[MD] Speculative Realism

[David Morey]

Hi All

Key new development in philosophy in the last few years is Speculative 
Realism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_realism

http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/what-is-speculative-realism/

Developed in response to the work of Quentin Meillassoux:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Meillassoux

http://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Finitude-Necessity-Contingency-ebook/dp/B0050HO5F4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1360846698&sr=8-1

This looks like a good development for the prospects for the MOQ.

I feel that the MOQ is a realist philosophy like SR and unlike the post 
modernism
in Continental Philosophy and American Pragmatism. And Meillassoux reopens
interest in dynamic thinking that is not exclusively dualistic or overly 
focused
on SQ at the cost of DQ. Meillassoux suggests that ontology needs to be 
rethought
and more focus put on flux, contingency, emergence and openness or DQ as the
MOQ calls it.

A key Speculative Realist text with essays by Slavoj Zizek can be downloaded 
free here:

http://re-press.org/books/the-speculative-turn-continental-materialism-and-realism/

Also please note the philosopher Chris Norris who once covered Robert Pirsig 
in his book
on Deconstruction has a keen interest in SR.

All the best
David Morey