Writing

I’m still using Twitter, for better or worse. But I realized today that I quite frequently abort my tweets before posting them, usually due either to mounting ennui or anticipatory shame. Therefore, I hereby coin the following: “To twee” is to type something into Twitter but then not post it. I considered just tweeting this, but…

As Levi has revealed, he and I are putting together a book, Object-Oriented Ontology. It will carry both the proceedings of last week’s symposium, as well as new contributions from Katherine Behar, Melanie Doherty, Katherine Hayles, and Adrian Ivakhiv. We may add at least one more contribution as well, stay tuned. The collection will be published in the Open Humanities… read more

Levi just posted a link to my Latour Litanizer, which has generated a bunch of new traffic to and reflection about the tool. Over at Effervescent Crucibles, Michael points out that the litanizer tends to bring up people quite frequently. As he observes, “it points to the fact that, because of various aspects of our way of being in the… read more

Peter Gratton was kind enough to interview me in conjunction with his realism course. You can read the interview here, on his blog Philosophy in a Time of Error. You might also want to revisit the previous interviews with Harman and Bennett. Bryant’s is coming up next. I’m at a slight disadvantage compared to Harman and Bennett, because Gratton’s questions… read more

The Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium went off without a hitch today. All of the talks were excellent, as was the discussion. In addition to local attendees from Georgia Tech, Emory, and state of Georgia institutions, we also welcomed out-of-towners from Florida, North Carolina, New York, Maryland, and more. The talks and questions were recorded, and we’ll get them online as soon… read more

Peter Gratton has been interviewing some of the authors of readings in his speculative realism class this term. The latest interview, with Jane Bennett just went online. Bennet is the author of this year’s

It’s a very busy week. I just got back from a quick trip to Los Angeles, and now I’m making the final preparations for the Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium this Friday at Georgia Tech. I hope to see you there. Despite some very reasonable concerns about the volcanic ash mess disrupting his travel, I see that Graham Harman’s flight has successfully… read more

MIT Press has put up the informational webpage for Newsgames, and the book should be appearing in the catalog and in books in print (and therefore at Amazon et al) soon enough. You can read the description on the MIT Press site, and I’ve also pasted it below. The list price is $24.95, which I’d guess will translate into a… read more

My colleague Liz Losh is organizing an event at UC Irvine next month in celebration of the opening of the Richard Rorty born-digital archives at that institution’s library. The event must have the best title in recent memory, “Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won’t.” The schedule looks great, with folks like Christine Borgman, Mark Wrathall, Iain Thompson, Steven Mailloux, and… read more

Thanks to Jan Holmevik, Cynthia Haynes for hosting me and Greg Ulmer at Clemson University last week. The occasion was a seminar and symposium on games and rhetoric, organized thanks to Victor Vitanza and his Pre/Text journal. I enjoyed lively conversation with students and faculty alike. Somehow it was the first time I’d met Ulmer, who gave a thought-provoking talk… read more