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Scarcity and Desire
Two related posts on scarcity and desire posted over at Larval Subjects. The discussion on contingency, necessity and scarcity in relation to After Finitude seems like a really interesting topic, as in history I think that people don’t do enough to emphasize not only the contingency of certain historical events, but the way in which their outcome shapes how we reflect on them retroactively. If history is to move beyond the economy of scarcity, and therefore beyond ideology and metaphysics, which attempt to establish the necessity of causality, then it should take up the task of locating what, within history, supersedes it, demonstrates its inherent deadlock / impasse.
Correlationism
If anyone read the article linked from Non-Linearity and Momentum, but, like me, had no idea what it meant, this post over at Larval Subjects does a really great job of explaining what, exactly, is being attacked: that is to say, it explains what correlationism is. Of course, I’m still curious as to how the ideas of speculative realism might impact transcendental materialism, but I suppose this requires reading After Finitude, at the very least.