Abstract: Subtraction is a critical method whereby a cognitively inaccessible reality is thought in terms of its inaccessibility or “subtraction” from discourse. In this essay I begin by considering the role of subtraction in Alain Badiou’s…The deconstructive event is consequently not a radical alien or Other - alien or other to what? Deconstruction unbinds the structurality that would otherwise determine alterity and ipseity, sameness and difference, because no system can tot…Each posthumanism, then, pre-empts an abstract disconnection space, unbounded by whatever Filters it removes.
Moreover, all Filters are espistemically contestable.
The Sapience Filter, to give one example, assumes that “serious” agents pa…
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