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Collapse; Philosophical Research and Development Issue #3; Unknown Deleuze and Symposium on Speculative Realism - Editorial Introduction
"Collapse; Philosophical Research and Development Issue #3; Unknown Deleuze and Symposium on Speculative Realism - Editorial Introduction" 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
It is not without trepidation that we devote almost an entire volume to one particular philosopher; even more so given the ever-accelerating trend of secondary commentary and the rash of titles claiming to apply Deleuze’s thought to 1. In the second part of the volume we present a record of the conference ‘Speculative Realism’, which elaborates certain themes taken up in Collapse Volume II.
Definition · paragraph 32
COLLAPSE III 36 of science’90 – and even (affording a glimpse of one of those common inherited problems of Badiou and Deleuze) the ‘life of mathematics’ spoken of by Cavaillès and Lautman,91 than with a vulgarised Bergsonian élan vital. Only once we understand the common thread that runs through these ‘forms of life’ will it be opportune to ask (but perhaps then the question will not seem so simple) whether this ‘vitalism’ can be salvaged from a philosophically fatal analogy with the biological animal.
Definition · paragraph 2
COLLAPSE III 6 areas as diverse as dance, feminism and geography. These latter might be taken as proof enough of the continuing fecundity of Deleuze’s philosophy, but they belie the fact that it is still difficult to situate his work philosophically.
Definition · paragraph 1
Although assembled under the working title ‘Unknown Deleuze’, the volume announces no scandalous revelation, no radical reinterpretation; rather, this title simply indicates a humble acknowledgement of the fact that, philosophically speaking, Deleuze remains something of an enigma.
Method · paragraph 30
COLLAPSE III 34 Of course, we should not be afraid to do the same with Deleuze himself; to read him selectively would indeed be an apt task for a post-Deleuzian era. But in order to get to the stage where we can do so, we have to understand – or even better, reconstruct – the various dimensions of Deleuze’s philosophical thought, paying attention to their interrela- tions and interdependencies.
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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.