Behind Kant's mask: deciphering the Templeton episode
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We discuss CCRU’s The Templeton Episode, exploring its implications for the Kantian subject and its relation to Lovecraft’s Yog-Sothoth. Drawing on Anna Greenspan and Nick Land, we revisit Kantian philosophy, arguing that the transcendental subject occupies a position analogous to that of the noumenon. Thus, it is argued that the transcendental can be understood as an ungraspable outside, like Lovecraft’s entities, revealing that the subject coincides with the Thing that exceeds reason.
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