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Brassier - Stellar Void or Cosmic Animal - Badiou and Deleuze on the Dice-Throw
"Stellar Void or Cosmic Animal - Badiou and Deleuze on the Dice-Throw" 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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Core idea
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.
How to read this text
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.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
Stellar Void or Cosmic Animal? Badiou and Deleuze on the Dice-Throw RAY BRASSIER In 'So Near!, So Far!', the appropriately titled preface to Deleuze: The Clamour of Being, Alain Badiou suggests that Deleuze's thought is linked to his own through a relation that simultaneously combines intimate proximity and irreducible distance.
Definition · paragraph 17
Conclusion: the stellar void punctures the cosmic animal Let's conclude by recapitulating the basic philosophical parameters of the disagreement between Deleuze and Badiou on the question of the dice throw.
Definition · paragraph 17
Conclusion: the stellar void punctures the cosmic animal Let's conclude by recapitulating the basic philosophical parameters of the disagreement between Deleuze and Badiou on the question of the dice throw. Badiou himself sums up the opposition by reinvoking Mallarme, with whom he aligns himself here against the Nietzsche-Deleuze tandem.
Definition · paragraph 16
Ray Brassier 215 the void of Being only comes to the surface of a situation in the guise of an event, chance is the material of a truth. And just as truths are singular and incomparable, the chance events wherein truths originate must be multiple and separated by the void. Chance is plural, which excludes the unicity of the dice-throw.
History · paragraph 17
216 Pli 10 (2000) distinction between dice-throws and resubmerging them in the void's virtual unity as a consistent ontological medium? Conclusion: the stellar void punctures the cosmic animal Let's conclude by recapitulating the basic philosophical parameters of the disagreement between Deleuze and Badiou on the question of the dice throw.
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Brassier, Grant, and Speculative Realism Primary section
Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.