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Ireland2013
"Ireland2013" 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 7
Ireland Bouequet 2 Amy Ireland is a PhD Candidate in Creative Writing with the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales where she teaches creative writing and co-convenes Aesthetics After Finitude, a research group dedicated to the problematics of speculative aesthetics. Her work is focused on a reappraisal of twentieth century poetics through the prism of new theories of philosophical realism.
Definition · paragraph 7
Her work is focused on a reappraisal of twentieth century poetics through the prism of new theories of philosophical realism.
Definition · paragraph 5
When a cipher is provided for the phoneme-to-shape abstraction, it is possible to y y . backwards from the phonic instantiation to the original, written text. However, if the original text is suppressed, a poem that passes through this system can never be wholly decrypted or laid to rest in a definitive form: a persistent cryptographer will find it impossible to go deeper than homophonic equivocation.
Definition · paragraph 5
The shapes are strung together in an order that correlates with the phonic representation of each text in an infinite line along the . y materially rendered phonemes inwards so that the assemblage is almost solid and the resulting object is printed in three dimensions in synthetic polyamide, informed by the scale and dimensions of a flower. When a cipher is provided for the phoneme-to-shape abstraction, it is possible to y y . backwards from the phonic instantiation to the original, written text.
Definition · paragraph 5
When a cipher is provided for the phoneme-to-shape abstraction, it is possible to y y . backwards from the phonic instantiation to the original, written text.
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.