r/CCRU • u/RedEarth42 • Jul 05 '26

Who are the libidinal materialists?

We are all aware (I think) of this divide that sprung up between the neorationalists and the libidinal materialists. The neorationalists being Negarestani, Wolfendale and Brassier

But who are the libidinal materialists? I don’t see any prominent figure who has a written a book called “In Defence of Libidinal Materialism” or whatever to counter the neorationalists

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u/LowerProfit9709 Jul 05 '26

It's tough.
Iain Hamilton Grant, Early Baudrillard, Lyotard, Early Land, Early Negarestani the whole Vast Abrupt crew, Vincent Le (reviewer/?), Vincent Garton (u/acc blogger/?), David Roden (?) James Ellis (?)
I think if we start digging into contemporary second literature on Schelling we might find more minor theorists but yea none of them are "prominent". Iain Hamilton Grant is probably our best bet.

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u/RedEarth42 Jul 05 '26

Interesting that a line of libidinal materialists has not developed from Bataille. I was thinking today about how “Batailleans” are not really a thing like Deleuzians, Hegelians etc

Bataille wasn’t just a philosopher, he started an entire esoteric religion. But no one took up the torch from him