I propose, therefore, what Deleuze has already pointed out, namely a new possibility of analysing the nature of dialectics in…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: I would like to resume, today, the parallel between you and Heidegger that I was sketching in my last letter. 1) A crucial difference seems to count against the comparison. In your work there is no “historial” set up, of the type “history of the forgetting of being”, “decline”, etc. As…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: Lecture delivered during #Zizek‘s visit to Film and Television Studies Program at The University of Vermont on April 16, 2019… You might enjoy this talk more if you’ve watched the Black Mirror series which we cannot recommend highly enough… It includes passages from Zizek’s forthcoming book provisionally entitled Hegel in a Wired Brain…
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In this lecture Zizek clarifies the reasons of capitalism’s failure and points out what is to be done for a less bad future…
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via A Conversation Around Nietzsche Between a Stoic and a Sceptic [Audio] — Senselogic
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by Louis Armand | February 1, 2016 | Sonder Magazine In his “Dialectics of the Fable” (2000), Alain Badiou discusses a series of films, Cube(1997), The Matrix (1999) and David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999), as philosophical machines. These are films that, in Badiou’s estimation, both reflect upon and in a sense encapsulate a set of “problems” – what we might…
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Text Here via Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (3) – From Metaphor and Towards Metamorphosis (Audio-Visual) — Senselogic
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Full Text by Cengiz Erdem Here via Three Modalities of the Immanent Infinity: Life, Matter, and Thought in Henry, Deleuze, and Badiou (Audio Essay) — Senselogic
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By Naomi Farmer |Edinburgh University Press Blog Every major philosopher refines and revises their initial theories in their later works. After all, philosophies do not simply spring forth from the mind in their final form. Yet it is far less common to see a philosopher break from their initial position and create a second and…
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Originally posted on SenseLogic: The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Drive In our daily lives we create little worlds of our own and invest them with various meanings. These worlds have their own logics, orders repetitively staged every day; this gives us a sense of continuity in time and hence a sense of security.…
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LA GAZETTE D’ALIAHOVA « EN TOUT, HENRYEN! » N. 100, DÉCEMBRE 2018 1 DÉCEMBRE 2018 Rédigé par Roland Vaschalde et publié depuis Overblog Ces quelques chiffres en guise de bilan (provisoire) de l’existence de la Gazette d’Aliahova, dont la diffusion commença sous forme d’envoi par mails en 2010 avant de prendre sa forme actuelle de…
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Abstract In this essay I attempt to explicate the sense in which Michel Henry’s reductive phenomenology rendering Life as affectivity resonates with Alain Badiou’s subtractive ontology rendering the subject as eternity in time. I claim that these two modes of subjectivity are the two modalities of the Real manifesting itself as quality (Henry’s patheme) and…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: View this document on Scribd
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via Cinematic Apparatus, Brain, and the Psyche as Fantasy Machines (Audio Essay) — Senselogic
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Ontological Catastrophes and Transcendental Time Machines: Dialectics of Time and Event from Kant and Hegel, across Deleuze and Badiou, towards New Futures by Cengiz Erdem via Ontological Catastrophes and Transcendental Time Machines (Audio Essay) — Senselogic
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via Altering the Supposedly Predestined Future: Utopia as Method, Structure, and Process (Audio Essay) — Senselogic
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Originally posted on Senselogic: Another end of the world is possible… The Event of Loss as the External Cause of Thought At the inception of philosophy there is a loss, but not all philosophers begin with this loss. While some of them start from before the loss, some others begin after the loss. One way…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: Sonsuzluk özne ile nesne, amaç ile araç, neden ile sonuç arasındaki ilişkinin anlamsızlaşarak ortadan kalktığı, böylece de işte varlıkları birbirleriyle ilişkilerine bağımlı olan bu kavramların bizzat kendilerinin yok olduğu, zaman ile uzam içindeki bir boşluk formunda zuhur eden o malûm içkin dışsallıktır. Özneye içkin aşkınsal bir kavram olan sonsuzluk mevcut-egemen varoluş…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: Güneşin 4.5 yıl içerisinde sönmesi neticesinde dünyamızdaki tüm yaşamın son bulacağı yönündeki spekülasyonların son dakika haberi olarak manşetlere taşındığı o mübarek geceden tam bir yıl önce dünyadaki tüm televizyon ekranlarının bilinmeyen bir sebepten ötürü beyazlara bürünmesinin olası sebepleri üzerine derin düşüncelere dalmıştı Dr. Lawgiverz. Hatırlanacağı üzere bir kitap önce televizyonları takiben…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: With the aim of changing the past, an impossible thing to do, the subject messes with nature, and his intrusion causes the very event which he was trying to prevent from happening. Just like Oedipus’s father who, in escape from a prophecy, falls victim to his choice of way to escape,…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: Image via Wikipedia Melanie Klein makes a distinction between the introjected objects and the internal objects. The internal objects include the introjected objects as well as the objects of identification and the a priori fantasy images. According to Klein introjection is a defence mechanism against the anxiety and the fear of…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: Kant’s initial project was to explicate the difference between “knowing-what” (pure reason) and “knowing-how” (practical reason) in the way of laying the foundations of a scientific metaphysics. Counter to Descartes[1] and Hume[2] he aimed at situating the subject within the limits of what can be known by rational human beings. The… via…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: Catrin Welz-Stein – Unborn Ideas I close the eyes of my intelligence, and giving voice to the unformulated within me, I offer myself the sense of having wrested from the unknown something real. I believe in spontaneous conjurations. On the paths along which my blood draws me, it cannot be that…
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Originally posted on Senselogic: Freud calls the content of the unconscious the latent dream-thoughts.[1] That which one sees in a dream is already a translation of this primal scene. The images in a dream stand in for the gap in the symbolic order; they symbolize the latent content of the dream, which are the unconscious…
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“In a world full of violence, destruction and death, or “madness in every direction,” as Kerouac would have said, the subject becomes nothing but a projector of the evil within society.” ~ Cengiz Erdem The Nihil Solipsist: a being that knows neither its own nothingness nor the dark self-cannibalizing force of all those others within; trapped within the introjected prison-house of an impure fear, bound to the cross of a symbolic…
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The Spirit shows itself as so impoverished that, like a wanderer in the desert craving for a mere mouthful of water, it seems to crave for its refreshment only the bare feeling of the divine in general. By looking at the little which now satisfies Spirit, we can measure the extent of its loss. ~…
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| Cengiz Erdem | Senselogi© | June 4, 2010. The Evil Spirit and The Spiritual Automaton It is a recurrent theme in science-fiction-thriller movies that in time humanity turns into the slave of its own creation, namely of machines. It is precisely because of this fear of being replaced that humanity attempts to get out…
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