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iain-hamilton-grant-postmodernism-lyotard-and-baudrillard-1
"iain-hamilton-grant-postmodernism-lyotard-and-baudrillard-1" belongs to Grant's nature-philosophy line, where Schelling, world, and transcendental speculation reframe the archive through cosmology rather than cybernetic meltdown.
Archive condition
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Core idea
These pages matter because they give the archive a different philosophical afterlife from Brassier's rationalist critique. Grant reopens nature, world, and Schelling as live speculative resources rather than treating modernity as exhausted by capital or nihilism.
The mechanism is transcendental and cosmological at once. Nature is treated as productive, self-differentiating, and conceptually generative, so philosophy becomes a way of tracking world-process rather than merely critiquing representation.
That matters because the site needs to distinguish Grant's nature philosophy from both CCRU accelerationism and speculative-realist branding. This cluster keeps visible a cosmological branch of the afterlife that would otherwise be flattened into generic realism.
How to read this text
Read first for how nature or world is being defined before moving into the denser speculative vocabulary around it.
Track where Schelling, cosmology, or transcendental argument stop being historical reference and become live conceptual machinery.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
8.4 POST--MODERNISM· LYOTARD AND BAUDRILLARD Iain Hamilton Grant Introduction: what is post-modernism? 'Postmodemism', jibed Felix Guattari, aiming at a recent analysis of this complex of epistemological, aesthetic, social and political problems by Jean Franois Lyotard, 'is not philosophy at all, Uust] something in the air' (Guattari, 1986, p.
Stakes · paragraph 13
Marian Hobson and Geoff Bennington, in Andrew Benjamin (ed.), Judging Lyotard, London: Routledge 1-25. - (1993a) (first edn 1974), Ubidinal Economy, trans. Iain Hamilton Grant, London: Athlone. - ( 1993b), Political Writings, trans. and eds Bill Readings and Kevin Paul Gaiman, London: UCL Press.
Stakes · paragraph 7
Since Schelling's Ages of the World, Marx's history of capitalism and Heidegger's epochality of Being, philosophers have frequently sought to order history by their own paradigms; Baudrillard's theory of simulacra follows this tradition.
Stakes · paragraph 7
Since Schelling's Ages of the World, Marx's history of capitalism and Heidegger's epochality of Being, philosophers have frequently sought to order history by their own paradigms; Baudrillard's theory of simulacra follows this tradition. Following his schema, he is not a post modernist; rather, 'postmodernity' is the mode of modernity found within his schema.
Stakes · paragraph 7
In his chief theoretical work, Symbolic Exchange and Death (1993a), Baudrillard outlines his historiogra phical schema: rather than a shift from modernity to post-modernity, modernity itself is subdivided ac cording to the order of simulation. Since Schelling's Ages of the World, Marx's history of capitalism and Heidegger's epochality of Being, philosophers have frequently sought to order history by their own paradigms; Baudrillard's theory of simulacra follows this tradition.
Appears in sections
Brassier, Grant, and Speculative Realism Primary section
Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.