Perhaps negativity is an indexical operation - without being what makes indexicality possible. Determinate negation is an operation of bringing about concreteness through a specific denial of the abstract - abstract space determinately denied by a point. The operation is one of specifying something, making something concrete by bringing about an address in the space where indexicals directly point at (see Indexical Propositions below in this blog). To deny something is itself pointing at something and making it determinate, concrete. To make something concrete is to detach it from anything else - 'dedetermine' in the words of Tristan Garcia; that is, specify a thing out of the assemblage of objects. Just a thought.
It is perhaps just wishful thinking that the alt-right seemingly innovative and intrepid ideas will disappear from the scene as Trump's reign comes to an end. They have their own dynamics, but certainly the experiences of the last years, including those in the pandemics, do help to wear off their bright and attractiveness. Neocameralism, what Mencius Moldbug and Nick Land with him ushered in as a model of post-democracy that relinquish important ingredients of the human security system, is one of these projects that is proving to be too grounded in the past to have any capacity to foretell anything bright beyond the democratic rusting institutions. It is little more than necropolitics - which is itself a current post-democratic alternative. Achile Mbembe finds necropolitics in the regimes were warlords take over the state-like institutions (or mimick them) to rule on the grounds of local security having no troubles killing or letting die whoever is in their path. Neocameralism pos...
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