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Ecology without Nature
May 23, 2013
Environmentality (MP3)
This was a "masterclass." Nicholas Royle opened the discussion by asking what I thought of the notion of "mastery." Wow! There thus devolved an enormous excursus on this issue that blended strangely nicely into the discussion of weird environmental poetics...
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ANTHEM
May 22, 2013
Thomas Sheehan on Heidegger and technology
Thomas Sheehan on Heidegger and technology Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford and specializes in contemporary European philosophy his books include: Martin Heidegger, Logic: The Question of Truth (trans., 2007); Becoming Heidegger (2007); Edmund Husserl: Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Encounter with Heidegger (1997); Karl Rahner: The Philosophical [...]
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Archive Fire
May 22, 2013
London 1927 / 2010
In 1927, pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene produced "The Open Road", a journey through Britain filmed with a specially-devised colour film process. The film has been computer enhanced by the British Film Institute.The video below is an attempt to recreate the London scenes from the film as they appear in 2010:via patcalutube
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Immanence
May 22, 2013
Stalking the book…
Teaching my film course (especially in its current rendition as “Ecology Film Philosophy”) and the book that goes with it (Ecologies of the Moving Image, which will be publicly available in July) — and especially teaching the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker, which serves as a sort of template for the book — makes me feel [...] Related posts:Stalking the cinema stalking the [...]
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Intra-Being
May 22, 2013
Complicating the composition of a ‘we’
This post is a response to a comment from dmf on my previous post (here) that grew big enough to become a post in its own right. Thanks dmf for the good questions! OK. Accelerationists aside (for now)… How does … Continue reading →
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Digital Digs
May 22, 2013
general education and user experience
Yesterday xBox announced its new console. I watched a few minutes of the video as I am a little interested in how these technologies imagine themselves (or at least how they market that imagination). You can go watch it if…
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ANTHEM
May 22, 2013
The Only Emergency is the Lack of Emergency, Tim Morton
The Only Emergency is the Lack of Emergency, Tim Morton Reflections on Creativity in the Anthropocene
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Ecology without Nature
May 22, 2013
Reflections on Creativity in the Anthropocene (MP3)
Sussex University is incredible and Lewes is incredible and Nicholas Royle is incredible. And the Q&A was incredible!
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Intra-Being
May 22, 2013
From axioms and acceleration to indigenous cosmopolitics
I managed to get Cosmopolitics II back from a friend the other day and was led to revisit the last book in the series: The Curse of Tolerance. In the meanwhile, those sections of the interweb I frequent have been … Continue reading →
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 22, 2013
speaking of Garcia’s article
Come to think of it, this may be the first appearance of Tristan Garcia’s philosophical work in English (some of his fiction has already been translated). He’s really good, and this piece is just a teaser for next year’s appearance of the whole of Form and Object with Edinburgh University Press.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 22, 2013
exchange with Garcia now published
parrhesia issue 16 is now available. It contains Tristan Garcia’s article about my philosophy (translated capably as ever by Mark Allan Ohm), followed by my response. You can also find a Quentin Meillassoux essay on Badiou and Mallarmé, along with other promising material. The issue can be accessed HERE.
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Larval Subjects
May 21, 2013
Nature and Culture
In response to my last post, Lester asks a set of good questions. ive been reading your blog with some curiosity for a while now, and would like to ask you a couple of questions, some related directly to this article, some more general that touch on other themes and ideas you have written about […]
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Larval Subjects
May 21, 2013
The Conundrums of Pluralism
Over at Three Pound Brain, Scott Bakker has an interesting post up discussing the conundrums and challenges of pluralism (and I assume that all of us want to advocate some form of pluralism).  Pluralism must be in the air lately, as I’ve been thinking about it myself all week.  The question that’s been haunting me […]
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ANTHEM
May 21, 2013
Stengers&Haraway, on Concepts, Cosmopolitics and Reconstituting Worlds
Stengers&Haraway, on Concepts, Cosmopolitics and Reconstituting Worlds audio recordings and notes via friend of the blog and Knowledge-Ecologist Adam Robbert http://knowledge-ecology.com/2013/05/21/isabelle-stengers-and-donna-haraway-sawyer-seminar-notes/    
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 21, 2013
sudden New York appearance
I’ll be speaking at Egan Frantz’s show at the Tilton Gallery, 8 E 76th Street, New York, on May 30. I believe it will be a public event. Once there’s something on the web about this, I’ll post a link. On October 15, 2010, the Tilton Gallery hosted a joint appearance by Badiou and Žižek, […]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 21, 2013
Isabelle Stengers and Donna Haraway Sawyer Seminar Audio
Isabelle Stengers Lecture Part 1: Isabelle Stengers Lecture Part 2:   Donna Haraway Response and Q & A: Filed under: Actor-Networks and Cosmopolitics, Ecology, Philosophy, Process Philosophy Tagged: Alfred North Whitehead, Animism, Bruno Latour, Cosmopolitics, Donna Haraway, Ecology, Gilles Deleuze, Isabelle Stengers, Political Ontology, Rhizomes, SF
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Knowledge Ecology
May 21, 2013
Isabelle Stengers and Donna Haraway Sawyer Seminar Notes
Isabelle Stengers Cosmopolitics and reconstituting worlds; Concrete political clashes between worlds; 1995 majority of French population believes the future of their children to be worse than their own; the end of the trust in progress; Globalization; sacrifice for competition; Political Ontology; civilizing modern practices What are concepts good for? Science wars—scientists and critical thinkers [...]
