From “Naming Your Child: Guidance for Vermont Birth Certificates”, published by the Vermont Department of Health, 2009: “2) The name should use only letters, and should not include numbers (numeric characters) in it. As with other alphabets, if you want to include a number in your child’s name, you should spell it out in letters. […]
Archive for January, 2011
Naming guidelines (or, easy ways to get a phd)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Emergence
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2011 | 11 Comments »
a new fold in the fabric of things, a novel bifurcation opening onto potentials of experience heretofore unexperienced. the many become one and are increased by one. zoryán 1 23 11
Post-Cinematic Affect in the era of plasticity
Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged capitalism, critical theory, Cubitt, film, Malabou, media, science fiction, SF, Shaviro on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s probably inappropriate to review a book about four films when one has only seen one, and by far the shortest (it’s a music video), of the four. So this isn’t a review so much as an appreciation of Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect, along with some half-digested notes I made while reading it, but which […]
A world of becoming
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Connolly on January 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
William Connolly’s A World of Becoming arrived in the mail yesterday. It looks wonderful, and only two chapters appear to include material that has been previously published in any form (both very recent), which means this is all quite new. If I had the time and the energy, I would try to organize a cross-blog […]
End of an ear…
Posted in Philosophy, tagged object-oriented philosophy, OOO on January 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve added a menu of links to some of the key posts on this blog in process-relational theory: see “P-R Theory 101” in the right-hand column (scroll down). This is a somewhat random sample, and readers with the patience for it can find much more by following other links and tags on this blog. A […]
Paradigms, productivity, perspective
Posted in Blog stuff, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged object-oriented philosophy on January 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Levi Bryant responds to my last post (and by extension to Chris Vitale’s) here. I agree with him that he and Graham Harman have made worthy efforts at addressing concerns that are central to process-relational philosophical communities (e.g., in Bryant’s Difference and Givenness and in the books of Harman’s that I’ve lauded on this blog); […]
Vitale throws down the gauntlet…
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged object-oriented philosophy on January 14, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Chris Vitale has “thrown down the gauntlet,” as he puts it, to the object-oriented ontologists to finally respond in a satisfactory way to process-relational critiques. (I admire his Sicilian bravado!) Chris is obviously writing in a somewhat feverish mode, blogging at the speed of thought rather than in the tempered and cautious tone written philosophy […]
Reply to Harman
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Harman on January 14, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Graham Harman has written a post about me in which he says that I was trying to “refute” OOO in my “2 cheers” post, and that I “claim[ed] quite frankly that OOO is wrong.” I thought it worth pointing out that nowhere in that post did I mention OOO, or Graham’s philosophy under any other name. […]
34 warm years & counting
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture on January 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The results are in and both NOAA and NASA agree that 2010 is statistically tied (with 2005) for the warmest year on record, globally. Nine of the last ten years are among the ten warmest years on record. (The exception was 2008. The records go back to 1880.) And the last time we had a […]
Puzzles
Posted in Philosophy on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Graham is “puzzled that Ivakhiv thinks OOO can be refuted by the fact that objects have histories.” I’m puzzled why Graham would think that I think that. I’m also puzzled why my brief comment (on Tim’s blog) about stability and instability, and about stability as an achievement rather than a default mode, should have set […]
2 cheers for lava lamps & Lego blocks
Posted in Music & soundscape, Philosophy, tagged lava lamps, minimalism, music, Ontology, epistemology on January 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Tim Morton seems not to have liked my comment suggesting that reality is a mix of stability and instability, and that stability is an achievement rather than a default position. The universe, I would say, is an achievement as well. His much-loved (?) lava lamps are achievements, as are Graham Harman‘s Lego blocks. They don’t […]
On animism, multinaturalism, & cosmopolitics
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged animism, anthropomorphism, biosemiotics, cosmopolitics, Descola, Latour, panpsychism, Peirce, Stengers, Whitehead on January 10, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Since there isn’t much available in English about Philippe Descola’s writings on animism, I thought I would share a piece of the cosmopolitics argument I mentioned in my last post. It will appear, in modified form, in the concluding chapter of the SAR Press volume mentioned there. Most of the volume will consist of ethnographic […]
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