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Brassier, Ray

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“…However, Badiou is not anti-technological (see Badiou with Tarby, 2013, pp. 92-104); neither is he anti-scientific, as his ontological position in itself is mathematical, thus scientific (Brassier, 2010). Badiou himself states that 'mathematics = ontology' (2005, p. 6); 'It [mathematics] makes it possible to take on an ontology of the pure multiple without renouncing the truth .…”

Section: Treated As a Rat: Onto-epistemological Violence And The Fragmentioning

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Reconstructing truth, deconstructing ADHD: Badiou, onto-epistemological violence and the diagnosis of ADHD

Sjöberg

2019

Critical Studies in Education

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Psychiatric/neurodevelopmental diagnoses have expanded in number and scale with increased influence over matters of education and upbringing. One of the most common psychiatric diagnoses among children and adolescents is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The dominant perspective of ADHD is biomedical, where ADHD is defined as a neurogenetic dysfunction and disorder of the brain. Due to the absence of biological markers, the diagnosis is legitimized on the basis of a humanitarian principle: as an ideology. Through the diagnosis, which is construed in the article as a form of onto-epistemological violence, the unique subject is forced into an object and a second-class citizen who undergoes instrumental techniques of behaviour modification. The overall leitmotif of the article is to shift the focus from 'chemical imbalances' to 'power imbalances' to counteract reductionism, disempowerment and medical behaviourism. Theoretically, the article draws upon the French philosopher Alain Badiou's ontological examination of being qua being, wherein the aim is to critically examine the onto-epistemological violence following the diagnosis of ADHD and to seek out a less violent pedagogy.

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Section: Treated As a Rat: Onto-epistemological Violence And The Fragmentioning

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Reconstructing truth, deconstructing ADHD: Badiou, onto-epistemological violence and the diagnosis of ADHD

Sjöberg

2019

Critical Studies in Education

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“…In its strata-defying “stupidity, deformity, madness, illegitimacy, usurpation, sin” (p. 412), the war machine exists outside this all-encompassing order, but only as “a short revolutionary instant, an experimental surge” (p. 427) until it runs out of its “pure intensity” (p. 440). This is because the forces dealing with ‘strategy’ tend to triumph over a flow of desire that only has immanent ‘tactics’ in its disposal (Brassier, 2010). For D+G (2013b), the “hesitation of the nomad is legendary” (p. 487), denoting how even the most radical tendency is readily overtaken by the inertia of the social order.…”

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“…While there was giddy anticipation surrounding the long-term potential of r/wallstreetbets, it was in fact doomed from the start. For D+G, there is always a surplus of stratification (Brassier, 2010), and any moment a war machine starts to ‘succeed’ and thus to solidify, it loses the inertia that allowed it to evade capture. The capturing of rogue trading occurred in several ways in r/wallstreetbets.…”

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The r/wallstreetbets ‘war machine’: Explicating dynamics of consumer resistance and capture

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Hietanen

2022

Marketing Theory

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Following the recent #GameStop ‘market disruption’ where r/wallstreetbets ‘rogue’ traders were able to momentarily topple billion dollar hedge funds, we employ Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘war machine’ concept in order to comment on the potential of consumer resistance when matched up against global financial markets. While most extant theory follows the Foucauldian tradition in asserting that consumer resistance is a reaction to power, we use Deleuze and Guattari’s immanent theorisation of desire to make the case for thinking of resistance as primary. Far from a hagiography of affective affirmation, our immanent perspective draws attention to how state and corporate forms are readily able to co-opt consumer resistance. Ultimately, we make the case for reorienting consumer resistance research away from seeking out ruptures and breaks in stable structures of power to asking a more difficult question: how can resistance be organised to avoid capture?

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Ciencia y política: un dialogo entre Nick Land y Ray Brassier

León

2022

Mut. Mut. Rev. Int. Fil.

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Este artículo tiene como objetivo mostrar de qué manera Brassier se adhiere a la filosofía inicial de lo negativo de Land mientras rechaza sus derivaciones políticas humanistas en favor de un giro epistemológico hacia la ciencia. Brassier mantiene la noción inicial de Land de la muerte como la crítica trascendental del antropocentrismo, pero en cambio la vincula con la percepción de la cosmología sobre la eventual desaparición del sistema solar más allá de los procesos políticos antropocéntricos dentro de nuestro control. En este aspecto, en primer lugar, se expondrá cómo se desarrolla una política procapitalista y neorreaccionaria con tendencias profundamente narcisistas. En segundo lugar, se presentará cómo Brassier y Land están de acuerdo en que debemos aceptar nuestra futura extinción como la condición trascendental para pensar una realidad no conceptual más allá de nuestros delirios antrópicos de grandeza. Y finalmente basándose en las sugerencias de Reza Negarestani y Mark Fisher se ofrecerá una réplica para mostrar que, si bien el capitalismo es antropomórfico, es necesario luchar políticamente contra él en lugar de abandonar la política por completo en favor de la ciencia.

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Reconstructing truth, deconstructing ADHD: Badiou, onto-epistemological violence and the diagnosis of ADHD

Reconstructing truth, deconstructing ADHD: Badiou, onto-epistemological violence and the diagnosis of ADHD

The r/wallstreetbets ‘war machine’: Explicating dynamics of consumer resistance and capture

Ciencia y política: un dialogo entre Nick Land y Ray Brassier

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