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Ecology without Nature
May 21, 2013
This Today
Gil Sans! And very good design.
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ANTHEM
May 21, 2013
Kate Darling: Robot Ethics
Find out more at: http://13.re-publica.de/node/5040 Kate Darling | http://about.me/katedarling | http://twitter.com/grok_NoneNone
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Archive Fire
May 20, 2013
How To Destroy Angels: Welcome Oblivion (Full Album)
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Ecology without Nature
May 20, 2013
How to Assess the Classical/Quantum Boundary
Does it even exist? Here is a thought about it.
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Digital Digs
May 20, 2013
Levi Bryant’s Dark Ontology
Levi has been on one of his prolific blogging tears again, including a couple posts listing axioms for a dark ontology (here and here). You can read through them all of course, but here are the ones that interest me…
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 20, 2013
2008 article on DeLanda
It looks like someone has posted my 2008 article on Manuel DeLanda, HERE. I have no idea whether it’s authorized or not, but it’s out there. This was originally a lecture I gave at Goldsmiths in April 2007, a week or so before the inaugural Speculative Realism gathering, at the invitation of Alberto Toscano.
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ANTHEM
May 20, 2013
Simondon: Being and Technology
Simondon: Being and Technology This collection of essays, including one by Simondon himself, outlines the central tenets of Simondon’s thought, the implication of his thought for numerous disciplines and his relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and Canguilhem. Contributors: Miguel de Beistegui, Elizabeth Grosz, Anne Sauvagnargues, Bernard Stiegler, Igor Krtolica, Jean-Hugues B [...]
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inthesaltmine
May 20, 2013
Coro-nations: The Crowning Ultimatum of Truth
DANGER, DANGER! In brief story of the salt mine (see here), everybody has their “duty” to perform. That is, we are all fellow laborers here, each facing roughly the same dangers – say, of injury, imminent collapse, flooding, or monoxide poisoning – despite our differing tasks. As such, we each have our own relatively unique experience and perspective [...]The post Coro-nati [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
May 19, 2013
Another reaction to my AH Paper on Meillassoux
Here. My quick gloss on my own argument (which Atheology nicely tries to sketch out), without going to the specific ... Continue reading
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ANTHEM
May 19, 2013
Taking time to dwell with Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair is a leading writer, filmmaker, poet and psychogeographer, renowned for his walks in the borderlands of cities, derelict sites and urban redevelopments. His solitary walks in Middlesbrough and Hartlepool were the focus of a public talk at mima. Sinclair previously walked the M25 to write London Orbital, and his new book, Ghost Milk, […]
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Ecology without Nature
May 19, 2013
Mark Payne
One of the great benefits of being in Chicago was to have hung out just now with Mark Payne, a classics scholar and old and rekindled friend. We used to live adjacent to one another in New Buildings 1 at Magdalen College. He is a very very smart guy. And a very very funny guy. It turns out we are both fans of Joe Wenderoth, the Ali G of agonized laughter. And we both think about ecology. Symposium [...]
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Ecology without Nature
May 19, 2013
Concentric Temporalities
Concentric Temporalities
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ANTHEM
May 19, 2013
Marketing Heidegger?
Marketing Heidegger? “Being and Time is a difficult read. But for one business consultant  Heidegger’s classic holds plentiful clues to understanding the ‘deeper’ reality of marketplace behavior  which many modern firms have failed to grasp.  Today, how to break out of that Cartesian rut, and learn to love Heidegger for fun and a little more profit.” Professor […]
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Digital Digs
May 19, 2013
MLA and open scholarly communication
Earlier this week, Kathleen Fitzpatrick presented a statement to the National Academy of Sciences on the MLA’s position on public access to scholarly work. I was particularly interested in this line: we may in coming years operate under a model…
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
May 18, 2013
Dark Ecologies responds to my piece in Analecta Hermeneutica
Here. I don’t have anything to add, except to say this is why I’m trying to keep my publications more ... Continue reading
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Ecology without Nature
May 18, 2013
The World Has Already Ended
Isao Hashimoto, visualization of every nuclear detonation since 1945.
