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The Tour
"The Tour" 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Track where Schelling, cosmology, or transcendental argument stop being historical reference and become live conceptual machinery.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 27
I will turn to a particular quote here—this is Lorenz Oken, a notorious philosopher of nature from the end of the eighteenth century who wrote a treatise on the philosophy of nature that was some seven hundred pages long, it started with the relationship between mathematics and protoplasm and ended with a prayer for war…so clearly, a complete nutter!
Definition · paragraph 18
Both of these theories, however, take a crucial hint from a far older theory of the earth promoted by Buffon, whose 1788 Epoch de la Nature hypothesised that it was both a fiery igneous mass and the result of flooding that produced the earth in its current form.
Definition · paragraph 27
These three ranges of activity, geological activity, biological activity, and human activity, we might refer to as three stages that we are required to relate if we are to produce a systematic theory of nature. And the way this was done was via a theory called ‘recapitulation’.
Definition · paragraph 18
He had the idea that the earth as we inhabit it is the result of a giant catastrophe. Basically, an asteroid struck this body, this completed system of nature, and forced the earth into its current position, heating it, melting its ice, and turning it into its current form.
Definition · paragraph 18
Basically, an asteroid struck this body, this completed system of nature, and forced the earth into its current position, heating it, melting its ice, and turning it into its current form. The Earth was therefore, according to Buffon, cooling from a state of igneous fusion.
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.