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Brassier et al - Pricing Time - Outline and Discussion on Suhail Malik's 'The Ontology of Finance'
"Brassier et al - Pricing Time - Outline and Discussion on Suhail Malik's 'The Ontology of Finance'" belongs to Brassier's realism line, where abstraction, truth, and rational critique are used to pressure-test the archive's more charismatic inheritances.
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These pages matter because they show one major route by which the archive is forced into clearer argumentative language. Brassier's realism turns the afterlife of Land and the CCRU into a problem of truth, abstraction, and rational critique rather than scene myth or stylistic intensity alone.
The mechanism is pressure through philosophy. Sellars, Laruelle, Badiou, nihilism, and realism all become ways of testing whether concepts survive once they are detached from their original scene charisma and forced into stricter conceptual articulation.
That matters because this section is about philosophical afterlives, not only loyalty or rejection. Brassier keeps the archive alive precisely by refusing to leave its concepts in their original rhetorical atmosphere.
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Read for how realism, truth, or abstraction are being defined before following the page into its local debate or target.
Track where the page tests Land or post-CCRU concepts against a stricter account of philosophy. That pressure is usually the real hinge of the text.
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Definition · paragraph 17
What this third contingency of the derivative constitutes is its deracination, not with regard to the underlying (from which the derivative is deracinated by the contingen- cy of abstraction) but rather the deracination of price Ray Brassier et al. I Pricing Time: Outline and Discussion on Suhail Malik’s “The Ontology of Finance”
Definition · paragraph 25
Now, if one wants to say that this abstraction from the social is socially conditioned, I would agree; i.e., the autonomy of pricing on this account presupposes a series of social determinations which have been abstracted from, and they have to be recovered so as not to absolutize pricing in this way and to reassert financialization as a species Ray Brassier et al. I Pricing Time: Outline and Discussion on Suhail Malik’s “The Ontology of Finance”
Definition · paragraph 49
128 летери во класични работни услови слични на тие во фабриките. Прашањето е дали опашот го мавта кучето: Која фаза на глобалниот капиталистички си- стем има најголема детерминирачка моќ, која треба да се земе како репрезентативна за целината? Ова е прашање кое моментално не можам да го одговорам, но мислам дека е многу добро. Превод од англиски: Родна Русковска Ray Brassier et al. I Pricing Time: Outline and Discussion on Suhail Malik’s “The Ontology of Finance”
Definition · paragraph 1
[1] “… derivatives markets present a systemic risk to national and world economies” [2] […] “… the relative size of these markets is a fundamental risk to geopo- litical as well as economic security.” (629) 1 The following is an outline of Suhail Malik, “The Ontology of Finance,” Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development, Vol. VIII (2014), 629-813, prepared by Ray Brassier, followed by a discussion after his lecture on June 28 at the School for Politics and Critique 2017 in Ohrid, Macedonia.
Definition · paragraph 1
Bionote Ray Brassier is Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. А. Outline of Suhail Malik’s “The Ontology of Finance” Two Lessons 1. [1] “… derivatives markets present a systemic risk to national and world economies” [2] […] “… the relative size of these markets is a fundamental risk to geopo- litical as well as economic security.” (629) 1 The following is an outline of Suhail Malik, “The Ontology of Finance,” Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development, Vol.
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Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.