Levi Bryant has a wonderful post up in response to my announcement of Stengers’s book. If mine was “less appealing” to him, as he puts it, this may not be a bad thing, as it seems to have elicited a shimmering cascade of resonating strings in his thinking. (Perhaps appeal has a devilishly indirect manner […]
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The movement of larval objects
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Bryant, object-oriented philosophy on May 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Process integralism
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged integral theory, Whitehead, Wilber on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Further on the integral theory front, I wanted to mention another angle on the Wilber-Whitehead conversation. Bonnitta Roy’s article “A Process Model of Integral Theory” (pdf) in the December 2006 issue of Integral Review is a thought-provoking attempt to advance post-metaphysical integral theory further toward process thought and Dzogchen Buddhism (what better combination?).
Thinking with Whitehead
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged beatnik brotherhood, Deleuze, Harman, Stengers, Whitehead on May 23, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Isabelle Stengers’s Thinking With Whitehead arrived in the mail today. The publication of the English translation of this tome, a long nine years after the French original, is a genuine Event in the world of process-relational philosophy (or whatever you’d like to name the “beatnik brotherhood,” as Harman calls it, of philosophers of immanence and […]
The idea of Nature, refigured
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged nature, Whitehead on May 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
In defiance of the idea that Nature — the thing, or the idea (capitalized or not), or both — is either dead or unnecessary, I feel like posting some favorite passages from “Nature Alive,” the second of A. N. Whitehead’s two 1933 lectures on nature, published in Modes of Thought (1938/1968), which you can read […]
More on constructions: gun, hammer, or scaffold?
Posted in Philosophy, tagged constructionism, constructivism, Latour, postmodernism on May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The comments on this previous post resulted in my doing a bit of quick research (methodology: googling) on how often the terms “constructivism” and “constructionism” get used in relation to certain theorists and theoretical terms. Here are the results. I’ve put the “winning” terms in bold:
Vitale on Deleuze’s Cinema books
Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, Visual culture, tagged Deleuze, Vitale on April 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Chris Vitale at Networkologies has a great series going on Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema books. It’s rich with insights and video clips. It starts here and continues for several lengthy posts. Or scroll down the right here to the “Mini-Essays” links on “Reading Deleuze’s Cinema Books.”
Eco-onto-politics 3: Wilber, Integralism, & Whitehead
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged integral theory, integralism, nonduality, object-oriented philosophy, spirituality, transpersonal psychology, Whitehead, Wilber on April 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This post continues from the previous in this series, which looked at integral ecophilosopher Sean Esbjorn-Hargens’s writing on the ontology of climate change. Here I examine the relationship between leading integral theorist Ken Wilber, integralist Esbjorn-Hargens, and process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. It’s a little difficult to separate Wilber’s and Esbjorn-Hargens’s views on Whitehead. I […]
Progress (toward Ω?)
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Bryant, correlationism, Meillassoux, object-oriented philosophy, Peirce on April 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
(This is a slightly revised version of the piece I posted a few hours ago…) I haven’t posted about the debate between object-oriented and process-relational ontologies for a while here, in part because I said I’d had enough of that debate. But the more I read of Levi Bryant’s work — both in Democracy of […]
Slice of time
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Bateson, Ontology, epistemology, Peirce, rigpa, time, Whitehead on April 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Chris Vitale has a nice post up on Deleuze’s Bergsonian notion of the image as a “slice of time,” or a “slice of the world” — which for Deleuze amounts to more or less the same thing. In a similar spirit, I thought I’d post briefly about a Whiteheadian notion of time. Normally when we […]
Eco-onto-politics 2: Integralism & climate change
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged environmental sociology, Esbjorn-Hargens, integral theory, integralism, Ontology, epistemology, post-constructivism, Whitehead, Wilber on April 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
This is the second post in a series on the intersections between ecology, ontology, and politics. (The first reviewed Andrew Pickering’s The Cybernetic Brain.) Here I focus on integral ecologist Sean Esbjörn–Hargens‘s article An Ontology of Climate Change: Integral Pluralism and the Enactment of Multiple Objects. This post can also serve as a prelude to […]
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