Jeremy R. Smith
@en-demic
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Some of what I wrote today, what is remaining, and the inspiration from Laruelle’s Le principe de minorité (1981), p.81.
This is so far a fantastic read. I am really enjoying how Lynes is recontextualizing deconstruction in the framework of anti-correlationism and speculative realism via Derrida’s Blanchot-Heideggerian writings on the Thing, situating it on the basis of nature/physis and environmentalism.
Submitting this abstract to a conference on phenomenology and politics.
Today is the publication day of my translation of François Laruelle’s Theory of Strangers: Science of People, Democracy, and Non-Psychoanalysis, published by Edinburgh University Press. I’m very excited to see readers engage with the book! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-theory-...
Breaking some radio silence to show a diagram I’ve been working on that visually represents the process of non-philosophy. There’s a lot of work to clean up here, but it’s a start.
During reading week, I’ll work on translating the fifth section of the last chapter in Mystique non-philosophique; the passages here are enlightening regarding Laruelle’s commitment to human emancipation.
The duality of teaching. The joke is, I actually don’t want to sound or act like Rust when teaching.
I’m blown away by this book, When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut. The chapter on Grothendieck is amazing.
My first translation of 2025 will be Laruelle’s review of Derrida’s Clang, so, naturally, I have a headache.
0/2 in future academic prospects, now with my course proposal on non-philosophy being rejected. Funnily enough, I learned of the courses for the next year on social media. See below for my proposal (1/2):
Didn’t receive the fellowship, but here’s a snippet of the research abstract I sent. If you know of any postdocs or programs seeking to deal with genericity as a concept, genealogy, and epistemic framework, keep me posted.