A philosophical movement can develop its ideas through the blog medium rather than print

Evidence

Yet blogs continue to do things that can’t be done anywhere else: look at the way that Speculative Realism has propagated through blogs. Originally coined as term of convenience for the work of the philosophers Ray Brassier, Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant and Quentin Meillassoux, Speculative Realism now has an online unlife of its own. This isn’t just commentary on existing philosophical positions; it’s a philosophy that is actually happening on the web. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2055

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Speculative Realism as a term coined for Brassier, Harman, Grant and Meillassoux that outgrew its origin.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: did Speculative Realism’s web-mediated propagation actually change its philosophical content, or only its reach?
• XREF: connects to: Social movements generate theory rather than merely applying it; Social movements and historical conjunctures generate theoretical moments rather than merely consuming them — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 251; Cheap online expression fragments rather than empowers radical politics — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 24

Broader Connections

• Social movements generate theory rather than merely applying it #expands (0.75)
• Social movements and historical conjunctures generate theoretical moments rather than merely consuming them #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 251
• Cheap online expression fragments rather than empowers radical politics #complicates (0.72) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 24