Cologne 31-Jan-2007

Apologies for cross-postings.

A new article (in German) has just been added to the artefact inventory:

0) 'Der Wert ist ein Spiel — Marx anders denken'

'Value is a game — Thinking Marx differently', talk given at the
Philosophical Café in Wuppertal on 22 January 2007.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/wertspil.html

And once again my current artefact writings in an improved formatting
for enhanced readability.

1. An Other Beginning - Here Comes Everybody: The Joycean work of art
against the foil of Heidegger's thinking

Paper presented to the conference Heidegger und die Dichtung in Meßkirch
24-28 May 2006.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/jychdggr.html

2. Technology, Technique, Interplay: Questioning Die Frage nach der
Technik

Paper presented to the conference 4. Aussprache über die Philosophie
Martin Heideggers 01-03 June 2006 at the Bergische University in
Wuppertal, Germany.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/tchniply.html

3. Painting close to the origin
A philosophical note on how and what Jon Groom's art
work reveals.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/grmpntng.html

4. Social Power and Government - With a focus on Hobbes' political
philosophy

Thesis: the phenomenon of specifically social power, and in particular,
political social power, has not been conceived adequately in the
philosophical tradition starting with Plato and Aristotle.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/sclpwrgv.html

5. Exchange, Value, Justice

A study passing through Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx that
rethinks exchange-value in connection with the question of the justice
of so-called 'bourgeois relations of production'.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/exchvljs.html

6. The Principle of Reason and Justice -- Leaping from the ground
through Leibniz, Hegel,
Nietzsche and Heidegger to Anaximander and the groundlessness of
interplay.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/prncprsn.html

7. Questioning the Earth's Value --Including a proposal for a capitalist
carbon sink industry.

The crux of this proposal depends on seeing clearly that the concept of
ground-rent is the appropriate one for grasping the value of the Earth
under that constellation of being called capitalism.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/qstnerth.html

8. Why social justice is a specious idea

Because it obfuscates the charitable nature of social welfare, the idea
of social justice leads inevitably to an all-caring, social-totalitarian
state that dangerously interferes with the free metabolism of civil
society and undermines the independence and self-reliance of civil
society's members.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/scljstsp.html

9. Social Being, Whoness, Freedom - A Sketch

Paper as presented to the 24th North Texas Heidegger Symposium
Erde-Welt-Umwelt 8-9 April 2005 at The University of Dallas, Irving,
Texas. The thoughts here are distilled from my Social
Ontology.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/sbwhofrd.html

10. Assessing How Heidegger Thinks Power Through the History of Being

The trace of how Heidegger thinks power through the history of being can
be followed back to the concept of energeia in Aristotle's Metaphysics.
According to Heidegger, this concept is the start of the trajectory of
the being of beings cast as Wirklichkeit, actuality. Energeia is paired
metaphysically with dynamis, i.e. power, potential, capability. One such
power is the art of rhetoric, famously also investigated by Aristotle.
But what is the power of such a know-how when faced with the otherness
of the other?...
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/pwrrhtrc.html

11. Cologne Theses 03 June 2004

Theses on how Heidegger's thinking has to be extended and revamped to
cope with the phenomenon of the other human being, the as yet unfolded
fold in being covered by the 'second person',
both singular and plural.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/clgnthss.html

12. Heidegger's Restricted Interpretation of the Greek
Conception of the Political

Revised and extended version of a paper 'Heidegger's Apolitical
Conception of the Political' (see below) presented to the 22nd.
Heidegger Symposium History, Historicity and Mystery in Heidegger 30
October-02 November, 2002 University of North Texas.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/rstrpltc.html

13. 1984 Preface to Critique of Competitive Freedom and the
Bourgeois-Democratic State

This is the preface to my Ph.D. dissertation in Philosophy accepted by
the University of Sydney in 1984.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/ccfbdspf.html

14. Heidegger's Apolitical Conception of the Political

Twisting Heidegger's thinking into the 'horizontal' of social relations.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl.html

15. Casting within Enpropriation and the Leap from Standing Presence

Some observations on Heidegger's Beiträge zur
Philosophie and leave-taking from metaphysics.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/cstgenpr.html

16. Metaphysics of Feminism: A Critical Note on Judith Butler's Gender
Trouble

Today's feminist discourse claims to be situated beyond the strictures
of the metaphysics of substance. Butler's call for the subversion of
"matrices of cultural intelligibility that govern gendered life" does
not go deep enough in questioning gender.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/mtphysfm.html

17. Entwurf einer digitalen Ontologie (Draft Casting of a Digital
Ontology)

A study (in both German and English) of the digital casting of beings in
the digital age. Where do the digital beings cast before us today come
from?
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/dgtlontl.html
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/dgtlon_e.html

18. Worldsharing and Encounter: Heidegger and Lévinas

On the ontology of togetherness (Mitsein), with a critical excursus on
Lévinas' ethics of the Other as contrast.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/wrldshrg.html

19. The Quivering of Propriation: A Parallel Way to Music

In parallel to the way language makes way to language, music makes way
to music. Initially, this formula does not make much sense...
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/qvrpropn.html

20. Heidegger's Hölderlin and John Cage

English version of a paper that attempts to substitute John Cage for
Hölderlin in Heidegger's thought.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/heicagen.html

21. Heideggers Hölderlin und/and John Cage

German version of the preceding paper.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/heicagde.html

22. Capital and Technology: Marx and Heidegger

English version of a paper that crosses and entwines Marx and Heidegger
to think through the essence of technology and capitalism in a unified
way.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/capiteen.html

23. Kapital und Technik: Marx und Heidegger

German version of the preceding paper.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/kapitech.html

24. kaum ständig noch (barely still standing) - Phenomenology of
Masculinity

A treatise in German on masculinity, whose ontology is explored through
a phenomenology of whoness. A radical, genuinely philosophical
alternative to feminist discourse to date (cultural studies,
psychoanalysis, etc.) is offered.
http://home.tiscali.de/artefact/kaumstan.html

25. As - A Critical Note on D.F. Krell's 'Daimon Life'

Having it out with Krell's treatise on life and life-philosophy.
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/as_krell.html

Forthcoming: Posthumous Writings.

Good thinking!
Michael
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