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Negarestani-2009-Differential cruelty
"2009-Differential cruelty" belongs to the wider Negarestani archive where horror, commentary, interview, and conceptual experiment keep post-CCRU theory-fiction in public circulation.
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Definition · paragraph 15
It is this being as a differential field of cruelty that calls for a speculative ethics of justice which is disillusioned about the precarious position of an ontological necessity and does not situate itself outside of the problematic.
Definition · paragraph 11
It is in the light of a philosophy of cruelty that Deleuze’s philosophy of difference can be integrated with his investigation of formal systems of cruelty, namely sadism and masochism. In this sense, Difference and Repetition can also be understood as a work that continues the study of cruelty from a non-dialectical approach to the formal systems of cruelty in ‘‘Coldness and Cruelty’’ in Masochism (1967) to a differential formulation of cruelty in Difference and Repetition (1968).
Definition · paragraph 14
For the idea of ontology, cruelty of the anterior ideal (namely grounding on the void) demands the cruelty of the posterior ideal or death by the problematic, whilst death by the problematic which coexists with the correlation of being with an inner necessity presupposes the cruelty of the problematical life.
Definition · paragraph 6
act of intellect – harboured by the idea of vitality and the intelligible ontology – is merely an opening to a maze of an inexhaustible cruelty. Determination of being or the idea of ontology, in this sense, is a labyrinth of cruelty from whose turns and twists no one can escape.
History · paragraph 2
ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume14 number 3 december 2009 I n the first chapter of his major doctoral thesis, Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze draws an intriguing, albeit abstruse, connection between cruelty and difference or determination as such.
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Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.