So I've decided to
start writing a lot more, in a desperate attempt to get myself to
think more rigorously about the world. I read far too much and think
far too little (relatively—I could always read more and be
happier). And what better place to write than on my blog?
A few
thoughts/themes that I have recently become interested in:
1. Zizek's reading
of the Hegelian subject (chapter 6 of The Sublime Object of
Ideology): All this positing
presuppositions stuff is crazy!
2.
Speculative Realism: I recently read After Finitude and loved
the idea but found the arguments to be somewhat lacking or
downright wrong; currently I'm reading The Quadruple Object by
Graham Harman, so we'll see how that goes
3.
Nostalgia and its relation to déjà vu (particularly the
metaphysical questions that come with it)
4.
Universals and universalism: I'm interested in a rigorous critique of
particularisms of various kinds (Deleuzian or especially neo-fascist)
and the general question of how we can derive political and social
universalism from a theory of the universal
5.
Analytic philosophy: I feel like I could get a lot out of better
familiarizing myself with analytic philosophy, particularly
metaphysics and logic; I don't care so much for its other branches,
but those could provide some interesting shocks to my thinking
Anyhow,
I will hopefully begin developing my thoughts on these themes soon.
Let this be my tentative list of things to investigate.
