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open-source socialism & the politics of self-organizing systems

Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, Politics, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

(On Kevin Kelly’s “The New Socialism,” Paul Ward’s Medea Hypothesis, Steven Shaviro’s “Against Self-Organization,” and more.) Self-organizing adaptive systems and other networks are more than just the flavor of the philosophical month; they are a model increasingly used to make sense of the natural and cultural worlds. Generally it’s assumed that such distributed self-organization is […]

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sightings

Posted in Philosophy on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Happy May Day, Beltane (see my original post on the two), and Open Access Anthropology Day! Here’s a great open access book to read today (though I’m hoping the emotional geographies folks will get together with the animal geographies folks to produce some interesting symbioses):

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philosophy vs. ecoculture

Posted in Blog stuff, Philosophy on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Maybe part of the reason I’ve been writing more on philosophical themes here than on ‘ecoculture’ is the simple fact that I’m surrounded by environmental themes on a daily basis – in my teaching, reading and writing, in discussions with students and colleagues. But not a single one of my colleagues here is a philosopher […]

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Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on April 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Keith Robinson’s introduction to the collection Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections, just published by Palgrave Macmillan, provides an excellent and much needed overview of the reception histories of these three thinkers. Robinson’s contextualization of them within the analytical and continental philosophical traditions makes clear why each has been marginalized or misunderstood to varying degrees in […]

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‘After 1968’ & the blessedness of the Buddho-Spinozan

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

There’s a wealth of material in post-marxist and poststructuralist political philosophy to be found at the After 1968 web site, which documents a series of seminars and lectures held in Maastricht over the last few years. You can find texts by Agamben, Deleuze, Badiou, Ranciere, Baudrillard, Negri, Derrida, Nancy, and others there, though it will […]

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kvond’s Spinoza

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , on April 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been perusing Kvond’s wonderful Spinozist blog Frames /Sing, which synthesizes in-depth readings of Spinoza alongside a broad interest in ontology, biology, semiosis (including biosemiotics), Deleuze, Latour, Heidegger, and much else, and generates insightful discussion with a coterie of other bloggers. For anyone interested, here’s a short list of some possibly entry points into his […]

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from Lacan to soil, neurophysiology, & happiness

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been impressed and even moved by a few recent posts over at Larval Subjects. “Electro-Chemical Signifiers” describes the author’s transformation from full-fledged Lacanian (both theorist and analyst) to something that seems much broader and welcoming of the world. Not, of course, that Lacanians cannot be broad and welcoming of the world; I’m only judging […]

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finds

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Warwick philosophy journal Pli has made some back issues available on-line, including issues on Romanticism, Science, Nature, and Nietzsche. A few particularly recommended articles: Isabelle Stengers, “God’s Heart and the Stuff of Life“, John Sellars, “The point of view of the cosmos: Deleuze, Romanticism, Stoicism,” Alain Badiou, “Who is Nietzsche?,” and the Nomadic Trajectories issue, […]

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the other biocultural studies

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on March 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Following from the last entry: I should have mentioned the other kind of biocultural studies that’s been getting more & more attention recently: see here, here, and here. The “Biocultures Manifesto,” which appeared in New Literary History back in 2007, seemed to suggest that it was time for all the work on embodiment, biopolitics (Foucauldian, […]

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cultural studies’ biosemiotic turn?

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »

One of the impressive recent efforts to bring the physical sciences and the social sciences and humanities back onto “consilient” speaking terms (to use E. O. Wilson’s terminology, though his own efforts at this have been unimpressive) is Wendy Wheeler’s The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture. Wheeler is a humanist, an […]

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philosophical sitings

Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy on March 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I really think that philosophy’s production site is shifting more and more from the library/study and cafe and scholarly journal to the web and blogosphere. Kvond over at Frames /sing has been putting out some very interesting and detailed blogs about Bruno Latour. Larvalsubjects (philosopher and ex-Lacanian analyst Levi Bryant) is blogging about ontology, assemblages, […]

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Immanent naturalism

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , on February 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »

“Immanent naturalism” is political theorist William E. Connolly’s term for a tradition of thought that doesn’t seek ultimate explanations, ahistorical forces, or transcendental frameworks to give meaning to the world; rather, it finds meaning enough in the world as it is experienced by mortals like us. The general idea is that the world itself is […]

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