speculative realism
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Ecology without Nature
May 16, 2012
This Is Not My Beautiful House
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Ecology without Nature
May 16, 2012
The Loss of a Garden
Oh no, I have to say goodbye to my garden. It was so good and I've always always loved gardens. Letting things grow. Not a drop of pesticide was used.
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 16, 2012
Oslo
The lecture date in Oslo is now more or less finalized: the Museum of Contemporary Art on August 19.
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Knowledge Ecology
May 16, 2012
A Review of Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell
HERE. My favorite quote from the review: For Pignarre and Stengers, at its most basic, capitalism is a social system which depoliticises decision-making practices or, as they state eloquently: “a politics that kills politics.” (15) Such depoliticisation, frequently disguised as a set of technocratic processes, tends to proceed through the production of “infernal alternatives,” or, [...]
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Ecology without Nature
May 15, 2012
OOO Class 7: Flat Ontologies (MP3, Video)
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Ecology without Nature
May 15, 2012
Synchronicity
The Prius broke down, one day before leaving for Houston!
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Digital Digs
May 15, 2012
composition's process-product problem
Mike Edwards has a provocative post on the process movement that previews a Computers and Writing presentation I hope to attend later this week. Edwards takes up networked accounts of composing, as we see in Jody Shipka and Byron Hawk,...
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 15, 2012
craziest thing I’ve seen in Egypt
This happened just 15 minutes ago. I went with a friend to dinner in the city tonight. We were headed back home, and agreed with the taxi driver’s suggestion to take the Ring Road instead of the Nile corniche, due to heavy congestion on the latter. There was a bizarrely intense auto duel on the [...]
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Ian Bogost
May 15, 2012
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
A new book in software studies — My next book is even stranger than my last. It's an entire book, 65,000+ words worth, about a single-line Commodore 64 BASIC program that is inscribed in the book's title, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. And if that isn't strange enough, I wrote the book with nine other collaborators (Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. [...]
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Ecology without Nature
May 15, 2012
The #OOO Hashtag
I pointed out to Ian Bogost earlier today that if you follow #OOO, you get all kinds of amazing things, spontaneously. Some of them, like one in a thousand, are a smart remark about us lot, but the other 1999 are wonderful examples of things: intentional objects, hates, loves, flirtations, physical objects and so on and so on. Here are just a few I pulled just now:https://twitter.com/#!/sophieepug [...]
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Ecology without Nature
May 14, 2012
"You're One Click Away from a REAL Education"
Apparently this is one of the ads that comes up when you watch the OOO class on UStream. When one of the students pointed this out, much hilarity ensued. I wish I'd still been recording.
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Ecology without Nature
May 14, 2012
Trucks!
Three huge one I think are involved in this move. The first took the Mazda today. My son Simon got to operate the hydraulic lift that elevated the van to the top level of the truck: pretty much the ideal act of a 3-year-old.
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Ecology without Nature
May 14, 2012
Romanticism 16: The Eolian Harp (MP3)
...materialism, immanence, psychology, and Spinoza, and all that jazz.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 14, 2012
AUC student poll on Presidential race
Granted, the students of the American University in Cairo are not demographically typical of Egypt as a whole. They tend to be considerably wealthier than average, speak multiple languages, and in many cases are far more well-travelled than average. Nonetheless, they’re not all that atypical of Egypt in their range of political views, and thus [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 14, 2012
on the abuse of adjectives, scare quotes, etc.
Somewhere within the past two years (it may even have been Leiter’s blog) someone said that one way to write a philosophy paper is to look for a place where someone says “obviously X is true,” and then write a paper showing that it’s neither obvious nor true. That’s not a bad idea. Calling something [...]
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ANTHEM
May 14, 2012
Everything Is Not Connected
” Everything Is Not Connected:” audio of Graham Harman’s keynote at transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2 February 2012 The idea that everything is interconnected has become a staple of intellectual life. As a related phenomenon, “contextualisation” is now the method of first resort throughout the humanities. This lecture opposes the general trend [...]
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Larval Subjects
May 14, 2012
Hasana Sharp: Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization
Peter Gratton of Philosophy in a Time of Error has a written a great review of Hasana Sharp’s Spinoza and the Politics of Naturalization. This sounds like an important book and will be among those I read for my research this summer. Thanks for the heads up Peter!