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
May 18, 2013
New Analecta Hermeneutica is Out
The theme is Continental philosophies of religion, and there are many outstanding pieces in issue. I have two articles, one ... Continue reading
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Ecology without Nature
May 18, 2013
Iterability and the Local
We haven't got a clue, have we?
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Ecology without Nature
May 18, 2013
Exploding Foam
Why agrilogistics might not be the best, part 53432.
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Intra-Being
May 18, 2013
Hypocrisy and anti-capitalist struggle
We live in a time where the charge of hypocrisy is almost impossible to avoid – particularly – but not exclusively – for those engaged in struggles against capitalism and ecological disaster. As a middle class person (a professional, part … Continue reading →
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Digital Digs
May 17, 2013
movement to wordpress
After ten years, I’ve moved from typepad to wordpress. I won’t bore you with the story, but I’m still working on migrating my disqus-based comments. Hopefully that will all be worked out this weekend.
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ANTHEM
May 17, 2013
Decline of the Skills Society, Richard Sennett
His scholarship focuses on social inequality, the effects of urban growth on the individual, and the interconnection between authority, modernism and public life. Professor Sennett has been described as “one of the great urban enthusiasts of our age”.
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Ecology without Nature
May 17, 2013
History and Politics of the Anthropocene: Alison Bashford
“Malthus and the Anthropocene”Author of Imperial Hygiene Life on Earth (in press); on geopolitics and world population problem I was taken with the interest in scale for historians. It’s not so prevalent in history. But if it’s common for historians to talk about past as a foreign country, the deep past is another planet!  Why the anxiety? Consensus of 1800 or 1950--this past is not another p [...]
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 17, 2013
my 10-year-old Cairo newspaper article on Latour
Just ran across this again. I wrote this article in December 2003 for Cairo’s Al-Ahram Weekly, to help promote Bruno Latour’s visit that same month to the American University in Cairo. Article online HERE.
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Knowledge Ecology
May 16, 2013
Isabelle Stengers and Donna Haraway: Sawyer Seminar Lecture
Yours truly will be in attendance for this event: Time: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Location: Multipurpose Room: Student Community Center Speaker: Isabelle Stengers, Free University of Brussels Interlocutor: Donna Haraway, UC Santa Cruz This is part of the 2012-2013 John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures “Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues About the Reconstitution of Worlds” […]
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Larval Subjects
May 16, 2013
God and Mytho-Poetic Thought
Recently, with some reference to “weak theology” lurking beneath the surface, I’ve been hearing a lot of folks defending religion on the grounds that it’s really some form of mytho-poetic thought and not to be taken as a set of ontological statements about the world.  The idea seems to be that those who reject religion […]
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Ian Bogost
May 16, 2013
The Electronic Book, circa 1995
The past and future novelty of digital publishing — It's easy to forget these things, so here's the description for the electronic "hypertext edition" of rhetorician Richard Lanham's collection of essays, The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. As Publishers Weekly wrote, "And, yes, the book is available in electronic form; as the first in the Chicago Expanded Book series, [...]
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Larval Subjects
May 16, 2013
Explanatory Reduction versus Ontological Reduction
In a comment, my friend Matt Brown raises some interesting points about science and my criticism of Latour’s principle of irreduction. Me:  Because to explain is to reduce. Matt:  This is wrong from a philosophy of science point of view, or at least, an oversimplification. It is noteworthy that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article […]
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ANTHEM
May 16, 2013
Deleuze, Control Society, Computers by Alexander R Galloway
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Larval Subjects
May 15, 2013
Meaning and Purpose Again
Bill Rose Thorn has a nice post up responding to my theses on Dark Ontology and, in particular, my claim that being is without purpose or meaning.  A couple of folks have misconstrued what I’m saying on this point, so it’s worth making a couple words of clarification.  What does it mean to say that […]
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Larval Subjects
May 15, 2013
Latour’s Principle of Irreduction
If I were to name a single thing that I most regret in all that I have written in since 2011, it would be my defense of Latour’s principle of irreduction in my article entitled “The Ontic Principle” in The Speculative Turn.  Having reflected on this principle in the intervening years, I can’t help but […]
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Larval Subjects
May 15, 2013
The Contemporary Renaissance
In response to my post on dark ontology, a friend remarks: I find these propositions intriguing but I have a few questions I would like you to address if you can.  You stated in two of the responses that you’re using ‘axiom’ not as ‘self-evident truth’ but as ‘constraint or rule w/in types of math’ […]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 15, 2013
Breakaway Brazil dribbler killed
This is a really sad story. 42-year-old Richard Swanson, who was planning to dribble a soccer ball from Washington state to Brazil for the World Cup has been struck and killed by a vehicle in Oregon. The website for his adventure is still up, HERE. His progress, marked on a map, is ominously halted in […]
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