Tag Archives: Catastrophe

/Cloud/ – Conceptualizing Accumulation

Descartes argues that we know that our bodies exist because something must be causing our impressions of them–i.e., we aren’t simply dreaming but perceived reality is actually real. Spinoza, however, disagrees. He argues instead that bodies do not affect the … Continue reading

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History & Trauma ~ Civilization & Its Discontents

“I shall not recapitulate the disasters of the Alexandrian library,” Edward Gibbon writes in the fifty-first chapter of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The historian resolves, with these words, to remain silent about … Continue reading

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Catastrophism: Creation Through Destruction

Perpetual Restlessness and Endless Revision in the Absence of an Original: In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Idealism, the one who, for the first time, undermined Kant’s … Continue reading

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The Nightmare Will Be Archived: Our Culture of Disaster

The Kantian turn in philosophy marks a point at which the familiar opposition between Culture and Nature is problematized. Each becomes the ideal means through which to view the other. We will never adequately understand and explain living forms and … Continue reading

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