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Determination and World Possession
A philosophical page on determination and possession that belongs here for the way it questions how thought grips or fails to grip the world.
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Core idea
The page matters because geotrauma repeatedly unsettles any easy confidence that the world can be possessed conceptually. Determination becomes a problem rather than a guarantee.
Philosophical abstraction is used to expose the fragility of world-possession. Conceptual mastery is put under pressure from what exceeds it.
That matters because the outside is often first encountered as a limit on possession, control, and determination.
How to read this text
Read for the pressure placed on possession and mastery rather than for a neat metaphysical conclusion.
Keep the page beside geophilosophy and outside-writing. Its abstraction is part of the section's scale range.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 14
“Determination and World Possession” is part of the series ‘Alternative Hypotheses of the War Machine’. The first part was published in Šum #9 in Slovene. Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel (New York: Howard Fertig, 1996), 123.
Definition · paragraph 2
Determination and World Possession Vast Abrupt | 2 constraints imply an exterior necessity: As I fell, I saw smooth white stones on a muddy road; their order had a sense, it was necessary like the order of the stars, and within them was hidden a great wisdom.
Definition · paragraph 12
Determination and World Possession Vast Abrupt | 12 problematic variable of intervention. To the extent that the laws of nature and astrophysical objects are taken as approximate constants, it is the third category of life and intelligence that more deeply obscures the future according to the unknown character of its intervention.
Definition · paragraph 11
Determination and World Possession Vast Abrupt | 11 future bias informs physical eschatology, this is entirely consistent with science as such. At the same time, despite the shared temporal orientation of general scientific method and physical eschatology, Ćirković also argues that such future bias disappears from the perspective of the classical laws of physics, insofar as the latter are reversible.
Definition · paragraph 8
Determination and World Possession Vast Abrupt | 8 a “deep structure” that always abjures periodisation and, a fortiori now requires a “concrete historical philosophy of camouflage.” 29 If Jünger is generally absent from the attempts to construct a history of accelerationism, this is because he considers capital as peripheral to the phenomenon he experiences on the Front: Jünger equates the motor of acceleration entirely with war.
Appears in sections
Geotrauma and the Outside Primary section
Molten earth, Barker, the inhuman Outside, and the archive's geological imagination.