a reader on the Žižek post

Actually, I think I forgot to make this point, but I agree with it:

“Speculative realism was never a whole which then split. It was always an extremely wide, vague genre which brought together disparate philosophies that were *already* very different. But, he likes this more Lacanian-Hegelian strategy that a whole has to appear split in some sense, or that it can’t coincide with itself, or that the intellectual positions are the result of some antagonism in the whole itself and I think that theory often wins out over the evidence.”

Yes, this is another incorrect point in the interpretation in Less Than Nothing. There was never a shared doctrine that underwent some sort of intellectual rupture. The only shared points were: (a) the critique of correlationism, and (b) a completely coincidental shared fondness for the writing of H.P. Lovecraft.

The very name “speculative realism” was a last-minute compromise, but that story has been told before.

Anyway, it’s not so important. The reference to Speculative Realism is a very small part of this rather lengthy book, and I look forward to reading all of it.