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The object-oriented uprising continues. This time, it can be found in a sizable article in the November/December 2009 issue Art Papers Magazine. The piece stretches across eight pages or so (alas, only in print), covering contemporary sculpture and its relation to object-oriented philosophy. Often incorporating the detritus of everyday life, that is, appropriated bits and pieces in loosely-cobbled arrangements, such… read more

Over at the Digital Media and Learning blog, Liz Losh writes a nice introduction to the “emerging theory” of object-oriented philosophy. Her post discusses the surprise popularity of objects at last month’s Digital Arts and Cultures conference, including very prominent mention in Kate Hayles opening plenary. Losh then asks how object-oriented teaching might work at a practical level, offering some… read more

In a reflection on all the recent hubbub about the sordid state of the humanities and the recently proposed possibility of a cure in the form of the “digital humanities,” Cathy Davidson offers the following lament: When I think of what the humanties offer…it is astonishing to me (and tragic) that we are not central. We are very, very good… read more

As we do most years, we opened Christmas crackers—those little cardboard tubes that pop when pulled, revealing small toys, paper crowns, and jokes. I thought I’d share a particularly brilliant joke from one cracker, one that made me think of object-oriented philosophy as much as it did Christmas (even if it mistakes an object for its attributes). Here goes: Why… read more

Thanks to the work of Paul John Ennis, a graduate student at University College, Dublin, there is now a new online, open-access journal for speculative realism: Speculations: The Journal of Object Oriented Ontology. Here’s a blurb about the project: Speculations is the journal of object oriented ontology. We hope to provide a forum for the exploration of object oriented ontology,… read more

Recently I was speaking to a writer about my recent work. She’s doing a feature for a local magazine on creativity research and design practice in the region. I’ve been fortunate to get a lot of press over the years, and it’s become increasingly important to me to find ways to make my work comprehensible and applicable to a general… read more

The Society for Science Literature and the Arts annual conference is about to start up here in Atlanta. The program is online, and the SLSA folks have updated it with the abstract for my Friday evening plenary. I thought I’d reproduce it here for those of you who are interested in such things. In recent years, a small cadre of… read more

Feb. 21, 1972, Mao’s residence, the first meeting between Nixon and Mao, as arranged by Kissinger. Nixon: I have read the chairman’s poems and speeches, and I knew he was a professional philosopher. (The Chinese laugh.) Mao (looking at Kissinger): He is a doctor of philosophy? Nixon: He is a doctor of brains. Mao: What about asking him to be… read more