synkar’s award for quality
note: as synkar’s highest title, the guarantee for quality selects somewhere in-between synkar’s own bias, and his experience within the tradition to select texts that his audience will benefit from reading over and against other works. works are also labelled between research and theory for better discernment. to better understand my structural preferences, visit my rating method and symbol guide.
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synkar’s guarantee for purity
note: pure theory foregrounds conceptual scaffolding, narrative continuation and speculative or abstract capacity almost exclusively over referential density, discursive or commentarial quality, or thematic context. what must a certain work accomplish to be considered pure?
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synkar’s classification as theory
note: this doesn’t signal a preference over the work, but attempts to establish a boundary between cultural research and conceptual theorizing, even if difficult (* for borderline). click the work or title to see my review. what earns the title of synkar guarantee?
what: the concept of model
type: analytic
what: the italian difference
type: polemic
what: cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials
type: fiction
what: monadology and sociology
type: narrative
what: monumental fragments
type: polemic
what: the speculative turn
type: commentary
what: writing, art and architecture
type: research
what: penumbr(a)
type: concept
synkar’s classification as research
note: this doesn’t signal a dislike of the work, but attempts to establish a boundary between cultural research and conceptual theorizing, even if difficult (* for borderline). click the work or title to see my review. what earns the title of synkar guarantee?
what: the mathematics of novelty
type: commentary
what: what is philosophy?
type: analytic
what: badiou in jamaica
type: research
what: the praxis of alain badiou
type: commentary
what: the spirit of the age
type: commentary
what: aesthetics after finitude
type: glossary
what: lacan and philosophy
type: commentary
what: prince of networks
type: commentary
what: walter benjamin and the architecture of modernity
type: commentary
what: the pace of modernity: reading with blumenberg
type: commentary
what: reading hegel
type: commentary
what: the radical critique of liberalism
type: research
what: reading the country: introduction to nomadology
type: research
what: first love: a phenomenology of the one
type: commentary
what: hegel and the logical structure of love
type: commentary
what: the charmed circle of ideology
type: criticism
what: knowledge and freedom: german idealism
type: commentary
what: the rational kernel of the hegelian dialectic
type: concept
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what: (un)willing collectives:on castoriadis
type: commentary
what: the works of gilles deleuze 53-69
type: commentary
synkar’s disavowal
note: this signals an implicit dislike of the work as a totality and not of its particular contents, decided by purely structural means rather than ethico-political sentiments. more specifically it is applied when the author’s intentions, the structure of the work, and the themes or conceptual development all contradict each other simultaneously. to better understand my structural preferences, visit my rating method and symbol guide.
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note: uncategorized works or excess material that appears too gated or suspicious to evaluate or title explicitly. also contains duds or simply works too uninteresting to me to disavow (no offense ya’ll do your thing).
what: politics, ethics and performance
what: not reading herakleitos
what: reflections on presence
what: indigenous sovereignty and the being of the occupier
what: the disjunctive logic of the world