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Srnicek's Risk: Response to Nick Srnicek
- Michael O'Rourke (author)
Chapter of: Speculative Medievalisms: Discography(pp. 93–101)
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| Title | Srnicek's Risk |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Response to Nick Srnicek |
| Contributor | Michael O'Rourke (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0021.1.10 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculative-medievalisms/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | O'Rourke, Michael |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2013-01-17 |
| Long abstract | In an August 2009 interview with Paul Ennis at Another Heidegger Blog Nick Srnicek, speculative heretic that he is, quite rightly asserts that, “Speculative Realism doesn’t label a single set of positions” because “the four main contributors [Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux, Iain Hamilton Grant, Ray Brassier] to it are all vastly different, and there really is no common ground.” However, I want to suggest that Srnicek’s work, at least in his contribution to our laboratory-atelier, “Abstraction and Value: The Medieval Origins of Financial Quantification,” is closest to the critically speculative position of Meillassoux in After Finitude, a book which, in the same interview, Srnicek claims is “the best diagnosis of the problems with contemporary philosophy, and argued with a clarity that proves logic, surprise and wonder don’t need to be mutually exclusive.” Srnicek himself, at least in this interview, places his work within a post-Marxist faction of Speculative Realism which is broadly interested in and united by a common aim to reassess “agency in the light of neuroscience, eliminativism, and non-philosophy” as well as a focus on the concrete technical and material aspects of political economy.” “Abstraction and Value,” however, seems to be less obviously Latourian, or Laruellian or to have anything particularly to do with the eliminativist or non-philosophical positions we can discern in his other writing (or on his blog The Accursed Share). Rather, Srnicek’s basic post-Marxist thesis, the one advanced here, that the world political system is moving toward a more medieval type of political system depends—among other things—on a speculatively financial reading of Elie Ayache's reading of Meillassoux’s After Finitude3 in The Blank Swan: The End of Probability to try to articulate what this different economic system will do to a medival political system. What we have here is a sort of critically speculative, post-Marxist understanding of the economy. This is his risk. And Ayache describes for us what this kind of creative political work might look like, might doin The Blank Swan |
| Page range | pp. 93–101 |
| Print length | 9 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |