{"id":595,"date":"2011-10-08T18:24:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T00:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=595"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:28:23","slug":"on-reviving-the-carcass-of-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"On reviving the carcass of philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The following are collected tweets (@thanatology) I&#8217;ve made in the past month about <strong>posthumanism<\/strong>, or reviving the carrion of philosophy:<\/p>\n<p><em>Once the window to a frozen thanatosphere opens, thought becomes razor sharp enough to slice through the rotting corpse of anthropocentrism.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>And the slimy pus of the absolute seeps out and clot into new-old ideas: a heretical Derrideanism that continually savages itself<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0is a decadent form of post-Socratic felo-de-se that faces biological contingency w its own blind eyes a Corpse w\/o Organs?<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Freed from miserly enforcement of rule-bound metaphysical dilemmas, we are stoned by the fumes rising from a chaotic sea of virtualities.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Cynically supercharged w obscene desire for death, we, slaves to cruel directives of base materialism, bottom out in a dark zone of thought &#8212; once we see thru the deceptions of life Ego owns up to its pathology, embarrassed with its Macbeth dagger that drips the Earth&#8217;s black blood.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Agitprops of phenomenology, in resurrecting consciousness, merely plunge themselves deeper into the quicksand of their coprophilic narcissism.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Today&#8217;s thinkers are mere maggots feeding on the carcass of Brobdingnagians, whose feces will join the deep undercurrent of chthonic thought.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Crawling out from the bubbling orifice of its decomposing tomb, posthuman thought performs an autophagous Aufhebung as \u00a0cannibalism.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>A perverse slave of its own meaninglessness, Posthuman Thought gnaws at the root of the Yggdrasil of its own fatuous jurisdiction.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Today our amputated Reason continues to goose-step around calcifying totems of half-baked ideologies, either out of perversity or mockery.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Vaguely, the subject will re-cohere in the void pried open by the expulsion of Nature out of its hearth, due to revitalized post-idealism.<\/em><em>After sprinkling black salt on the wounds of theology, sliced by universal contingency, thought painfully realizes the anorexia of meaning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Posthuman thought adjusts its peripatetic trail among the gravestones of exhausted theologies in the misty light of the Polaris of nihilism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>Bizarre avatars will usher in new techniques of thought, sporadically evolving fetid rhizomes &amp; decaying yet again in a farcical cycle.<\/em><em>Inciting catastrophic predictions, opening a space for self-destructive ideological scrutiny &amp; directing thanatocratic methods, philosophy ends up as a mere choreography of furious, demented &amp; recurring political sequences.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are collected tweets (@thanatology) I&#8217;ve made in the past month about posthumanism, or reviving the carrion of philosophy: Once the window to a frozen thanatosphere opens, thought becomes razor sharp enough to slice through the rotting corpse of anthropocentrism. 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