While I find much to admire in Tim Morton’s writings (and in him personally, as I’ve recently related), I’m sure he knows that his writing on what he calls “lava lampy materialism” leaves me unconvinced. (I’ve discussed that topic here, here, and elsewhere.) I haven’t read his Realist Magic yet, so I can’t comment on […]
Archive for November, 2013
Lava lampy Whitehead?
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Bogost, lava lampy materialism, Morton, object-oriented philosophy, Whitehead on November 30, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Querying Natural Religion: Responses to Latour
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged Anthropocene, Connolly, Gaia, immanence, Latour on November 24, 2013 | 10 Comments »
The following are my notes from “Querying Natural Religion: Immanence, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things.” (Live-blogging did not work, as we didn’t have a live internet connection.) These notes are followed by a brief set of post-event summary comments. The setting: an airplane hangar of a hall in the Baltimore Convention Center. This […]
Imminently in Baltimore
Posted in Philosophy, tagged AAR, Connolly, Gaia, immanence, Latour, natural religion on November 20, 2013 | 4 Comments »
Get ready for the lively parliament of immanent Gaianly agents… “Querying Natural Religion: Immanence, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things” will take place this Saturday afternoon in the Baltimore Convention Center (right after Karen Armstrong’s plenary in the same room, on “The Science of Compassion”). The revised speaker line-up is below. Unfortunately, Jane Bennett […]
50 years
Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged JFK, reality, Zapruder film on November 16, 2013 | 1 Comment »
A. O. Scott’s article on the Abraham Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination captures something of the 50-year transition from the first cinéma vérité president (Kennedy) to a world in which everyone is their own cinéma vérité celebrity — stars and legends in our own minds. The Zapruder film in a sense predates all that — it comes […]
Mormon film ecologies
Posted in Cinema, tagged Ecologies of the Moving Image, interview, Mormon on November 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I did a double-take when a producer from BYU Radio — Brigham Young University’s faith-and-values based talk radio station, which broadcasts to millions around the world through Sirius XM satellite radio — approached me for an interview about Ecologies of the Moving Image. I presume the majority of listeners are members of the Church of […]
Society & Space interview
Posted in Cinema, Uncategorized on November 8, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Society and Space has posted a conversation/interview that Harlan Morehouse carried out with me in early October. While it’s focused on Ecologies of the Moving Image, we talk about plenty of other things — nature and culture, the eco-humanities, the Anthropocene, ontology, critical geography, Buddhism, Zizek, Peirce, nationalism, withdrawn objects, and more. And plenty of […]
Reading AIME
Posted in Philosophy, tagged AIME, cosmopolitics, Latour on November 8, 2013 | 3 Comments »
I’m just managing to keep up with the Latour/AIME reading groups (both the one on my campus and the online one organized by Adam Robbert et al.), but not so much with the commentaries. Here’s my first brief reflection on the book… 1. You know that a scholar has made it to the top of […]