Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964), 3.
Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of this Planet: Horror of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (London: Zero Books, 2011), 4–7.
Ibid., 158.
I prefer comedy to horror. The former demystifies not only everything that exists but also everything that does not, without reducing it all to mere data of positivist inventory.
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency, trans. Ray Brassier (London: Continuum, 2009).
See on this, for example, Oxana Timofeeva and Lorenzo Chiesa, “(Post)socialist Animals and Plants: Lysenko with Platonov,” in “Technology,” special issue, UMBR(a): A Journal of the Unconscious, 2012: 115–28.
Andrei Platonov, “On the First Socialist Tragedy,” trans. Tony Wood, New Left Review 69 (May–June 2011): 312.
Alenka Zupančič, “Realism in Psychoanalysis,” JEP: European Journal of Psychoanalysis 32 (2011): 33.
See Oxana Timofeeva, “The Non-Human as Such: On Men, Animals, and Barbers,” On_Culture 2 (Fall 2016) →.
Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny,” New Literary History 7, no. 3 (Spring 1976): 623–24.
Ibid.
Ibid., 634.
Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book 1: Freud’s Papers on Technique 1953–54, trans. John Forrester (London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991), 191.
See Oxana Timofeeva, “Unconscious Desire for Communism,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender, and Culture 11 (2015): 32–48.
Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927–1939, ed. Allan Stoekl, trans. Allan Stoekl, Carl R. Lovitt, and Donald M. Leslie, Jr. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985), 15.
Alberto Toscano, “Against Speculation, or, A Critique of the Critique of Critique: A Remark on Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude (After Colletti),” in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, eds. Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman (Melbourne: re.press, 2011), 87.
Simon Critchley, “Back to the Great Outdoors,” Times Literary Supplement, February 28, 2009, 28.
Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share, vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Zone Books, 1991), 21.
The capitalist unconscious is analyzed by Samo Tomšič in his book The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan (London: Verso, 2015).
Julian Semyonov, Seventeen Moments of Spring, trans. Katherine Judelson (New York: Riverrun Press, 1988).
Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Anonymous Materials (Melbourne: re.press, 2008), 16–17.
Ibid., 28.
Ibid.
Ibid.
David Marriot, “On Decadence: Bling Bling,” e-flux journal 79 (February 2017) →.
