Theory of the Death Drive as a Model for Speculative Philosophy: Land, Brassier, Negarestani, and Bataille
| Autor: | Linartas Tuomas |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Lithuanian |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Problemos, Vol 103 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1392-1126 2424-6158 |
| DOI: | 10.15388/Problemos.2023.103.10 |
| Popis: | This paper deals with Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of the death drive from the perspective of speculative philosophy. For this purpose, three philosophers have been chosen: Nick Land, Ray Brassier, and Reza Negarestani. I claim that they gradually radicalised the Freudian thought: Land expanded it to capitalist economy and terrestrial geotrauma; Brassier shifted it towards a solar catastrophe and the prospect of extinction; Negarestani incorporated it into the exteriority of cosmic contingency. This way, Freud’s legacy emerges as a transcendental, epistemological and speculative instrument to tackle Meillassoux’s problem of correlation. I consider why this trajectory has ceased: I suggest a hypothesis that Bataille’s influence has not been overcome, especially in the case of Negarestani. I offer several vectors, according to which, Bataille could serve as an opportunity for openness to the Outside and a chance to continue the trajectory of the speculative death drive. I suggest that it is possible to reconsider Bataille as one of the precursors to the contemporary speculative thought. |
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