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The Essay rethinks van Dyck’s portrait of the Stuart brothers as a site where matter and meaning refuse separation. It isn’t just pigment or symbol - it’s a relational field where social order and materiality co-constitute each other.
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#PhilSky #ArtTheory
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Materialität und Repräsentation im Porträt
Jenseits der Dichotomien
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Essay rethinks van Dyck’s portrait of the Stuart brothers as a site where matter and meaning refuse separation. It isn’t just pigment or symbol - it’s a relational field where social order and materiality co-constitute each other.
erwin-ott.web.app/ott-dyck.html)
#PhilSky #ArtTheory
erwin-ott.web.app/ott-dyck.html)
#PhilSky #ArtTheory
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It is the eventfulness that makes the portrait not just a masterpiece of Baroque art but a philosophical provocation, one that continues to resonate long after the paint has dried and the brothers have faded into history.
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The Flesh of Paint: Van Dyck’s Stuart Brothers and the Ontology of the Portrait
I.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It is the eventfulness that makes the portrait not just a masterpiece of Baroque art but a philosophical provocation, one that continues to resonate long after the paint has dried and the brothers have faded into history.
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1/10 How can philosophy think a reality independent of human consciousness? The essay looks at Meillassoux' critique of modern philosophy’s “correlationism” and offers a radical alternative via post-structuralism.
#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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Vom kritischen Subjekt zum spekulativen Absoluten
Die wahre kopernikanische Wende als Weg zur neuen Metaphysik
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November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
1/10 How can philosophy think a reality independent of human consciousness? The essay looks at Meillassoux' critique of modern philosophy’s “correlationism” and offers a radical alternative via post-structuralism.
#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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The true Copernican revolution is the dissolution of the subject and the embrace of the immanent absolute: the endless, dynamic, decentered becoming of the real.
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The True Copernican Revolution: From Correlationism to Immanent Absolutes
I.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The true Copernican revolution is the dissolution of the subject and the embrace of the immanent absolute: the endless, dynamic, decentered becoming of the real.
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The beat is a philosophical event - an illusion that reveals, a stability that dissolves, a unity that disappears. It is not just sound; it is ontology in motion. #PhilSky
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Beat and Flux: The Club as a Laboratory of Ontological Experience
I.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The beat is a philosophical event - an illusion that reveals, a stability that dissolves, a unity that disappears. It is not just sound; it is ontology in motion. #PhilSky
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To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky
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From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound: Christoph Cox’s "Sonic Flux" and the Via Negativa
The Problem of the Ephemeral
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October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky
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How to think sound when it resists fixation? The essay “From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound” merges Christoph Cox’s *Sonic Flux* with the *via negativa* - a radical aesthetics of withdrawal.
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How to think sound when it resists fixation? The essay “From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound” merges Christoph Cox’s *Sonic Flux* with the *via negativa* - a radical aesthetics of withdrawal.
das.ubernerden.com/ott-cox.html #PhilSky #SoundPhilosophy #Apophatics
Von der Philosophie des Klangs zur Philosophie im Klang
Christoph Cox’ <em>Sonic Flux</em> und die via negativa
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October 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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How to think sound when it resists fixation? The essay “From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound” merges Christoph Cox’s *Sonic Flux* with the *via negativa* - a radical aesthetics of withdrawal.
das.ubernerden.com/ott-cox.html #PhilSky #SoundPhilosophy #Apophatics
How to think sound when it resists fixation? The essay “From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound” merges Christoph Cox’s *Sonic Flux* with the *via negativa* - a radical aesthetics of withdrawal.
das.ubernerden.com/ott-cox.html #PhilSky #SoundPhilosophy #Apophatics
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Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
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Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
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Wider die Selbstgewissheit
Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter
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September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
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Geuss' texts refuse the consolation that comes from the idea that one has now found the "right" system. Instead, they invite us to understand thinking as a continued diagnostic practice - a practice that needs no heroes. #PhilSky
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Against Self-Assurance: Raymond Geuss as an Anti-Heroic Philosopher in the Post-Metaphysical Age
Thinking in an Age of Disillusionment
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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Geuss' texts refuse the consolation that comes from the idea that one has now found the "right" system. Instead, they invite us to understand thinking as a continued diagnostic practice - a practice that needs no heroes. #PhilSky
open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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The essay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
The essay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
Wider die Selbstgewissheit
Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter
das.ubernerden.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The essay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
The essay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
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The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality.
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky
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The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality.
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky
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Die Genese und Dominanz statischer Philosophie im abendländischen Denken
Eine historisch-systematische Analyse
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September 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality.
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky
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The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality.
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/haferkrug-st...
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The preoccupation with unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality is not a universal feature of human thought but a historically contingent development that has shaped (and distorted) the path of Western philosophy, science, and culture. #Philsky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
The Static and the Fluid: A Review of Giorgina Haferkrug’s „Die Genese und Dominanz statischer Philosophie im abendländischen Denken“
The Weight of Tradition
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September 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The preoccupation with unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality is not a universal feature of human thought but a historically contingent development that has shaped (and distorted) the path of Western philosophy, science, and culture. #Philsky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
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#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky
TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
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#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky
Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma
Fragen der Gegenwartsphilosophie
das.ubernerden.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
das.ubernerden.com/schulz-schat...
#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky
TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
das.ubernerden.com/schulz-schat...
#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky
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The essay asks whether AI is merely the culmination of "Gestell" - Heidegger’s concept of the world reduced to calculable resource - or if it opens unexpected pathways for human thought.
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#Heidegger #AI #PhilosophyOfTechnology #DigitalHumanities #PhilSky
The essay asks whether AI is merely the culmination of "Gestell" - Heidegger’s concept of the world reduced to calculable resource - or if it opens unexpected pathways for human thought.