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Immanence
May 14, 2012
For the moment
Now that a very busy semester has ended, I can return to the constructive speculative-metaphysical strand of this blog, in which I work out the process-relational philosophy I’ve tentatively labelled Ecosophy-G. A suitable acronym for this project might be “pre-G” (process-relational ecosophy-G), pronounced “pree-jee,” with the “pre” also indicating that t [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 14, 2012
the difference between my Lovecraft book and my earlier Lovecraft article
Ran across this reposted comment on ligotti.net: “Quote Originally Posted by gveranon A new book by Graham Harman entitled Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy is scheduled to be published September 28, according to Harman’s blog. I suspect this book has some relation to Harman’s “On the Horror of Phenomenology: Lovecraft and Husserl” which appeared in [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 14, 2012
why not to put two spaces after a period
Typesetters will definitely hate you if you do. Explanation HERE. And the article is right about the stubbornness of people who think it’s two spaces. As an editor it’s sometimes like talking to a brick wall, telling people to use only one space when they’re sure you are wrong. However, the mistake isn’t as inexplicable [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
May 14, 2012
Trending on the on NYTimes web site
#1 most emailed article: Can a nine year old be a psychopath? #3 most emailed article: Capitalists and Other Psychopaths. Combining them, I guess, and you get warning signs for psychopathology such as your child reading Ayn Rand, refusing to do a lemonade stand since the “opportunity costs are too high,” and preferring cash gifts over [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 14, 2012
old article now available online
I’ve received several requests over the years for my article “Aesthetics as First Philosophy: Levinas and the Non-Human.” It was published in 2007 in Naked Punch, a London cultural magazine to which few academic libraries subscribe. Thanks to the kind permission of the Naked Punch editors, I am now able to post the article online, [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Ecology without Nature
May 13, 2012
Graham Harman: "Everything Is Not Connected" (MP3)
Nice title Graham!
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Ecology without Nature
May 13, 2012
This Is a Good Adrian Paragraph
From his #c21nonhuman wrapup:"I heard rumors repeatedly of a blogosphere ravenously watching and waiting for the two camps to come to blows, to have some kind of showdown. While that never happened, courageous voices poked their heads to say “hey!” from time to time when they saw openings for a deepened mutual engagement. The “heys” can easily be misinterpreted: “why are we fighting?” can sound li [...]
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
May 13, 2012
Review of Sharp’s Politics of Renaturalization
Is on the Society and Space open site here. (It’s a longer review–near 3,000 words): What Sharp argues for is a “politics of renaturalization”. This surely is her most controversial claim, given the ways in which, throughout the era of the regimes of the biopolitical, nature has been used as the nom de guerre of the [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 13, 2012
Green Onions
The band’s most famous song.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 13, 2012
Booker T. and the MG’s playing a party in 1968
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 13, 2012
Duck Dunn dies in his sleep in Tokyo
Pretty fresh news story. Saddened by the dead of the bass player for Booker T. and the MG’s, studio band for Stax Records in the 1960′s and the composers of countless memorable grooves. Dunn is second from right. Drummer Al Jackson, at far left, died back in about 1975 in a senseless shooting incident.
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Larval Subjects
May 12, 2012
Paths
A couple months ago I wrote a post on Marx’s triad of production, consumption, and distribution.. When investigating “societies”, is in terms of production. Not only must societies be produced (they don’t come ready-made), but social subjects must be produced (beings that identify themselves as members of the assemblage and who are identified as members [...]
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Digital Digs
May 12, 2012
composing the hominid ecology of the future classroom
I largely agree with Levi Bryant's recent post on hominid ecology. I'm not sure the term will catch on, but his Latourian observations about the intermixing of the natural and the social/cultural make sense to me and I think resonate...
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Algorithm and Contingency
May 12, 2012
Is there such a thing as a mundane object? “Art at large” and the counter-factual objet trouvé.
Thats the title of an essay I’ve written for a pamphlet collection of essays – it alludes to some missed confrontations between Greenberg and Duchamp. The pamphlet in question will be distributed in the exhibition ‘Field Static : A Group Show about the Object‘ curated by the wonderful duo of Devin King and Caroline Picard [...]
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Ian Bogost
May 11, 2012
Royalty Rate Reset
A question for authors... — I'll admit it, I don't usually read my book royalty reports. Sometimes I look at the total sales, but the rest is too complex and detailed to bother with. I deposit the checks. But today I received one and noticed something that I'd never really thought about before. A bit of background. Most book contracts are insanely complicated in their specification of royalt [...]
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Larval Subjects
May 11, 2012
We’ll Never Do Better Than a Politician: Climate Change and Purity
Somewhere or other Latour makes the remark that we’ll never do better than a politician.  Here it’s important to remember that for Latour– as for myself –every entity is a “politician”.  Latour isn’t referring solely to those persons that we call “politicians”, but to all entities that exist.  And if Latour claims that we’ll never [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Speculative Heresy
May 11, 2012
Levi Bryant talk at Independent Colleges Dublin
Independent Colleges Dublin presents Professor Levi R. Bryant (Collin College, Texas, USA) ‘Two Ontologies: Posthumanism and Lacan’s Graph of Sexuation’ With responses from Paul J. Ennis and Michael O’Rourke 2pm-4pm, Tuesday July 3 2012, Independent Colleges Dublin, 60-63 Dawson Street, … Continue reading →
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Larval Subjects
May 11, 2012
Some Remarks on Ontology and Politics
I’m in the middle of grading, so my remarks here will be brief.  I wanted, however, to draw attention to Christian Thorne’s recent post “To the Political Ontologists“.  Thorne raises an important set of questions, but I worry that he’s confusing distinct issues.  At the beginning of his post he writes: The political ontologists have [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
May 11, 2012
Levi Bryant in Dublin
Independent Colleges Dublin presentsProfessor Levi R. Bryant (Collin College, Texas, USA)‘Two Ontologies: Posthumanism and Lacan’s Graph of Sexuation’With responses from Paul J. Ennis and Michael O’Rourke2pm-4pm, Tuesday July 3 2012, Independent Colleges Dublin, 60-63 Dawson Street, Dublin 2Abstract: Initially it would seem that Lacan and posthumanism make uncomfortable bedfellows. Posthumani [...]
