A process-relational buddhontology sees every moment as a moment of grasping, or prehension, that begins with an open, spacious cognizance, gathers/feels/responds to what has arisen before it, and ends in the satisfaction of its own concrescence. When the object of that satisfaction is unrecognized as what it is — as the immanent flow of desiring-production, […]
Archive for 2010
…& beginnings (a toast to this moment)
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter on December 31, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Year ends
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a handful of best-of-the-year stories collected from around the blogosphere (and beyond: Zero Anthropology (includes a top 10 of Wikileaks posts) Andy Revkin’s list of planet-sized events (and click on the BBC, Wired, NPR and Scientific American science stories of the year links for more in this vein) Grist’s top 10 green stories of […]
On anthropomorphism: making humans, pencils, & souls
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged animism, anthropomorphism, Jung, Latour, object-oriented philosophy, Whitehead on December 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Tim Morton has recently been suggesting that just as humans anthropomorph (that’s a verb), so pencils pencilmorph. I love this idea, though I’m not sure about its implications, which I want to think through here. Anthropomorphism #1 (traditional, & its extensions) The traditional definition of anthropomorphism is something like “the attribution of human characteristics to […]
2nd annual report
Posted in Blog stuff on December 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Compared to last year’s report, this one will be brief. The blog has been a little more active this past year than in its first year, featuring some 200 posts (compared to 140), many of them short but some quite substantial. Highlights included the cross-blog Vibrant Matter reading group (in May and June), the recurring […]
The tree of life, in pieces
Posted in Cinema, tagged film, Malick on December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If you haven’t seen the trailer for Terence Malick’s forthcoming film The Tree of Life, you’re just not a real cineaste, are you? What’s better than burrowing analytically into the Heideggerian ecophilosophical themes of Malick’s films (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World — before making any of them he was […]
Happy solstice
Posted in Spirit matter on December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
What was the Earth protecting the moon from last night anyway? Ah, the solstice sun… First time in 456 years, apparently. Happy Solstice. More here.
A book per visitor…
Posted in Blog stuff on December 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Fifty visitors at once on this blog (according to Sitemeter). That may well be a record… If the pages load slowly, that’s probably the reason… Must be the books.
The science gene
Posted in Academe, Uncategorized on December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Pretty funny, if you haven’t seen it yet… H/t to Tom Cheetham.
My smile is stuck… (moonlight in vermont)
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged music, rock on December 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
From the very first moment of hearing Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band’s Trout Mask Replica many years ago, I was hooked. The first crashing guitar chunks of “Frownland” followed by the Captain’s growling happy voice “My smile is stuck, I cannot go back to your Frownland”… When I read Lester Bangs’ lines, they rang […]
Migration glitches, etc.
Posted in Blog stuff on December 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Some of the videos on this blog seem to have not made it through the migration from MovableType to WordPress. That’s because this blog is on the University of Vermont server, which has fewer options for embedding videos than do stand-alone WordPress blogs. You can still find those videos from the Search bar of the […]
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Posted in Blog stuff on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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