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#Heidegger #AI #PhilosophyOfTechnology #DigitalHumanities #PhilSky
Heidegger und die KI
Vom Gestell zur Datenlichtung
das.ubernerden.com
September 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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The essay asks whether AI is merely the culmination of "Gestell" - Heidegger’s concept of the world reduced to calculable resource - or if it opens unexpected pathways for human thought.
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#Heidegger #AI #PhilosophyOfTechnology #DigitalHumanities #PhilSky
The essay asks whether AI is merely the culmination of "Gestell" - Heidegger’s concept of the world reduced to calculable resource - or if it opens unexpected pathways for human thought.
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#Heidegger #AI #PhilosophyOfTechnology #DigitalHumanities #PhilSky
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The digital Datenlichtung is a new kind of clearing where meaning emerges not from depth but from surface, not from essence but from interaction, and in which we are forced to confront the contingency and constructedness of our own thought and truth. #PhilSky
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Heidegger and AI: From „Gestell“ to the Clearing of Data
When Algorithms Think and Philosophers Hesitate
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September 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The digital Datenlichtung is a new kind of clearing where meaning emerges not from depth but from surface, not from essence but from interaction, and in which we are forced to confront the contingency and constructedness of our own thought and truth. #PhilSky
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1/10 A new paper by Georgina Haferkrug introduces a radical framework for an understanding of being as a dynamic, rhythmic process.
#Postmetaphysics #PhilosophyOfBecoming #Ontology #PhilSky
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#Postmetaphysics #PhilosophyOfBecoming #Ontology #PhilSky
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Rheoplegma
Eine postmetaphysische Ontologie des Werdens
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September 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
1/10 A new paper by Georgina Haferkrug introduces a radical framework for an understanding of being as a dynamic, rhythmic process.
#Postmetaphysics #PhilosophyOfBecoming #Ontology #PhilSky
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#Postmetaphysics #PhilosophyOfBecoming #Ontology #PhilSky
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"Rheoplegma" is a call to rethink our understanding of reality, to embrace its fluidity and complexity, and to approach it with curiosity and humility. open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
Review of Georgina Haferkrug - Rheoplegma: A Postmetaphysical Ontology of Becoming
The Crisis of Metaphysics and the Need for a New Ontology
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September 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"Rheoplegma" is a call to rethink our understanding of reality, to embrace its fluidity and complexity, and to approach it with curiosity and humility. open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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Music thus becomes the paradoxical answer to the silence of metaphysics: not by establishing new systems of meaning, but by making the unreconciled, the fragmentary, and the unfulfilled experiential. #PhilSky
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Between Truth and Disillusionment: Adorno’s Music as Post-Metaphysical Philosophy of Sound
Introduction: The Silence of Metaphysics and the Language of Music
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September 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Music thus becomes the paradoxical answer to the silence of metaphysics: not by establishing new systems of meaning, but by making the unreconciled, the fragmentary, and the unfulfilled experiential. #PhilSky
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1/10: The essay critically reconstructs the concept of contingency in postmetaphysical philosophy, addressing its conceptual vagueness and overextension. This paper offers a genealogy, systematics, and ethical reflection.
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#PhilSky #Contingency #Postmetaphysics
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#PhilSky #Contingency #Postmetaphysics
Kontingenz ohne Maß – Zur Unschärfe eines Schlüsselbegriffs der postmetaphysischen Philosophie
Ein Beitrag zur begrifflichen Rekonstruktion und Systematisierung
das.ubernerden.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
1/10: The essay critically reconstructs the concept of contingency in postmetaphysical philosophy, addressing its conceptual vagueness and overextension. This paper offers a genealogy, systematics, and ethical reflection.
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#PhilSky #Contingency #Postmetaphysics
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#PhilSky #Contingency #Postmetaphysics
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Contingency’s ubiquity has led to a crisis of meaning, where the term is often used more as a stylistic device than as a rigorous conceptual framework. To reclaim its analytical power, we must establish clearer boundaries for its application. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
Contingency Without Measure: On the Fuzziness of a Key Concept in Postmetaphysical Philosophy
The concept of contingency has become one of the most pervasive yet elusive ideas in contemporary thought.
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August 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Contingency’s ubiquity has led to a crisis of meaning, where the term is often used more as a stylistic device than as a rigorous conceptual framework. To reclaim its analytical power, we must establish clearer boundaries for its application. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
A negative materialism, then, would be a materialism without foundation - without a final instance, without an anthropological guarantee, without a teleological goal. It would be dialectical but not reconciliatory; critical but not doctrinaire. open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
Beyond Dialectics and Dogma: Toward a Negative Materialism
Introduction: The Crisis of Marxist Ontology
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August 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Imagine it as a spark ignited between Fichte’s rigorous exploration of the ego and the later flourishing of German Idealism.
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Shadow Light of Freedom: A Journey Through the „Älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus“
The Fragment’s Living Pulse: Unfinished Yet Potent
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August 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Imagine it as a spark ignited between Fichte’s rigorous exploration of the ego and the later flourishing of German Idealism.
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1/9: The essay offers a deep exegesis of the “oldest system program of German Idealism" as a philosophical space merging systemic ambition with aesthetic, political, theological upheaval. das.ubernerden.com/ott-aelteste... #GermanIdealism #Metaphysic #PhilSky #Hegel #Schelling #Hölderlin
Schattenlicht der Freiheit
Eine Lektüre des ältesten Systemprogramms des deutschen Idealismus
das.ubernerden.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
1/9: The essay offers a deep exegesis of the “oldest system program of German Idealism" as a philosophical space merging systemic ambition with aesthetic, political, theological upheaval. das.ubernerden.com/ott-aelteste... #GermanIdealism #Metaphysic #PhilSky #Hegel #Schelling #Hölderlin