interesting title

Stirling Sterling Hall has posted an article with the following title: “Resonating Ontologies: The Illusory Nature of the Confrontation Between Žižek’s Ontology and Speculative Realism.”

The article can be found HERE.

I haven’t yet read the article, but one claim in the abstract is incorrect:

“There are two main currents of thought in Continental philosophy emerging today – the speculative realists (via: Graham Harman and Meillassoux) and the post-continental Marxists (via: Žižek and Badiou). The two camps have propped themselves against each other, with the speculative realists giving especially acerbic critiques of post-continentalism as being stuck in correlationist thought (while the latter just tend to ignore the former, considering them a philosophy not worthy of exposition).”

I’m not sure where Stirling Sterling Hall heard that Žižek and Badiou “ignore speculative realism, considering it a philosophy not worthy of exposition,” but it is not the case. Žižek and Badiou have in fact spoken and written quite a lot about speculative realism.

Hall’s central claim is apparently that the difference between these schools is illusory, being based on the theme of the “not-all.” I’ll see how he argues it and maybe post here about it once the chance has arisen to read it.

[ADDENDUM: Skimming this article briefly, I realize that I’ve seen it before. But how? I have no record of Stirling Sterling Hall himself having sent it to me, though maybe he did.]

[SECOND ADDENDUM: My apologies to Sterling Hall for misspelling his first name in this post. And it’s odd that I would have misspelled it in a counterintuitive way.]