more from the ongoing Levi concert

Few things are more pleasurable than hearing things you agree with expressed in a voice that you could never quite manage to mimic, and Levi’s been doing that a lot for me in recent months.

Looking forward to his book, and I happen to like the new title better as well.

“If there has been a great merit to object-oriented ontology, I think it is twofold: First, in my view, object-oriented ontology is the first post-non-philosophical philosophy. Laruelle argues that the central gesture of any and all philosophy is to divide the world into a factum and datum, a transcendental and a phenomenon, such that philosophy is perpetually caught in a vicious circle where it assumes the very thing it seeks to account for. In other words, philosophy, according to Laruelle, is auto-positing, and, for this reason, is unable to reach the real. By contrast, non-philosophy begins from the real according to Laruelle. From the standpoint of object-oriented ontology, non-philosophy remains too idealist in its tenor, and therefore all too metaphysical in its assumptions. Object-oriented ontology inscribes this very translation of the real into objects themselves, pluralizing it and thereby rendering it ubiquitous, rather than the exclusive domain of philosophy. In this way it is able to formulate a post-non-philosophical philosophy.”