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>Unilateralization hamstrings dialectics. A unilateral duality is a structure comprising non-relation – the object X as unilateralizing identity – and the relation of relation and non-relation – objectifying thought as unilateralized difference between X and Y, identity and difference. Unlike more familiar instances of unilaterality in philosophy, which ultimately always retain two sides, the unilateral duality effectuated by determination-in-the-last-instance is a duality with only one side: the side of objectification as difference (relation) between X (non-relation) and Y (relation). Accordingly, where dialectics invariably orbits around the relation of relation and non-relation as apex of reflexivity -- which is also the apex of idealist narcissism, since it converts every 'in-itself' into a 'for us' -- the unilateral duality effectuated by determination-in-the-last-instance exemplifies an reflexive and hence non-dialecticizable disjunction between objectifying transcendence and unobjectifiable immanence; one which embodies the non-relation of relation and non-relation. Unlike every variety of reflection, whether transcendental or dialectical, determination-in-the-last-instance effectuates a unilateral duality with only one side – the side of objectifying transcendence. Since the latter is always two sided, i.e. dialectical, determination-in-the-last-instance effectively unilateralizes dialectics. Thus unilateralization cannot be dialectically re-inscribed.

How do I get on this level?

>> No.15057541

>>15057485
Is that quote from Nihil Unbound? I’m pretty sure Brassier has discredited the book since then. Either way, he’s not worth paying much attention to.

>> No.15057544

>>15057485
Read Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Ligotti first

>> No.15057670

>>15057485
That's just Deleuze

>> No.15057680

Someone post the edited version

>> No.15057733

>>15057485
LOL I once tried to read it but it's pointless without reading Sellars first.

>> No.15058191
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15058191

>>15057485
It is very telling that guys like Brassier never became and never will become memes on /lit/, whereas figures such as Guenon and Land are spammed constantly.
The reason for this is that when faced with a truly academic-level text, /lit/ exposes itself as the gaggle of dilettante pseuds that it is. And it's interesting how easily assimilated Guenon or Evola are by the vacuous midwit worldviews that most of /lit/ propound, whereas texts like Brassier's retain a truly intractable element in the face of their autodidact antics.
/lit/ is too stupid to understand the likes of Brassier, and so one can even come to use /lit/ as a sort of litmus test, in which any figure capable of becoming a meme on here, such as Guenon, Aquinas, Deleuze, et al, can thereby be known as trite and airy thinkers by the very fact of their meme-status.

>> No.15058235

>>15058191
Or it's just garbage as is evidenced in the writing.

>> No.15058580

>>15058191
You're probably right about all the pseuds here. And I love this book, haven't read it in years, definitely need to read it again. But apparently Brassier himself calls the book a "botched job", and afterwards began incorporating Sellars into his thinking.

https://afterxnature.blogspot.com/2012/08/ray-brassier-interviews-with-after_26.html

>> No.15058830

>>15058191
Evola is superior to this pseud garbage. Have you taken a step back to look at what academia has become?

>> No.15058873

>>15058191
Nihil unbound is fifty fucking dollars. Gimme a break. I can get like five other books for the same price

>> No.15058926

>>15057485
Lose a lot of brain cells.

>> No.15058957

>>15058191
Summarise what the para in the OP is saying, faggot. I dare you, I double dare you.

>> No.15059457

>>15057485
>>15058957
>>15057670
It is Laruellean. Post-Deleuzean Hegelianism. Difference results in an infinity of ends and creations. Multiplicity is the only way to tarry in the negative.

>> No.15060025

>>15058873
It's on b-ok and libgen

>> No.15060037

>>15059457
Yeah, that totally sounds like what the OP is saying. Totally.

>> No.15060353

>>15059457
kek
called out and owned.