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After Nature blog has an interesting interview from Ray Brassier: here!

In the interview he opens up that his main interest in philosophical speculation is to reconcile "Platonism with naturalism by
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"I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth..."
     - Ray Brassier


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"He proposes to radicalise critique, to convert the ideal conditioning of the representation of matter to the material conditioning of ideal representation. In the Landian apparatus, materiality is construed solely as the production of production. Transcendental materialism in its Landian version becomes a materialization of critique."
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"What is really interesting in these texts is the way in which there is an extraordinary re-elaboration of negativity, a kind of non-conceptual negativity, and these texts bristle with this kind of sublimated fury, and that’s what makes them really powerful."
     - Ray Brassier on Nick Land's Fanged Noumena


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" I endorse a ‘transcendental realism’ according to which science knows the real but the nature of this ‘real’ is not strictly speaking objectifiable. The basic idea is that we know the real through objects, but that the real itself is not an object."
      - Ray Brassier, Interview With Ray Brassier - Against an Aesthetics of Noise


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"Among the ruined temples there,
   Stupendous columns, and wild images
   Of more than man, where marble daemons watch
   The Zodiac's brazen mystery, and dead men
   Hang their mute thoughts on the mute walls around..."
        - Alastor, Percy Bysshe Shelley


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"...is there a principle of intelligibility encoded in physical reality?"
           - Ray Brassier

Ray Brassier, along with Quentin Meillassoux, Graham Harman, and Iain Hamilton Grant, is one of the foremost philosophers of contemporary Speculative Realism. He is a member of the Philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. ( Read more... )