Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

- Ray Brassier

Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when there is no longe…

- Ray Brassier

Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding on…

- Ray Brassier

I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death a…

- Ray Brassier

If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's…

- Ray Brassier

Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefu…

- Ray Brassier

Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but sup…

- Ray Brassier

Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also re…

- Ray Brassier

Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public good, they …

- Ray Brassier