Tim Morton has penned a nice (if thoroughly Mortonish) introduction to a very nice introduction (by Steven Shaviro) to speculative realism. With lines like these:
Posts Tagged ‘theory’
SR, or Morton on The Universe of Things
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Morton, Shaviro, speculative realism, theory on July 28, 2015 | 2 Comments »
readings
Posted in Academe, GeoPhilosophy, tagged affect, geophilosophy, theory on February 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I’m reading, and being very impressed by, John Protevi’s recent book Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic. The book brings together a lot of recent work on affect with the best of the cognitive sciences (embodied/embedded/distributive/enactive cognition), complexity and nonlinear dynamical systems theories, and a strong grounding in philosophy, from Aristotle to Kant […]
immanence & codependent origination
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged Buddhism, immanence, psychoanalysis, theory on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I took a break from reading John Mullarkey’s Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline – in which Mullarkey develops a philosophy of immanence drawing on, and critiquing, the respective efforts of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Michel Henry, and Francois Laruelle – to have some lunch and browse the latest issue of Tricycle. One of the articles, a […]
imagination & contemporary theory
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged affect, cognition, Continental philosophy, Deleuze, enchantment, imagination, Jung, theory, visuality on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is a summary I provided to a grad student who was starting to get into this area. It’s very introductory and far from complete in its coverage, but since there’s so little out there on this topic, I thought it would be useful to post it. It’s also a bit biased towards literature that’s […]
On ground and groundlessness: Jamesonian Marxism v. Derridean deconstruction v. Buddhist onto-phenomenalism (w/ guest appearances by Lacan and Freud, spiked all the way through with ecology)
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged Buddhism, Derrida, ecocriticism, ecophilosophy, Jameson, Madhyamika, Marxism, psychoanalysis, theory, Zizek on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Or, Toward an eco-Buddhist-processualist cultural criticism Note: This is work in progress and probably won’t be published for a while, and not in this form in any case. It comes from an attempt to theorize an ‘ecocritical’ understanding of culture that is in dialogue with the Marxist tradition of social and political analysis, Derridean poststructural […]