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Archive Fire
May 11, 2012
Goldman Sachs is a Financial Terrorist Organization
Goldman Sachs is an organization of financial terrorists who have co-opted the American government. They have extorted the U.S congress, emptied the treasury coffers and financed the exploitation of people and markets all over this planet. They contribute nothing but fraud and destruction to the project of civilization. Why are Americans still putting up with this company?The Goldma [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 10, 2012
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects
It’s the title of a fantastic looking new volume edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and is published by Oliphaunt Books (itself an imprint of Punctum Books). I am including the book’s description below, but I encourage readers to visit the official website for a downloadable PDF and more information about the authors (there’s even mention of my [...]
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Larval Subjects
May 09, 2012
Hominid Ecology
From this moment forward I’m going to make a concerted effort to abandon the terms “society” and “culture”, replacing “society” instead with “hominid ecology” (unless I or someone else comes up with a better term that contains the term “ecology” in it).  There are a few reasons for such a move.  First, as Latour has [...]
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Larval Subjects
May 09, 2012
The Democracy of Objects to Dance
This is absolutely amazing.  Based on Tammy Lu’s cover art for The Democracy of Objects, choreographer Masha Gurina has composed a dance.  Here are the sketches.  Absolutely gorgeous!  What a wonderful example of the phenomenon of translation!
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Knowledge Ecology
May 09, 2012
Plants 􏰀 Being 􏰀 Metaphysics
What does metaphysics have to do with plants? What can this group of heterogeneous beings, as different from one another as a stalk of wheat and an oak tree, tell us about Being ‘‘as such and as a whole,’’ let alone about resisting the core metaphysical values of presence and identity that the totality of [...]
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Archive Fire
May 09, 2012
Speculation and Confronting the Real
"It is no longer thought that determines the object, whether through representation or intuition, but rather the object that seizes thought and forces it to think it, or better, according to it. As we have seen, this objective determination takes the form of a unilateral duality whereby the object thinks through the subject." — Ray Brassier, Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction, p 149Someti [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 08, 2012
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Filed under: Art, Ecology
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Larval Subjects
May 08, 2012
Social Constructivism Again: What SR Means to Me
One of my worries about the new turn towards realism is that it will end up washing away all of the valuable social critiques that arose out of Marxist thought, the early Frankfurt school, structuralist, post-structuralist, feminist, queer, and race theory.  In particular, I worry that situating these discussions abstractly as debates between monolithic positions [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 08, 2012
CFP: Ecopoetics
Call for Papers: Conference on Ecopoetics February 22-24, 2013 University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) Contact and submissions e-mail: ecopoetics.conference@gmail.com Deadline for panel and individual paper proposals: October 1, 2012 What is ecopoetics? What representational strategies and sociopolitical commitments might characterize this practice? How might we periodize ecopoetics and [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 08, 2012
CFP: Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference
NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE, AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE University of British Columbia – Robson Square Vancouver, Canada 13-14 January 2013 http://techandsoc.com/conference-2013/call-for-papers/ The Technology Conference is interdisciplinary in scope, and is unique in its focus on the relationships between technology, knowledge, and society. Given its role in the rece [...]
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Larval Subjects
May 07, 2012
Worries About Materialism: A Response to a Friend
Over at Struggle Forever, my friend Jeremy has expressed worries about materialism, instead opting for the broader term “realism”. When I remarked on how I believe my variant of materialism as well as the work of the new materialists can allay these concerns, he responded as follows: my objection is really only semantic and practical [...]
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Ian Bogost
May 07, 2012
Rocks are Rocks
Response to "Aliens, but definitely not as we know them" — I received a great email response to my recent New Scientist column on alien phenomenology. I thought I'd share a part of it anonymously just because it felt so shareworthy. Rocks are rocks. They are rocks in relation to humans, and they are rocks in relation to birds and they are rocks in relation to anything else that turns up such [...]
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Archive Fire
May 07, 2012
The Himalayas
One of my mentors during my time in academia was a brilliant teacher, anthropologist and Hindu religion scholar who often dazzled us with stories of his diverse travels in Asia. He is an interesting and deeply knowledgeable man. Of his many tales none were more amazing than those dealing with his experiences traveling in and through the Himalayan mountains in Tibet.Below is a BBC documentary looki [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 06, 2012
Figure/Ground Interviews Eric McLuhan (Updated: Vote for Figure/Ground Communications)
HERE. Eric McLuhan discusses coining the term “media ecology,” a phrase I believed was attributable to Neil Postman. As recently as yesterday I stated that Neil Postman created the term, but this seems incorrect as he can only be credited for popularizing it. There is also a great discussion on why the McLuhans’ tetrad can [...]
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