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Hesitant to do any sincere theory posting, but... If you& #39;re going to hold something up as a devastating "counterblast" to Heidegger, please at least strive to know the remotest fuck of what you& #39;re talking about. Or just don& #39;t pay any attention to him, that& #39;s fine too!
I assure you, the "atemporality" of inorganic matter is not some clever gotcha to the existential analytic. It& #39;s not like this is something he just somehow forgot to think about lol. The sections on Vorhandenheit are right there, and they& #39;re among the easiest parts of B&T o read.
Yes I posted this in bed in the dark at 2:36am while unable to sleep and gave no context at all on the reference, but essentially it was Malabou (who I do love) saying that a Heideggerian concept of being-toward-death is made obsolete by a Freudian concept of death drive.
The claim is very reminiscent to me of Brassier& #39;s chapter on Heidegger in NU (the Malabou paper and that book both came out in 2007). In both cases they miss the wider import of being-towards-death, which is less about confronting/escaping finitude and more about producing it.
I just find the spec. mat. readings of and attacks on Heidegger around that time funny in retrospect, because whereas now people tend to orient their critiques around H& #39;s fascism and the nihilism of fascism, back then they liked to critique him for not being nihilistic enough!
And it& #39;s always essentially the same critique: "Heidegger& #39;s thought (in B&T and beyond) is no more than a terrified retreat from the outside of the given (or finitude, or life, etc.), and was a natural extension of his his fascism (or his liberalism, or his occultism, etc.)."
Imo, this perennial critique is founded on a misreading
- that& #39;s how you get people acting as if being-towards death means the same as "carpe diem" or "memento mori" or some shit. (And yes, lots of actual Heideggerians, fash and liberal, encourage this reading.)
- that& #39;s how you get people acting as if being-towards death means the same as "carpe diem" or "memento mori" or some shit. (And yes, lots of actual Heideggerians, fash and liberal, encourage this reading.)
