Realist Magic has returned to Aristotle, but not out of some atavistic
desire to wipe away the achievements of modernity and return to an
oppressive theocratic regime. It is simply that modernity has now reached a
certain limit.This limit is characterized by, to cite only too brief examples,
the decisive appearance of nonhumans in human social, psychic and
philosophical space.The current ecological emergency consists in this
appearance. Some deep paradoxes concerning the Law of Noncontradiction have also emerged, within the very thinking of mathematics that grounds
modern science (Cantor, Hilbert, Russell, Gödel,Turing). The
contradictory beings that this lineage of mathematics and logic discovered
has necessitated an attentiveness to ways in which logic itself might need to violate LNC, the Law of Noncontradiction, especially when it comes to
thinking objects.That this appears to be the case despite the founding of
modern thinking upon LNC, provides more evidence that humans are now exiting the modern. Meanwhile, physics has discovered formal causation in the shape of nonlocal quantum interactions. I take these events to be
symptoms of the pressure exerted by real beings on the glass window of
epistemologically-inclined modern knowing.
These beings press on the glass like the uncanny faces in a painting by the Expressionist James Ensor. They are what OOO calls objects, and it’s time to let them in—or rather, to let ourselves out.
--Realist Magic (final two paragraphs)
These beings press on the glass like the uncanny faces in a painting by the Expressionist James Ensor. They are what OOO calls objects, and it’s time to let them in—or rather, to let ourselves out.
--Realist Magic (final two paragraphs)
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