Virgilio A Rivas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virgilio A Rivas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virgilio A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivas |
| SIGNATURE | RIVAS V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Polytechnic University of the Philippines |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6728-8622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Towards a Philosophy of Metacrisology
Here we develop the concept of metacrisology – a way of thinking shaped by crisis that examines the nature of crisis itself – by engaging with philosophers in the context of climate change, technological acceleration and symbolic misery. Beginning with a traumatic childhood experience of cosmic finitude, we reconceive crisis not merely as a path toward inevitable disaster but, in Kostas Axelos’s Heraclitean sense, as an improbable imperative that…
Bernard Stiegler and aesthetic technê
This essay discusses the aesthetic potential within Bernard Stiegler’s concept of technics, particularly its nascent or preactual form of realism. This realism fosters a sense of spontaneity, crucial to a modal engagement with time, being, and history in the face of contemporary planetary enframing. By critically appraising Stiegler’s framework, the essay proposes an aesthetics of care that aligns with restoring art’s primordial inhumanism. This …
Posthumanism in ecofeminist literature: Transgressions in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
This paper establishes a critical place of conversation between an ecofeminist type of contravening patriarchal and masculine-centered discourse and posthumanist attempts to problematize boundary-setting systems assembled around the conceit of speciesism and human privilege. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun (2021) supplies this conversational groundwork centered around the novel's main protagonist, Klara, an Artificial Friend (AF). The li…
Thinking destructively with aesthetics
The essay explores a hermeneutic reading of nature that expands the Kantian theory of aesthetics beyond the need for beauty to support cognition’s subjective interest. As in Kant’s third Critique, reason’s subjective interest, which refers to how the manifold can be held together by the unity of transcendental apperception, grounds nature's purposiveness in moral intelligence. By improvising on Kant’s aesthetics, as Schelling did in German Ideali…
Anti-Oedipus confronts a familiar people: On the plasticity of the celibate machine
In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari saw the difficulty of disentangling the question of Spinoza and, later, of Reich from the very limit of a system of representation by which they mean Oedipus. As A Thousand Plateaus would emphasize later, this limit brings out the question of the desire for democracy (‘democracies are majorities’). It desires Oedipus. In What Is Philosophy?, the limit question (Oedipus) gave way to the concept of a people to …
Stiegler and the task of tertiary retention: On the amateur as an educational subject
The paper attempts to examine what is by all accounts a self-styled approach to contemporary existence, borrowing from Claire Colebrook’s 2017 essay on Bernard Stiegler’s so-called ‘curious problem of range’. Subsequently, we tackle Yuk Hui's interpretive reading of Stiegler's analysis of retentional digitality. Hui promotes the idea of archival metaphysics to overlay Stiegler’s concept of tertiary retention with tertiary protention. However, Sti…
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Stiegler and the task of tertiary retention: On the amateur as an educational subject
The paper attempts to examine what is by all accounts a self-styled approach to contemporary existence, borrowing from Claire Colebrook’s 2017 essay on Bernard Stiegler’s so-called ‘curious problem of range’. Subsequently, we tackle Yuk Hui's interpretive reading of Stiegler's analysis of retentional digitality. Hui promotes the idea of archival metaphysics to overlay Stiegler’s concept of tertiary retention with tertiary protention. However, Sti…
Anti-Oedipus confronts a familiar people: On the plasticity of the celibate machine
In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari saw the difficulty of disentangling the question of Spinoza and, later, of Reich from the very limit of a system of representation by which they mean Oedipus. As A Thousand Plateaus would emphasize later, this limit brings out the question of the desire for democracy (‘democracies are majorities’). It desires Oedipus. In What Is Philosophy?, the limit question (Oedipus) gave way to the concept of a people to …
Posthumanism in ecofeminist literature: Transgressions in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
This paper establishes a critical place of conversation between an ecofeminist type of contravening patriarchal and masculine-centered discourse and posthumanist attempts to problematize boundary-setting systems assembled around the conceit of speciesism and human privilege. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun (2021) supplies this conversational groundwork centered around the novel's main protagonist, Klara, an Artificial Friend (AF). The li…
Thinking destructively with aesthetics
The essay explores a hermeneutic reading of nature that expands the Kantian theory of aesthetics beyond the need for beauty to support cognition’s subjective interest. As in Kant’s third Critique, reason’s subjective interest, which refers to how the manifold can be held together by the unity of transcendental apperception, grounds nature's purposiveness in moral intelligence. By improvising on Kant’s aesthetics, as Schelling did in German Ideali…
Towards a Philosophy of Metacrisology
Here we develop the concept of metacrisology – a way of thinking shaped by crisis that examines the nature of crisis itself – by engaging with philosophers in the context of climate change, technological acceleration and symbolic misery. Beginning with a traumatic childhood experience of cosmic finitude, we reconceive crisis not merely as a path toward inevitable disaster but, in Kostas Axelos’s Heraclitean sense, as an improbable imperative that…
Bernard Stiegler and aesthetic technê
This essay discusses the aesthetic potential within Bernard Stiegler’s concept of technics, particularly its nascent or preactual form of realism. This realism fosters a sense of spontaneity, crucial to a modal engagement with time, being, and history in the face of contemporary planetary enframing. By critically appraising Stiegler’s framework, the essay proposes an aesthetics of care that aligns with restoring art’s primordial inhumanism. This …
Aesthetics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Digital Media and Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Beauty (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works)