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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 Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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geophilosophy

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The term “geophilosophy” is intended here in a nod both to Aldo Leopold’s idea of “Thinking like a mountain,” which I take as a provocation (what, or how, does a mountain think?) rather than a declaration of identity (“I’m the one who speaks for the mountain”) and, secondly, to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s ecophilosophizing. […]

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immanence and field-being

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

An excellent source of current philosophical thinking on issues related to this blog from an Asian perspective (primarily Buddhist and Daoist) is the International Journal for Field-Being, which is published by the International Institute for Field-Being. “Field-being” is one of the terms Asian thinkers (and translators) have used to encompass a kind of non-essentialist ontology […]

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Deleuze/Guattari & ecology

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Several prominent Deleuzians are collected in Bernd Herzogenrath’s “Deleuze/Guattari and ecology.” The opening chapter is on the publisher’s web site.

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Heraclitean spirituality

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter on January 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Patrick Lee Miller’s recent posts on Heraclitean spirituality, published on the Immanent Frame blog, make a valuable contribution to theorizing the ethics and spirituality of immanence. He notes that Heraclitus’ famous quote that’s sunk into popular culture as “You don’t step into the same river twice” actually means something more like “Neither you nor the […]

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why deleuze?

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Not because of his convoluted language, which entices and charms the converted but puts off others (though linguistic innovation is a way to provoke new thinking), nor the ways some of his (and Guattari’s) concepts get taken by their followers into a celebratory Mad Max style of desert anarchism (though desert anarchism sounds okay to […]

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immanence, transcendence, religion, imagination, politics

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On the surface, “immanence” would appear to favor certain religiosities (paganisms, pantheisms, animisms, earth spiritualities) over others (transcendentalist monotheisms, rigid dualisms, Buddhist “extinctionism,” et al). But its resonance works within traditions as well: towards panentheistic strains of Christianity, where the Christ is seen as in-dwelling, where Easter is the rebirth of nature and life as […]

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The Immanent Frame

Posted in Philosophy on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Immanent Frame, a blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere, has been having some great discussions about the role of religion, Charles Taylor’s book A Secular Age, and related matters.

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Immanence

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , on December 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Immanence

Immanence suggests co-implication, the implication of one thing in another (spirit in matter, mind in body, movement in repose, humans in nature), nonduality, the vitality of becoming rather than the stasis of being, the sufficiency of life in its generative relational flux, its vessels of light scattered for our gathering in each moment of darkness. […]

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