Papers by Eugene A Clayton Jr
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2022
This paper challenges traditional approaches to understanding boredom, typically conceptualized a... more This paper challenges traditional approaches to understanding boredom, typically conceptualized as either a physiological, existential, or ethical phenomenon, by insisting upon its historico-materiality. It critically examines as a false dialectic the ideology that positions entertainment as the abstract immediate and boredom as the negative concrete. I contend that boredom must not be conceived merely as a subjective, irrational experience but rather as an objective phenomenon produced by capitalist rationality. The paper concludes by adducing concrete examples from various art forms of a true dialectic of boredom.
Breaking with Aristotle's Physics, Kant effects a theoretical reconception of teleology. It is th... more Breaking with Aristotle's Physics, Kant effects a theoretical reconception of teleology. It is this paper's contention that the truth of the Kantian conception of teleology as 'a purposiveness of nature in behalf of our faculty for cognizing it' is not that of being a solution to Hume's problem of induction or the condition for the possibility of subjective cognition of the empirical, but that it is a theoretical means of the subjective domination over the objective. A materialist reading of Hegel's criticism of Kant's antinomy of teleological judgment in the Science of Logic is then proposed. Finally, the non-teleological nature of capital is demonstrated.
The Fade Out: Metaphysics and Dialectics in Wagner, 2020
This article is a critique of the failure of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. It considers this ... more This article is a critique of the failure of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. It considers this as a metaphysical problem rather than an aesthetic or formal one. The article, considering Wagner's inheritance from Haydn, claims him as the first composer of the culture industry. This will lead the author to conclusions regarding a gendered Das Unheimlich, the distinction between technology and technique, and the philosophy of aesthetics.
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Papers by Eugene A Clayton Jr