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SR, or Morton on The Universe of Things

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on July 28, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Tim Morton has penned a nice (if thoroughly Mortonish) introduction to a very nice introduction (by Steven Shaviro) to speculative realism. With lines like these:

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Harman’s reply

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , on June 9, 2015 | 24 Comments »

Graham Harman’s reply to my critical response to his book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political, which appeared as part of a book symposium in Global Discourse earlier this year, is readable online, here.  I won’t address the details of that reply here. Some of them relate to our divergent interpretations of Latour, and since Harman has now written two books (and more) about […]

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“Ontology Across the Disciplines” reading group

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , on February 8, 2015 | 3 Comments »

I’m participating in a reading group here at the University of Vermont entitled “Ontology Across the Disciplines.” (More than just participating… I’ve been gently arm-twisted by the organizers, anthropologists Parker Van Valkenberg and Ben Eastman, into chairing the discussions. Thanks, guys 😉 ) Since I know there are folks out there who may be interested, […]

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Anthropocenic reckoning

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , on January 17, 2015 | 2 Comments »

With environmental and eco-political news in the front pages daily, it’s easy to get back into the swing of regular, even daily, posting after the winter holiday lull. Here’s more on the “dating the ecocrisis” theme… Andy Revkin is reporting that the Anthropocene Working Group has concluded that the middle of the twentieth century makes […]

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Anthropocene, multispecies, & other trends

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , on December 13, 2014 | 8 Comments »

Academic trend watchers will be interested to see how the digital and the Anthropocene have catapulted to the top of hot topics at this year’s American Anthropological Association conference. (A few others are mentioned here and here, Bruno Latour’s keynote being one of them. Here’s a collection of tweets on Latour’s talk, most of them by Jenny Carlson. […]

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Ingold’s (hi)stories from the north

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , on September 11, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

The keynote talks at this conference (including my own) are being videotaped and will be made available publicly sometime in the coming months, as I understand it, so I haven’t made any effort to document them here. But with Tim Ingold I couldn’t resist. Anthropologist Ingold has been a prominent star in my intellectual sky […]

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Dupré on process biology

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Science & society, tagged , , , on September 1, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Writing in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science blog Auxiliary Hypotheses, widely published University of Exeter philosopher John Dupré recently announced a project entitled A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology (PROBIO). According to Dupré, who is director of Egenis, the Center for the Study of the Life Sciences (formerly the ESRC Center for Genomics and Society), […]

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Anthropocene: Too serious for postmodern games

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Philosophy, Science & society, tagged , , , on August 18, 2014 | 6 Comments »

The following is a guest post by Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia. It continues the Immanence series “Debating the Anthropocene.” See here, here, and here for previous articles in the series. (And note that some lengthy comments have been added to the previous post by Jan Zalasiewicz, Kieran […]

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Anthropocene debate continues

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , on August 5, 2014 | 10 Comments »

Kieran Suckling’s post Against the Anthropocene, originally posted here on July 7 and subsequently shared with the International Commission on Stratigraphy’s Anthropocene Working Group by Andy Revkin, has elicited a round of emailed back-and-forths from some noteworthy individuals, including paleobiologist Jan Zalasiewicz and paleoecologist Anthony Barnosky. As this debate would be of interest to readers of this […]

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Against the Anthropocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , on July 7, 2014 | 14 Comments »

The following is a guest post by Kieran Suckling, Executive Director of the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity. It follows the discussion begun here and in some AESS conference sessions, including Andy Revkin’s keynote talk (viewable here) and responses to it (such as Clive Hamilton’s).  I In considering why the name “Anthropocene” has been proposed, why it has been embraced by many, […]

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“Beatnik Brothers” in Parrhesia

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on June 21, 2014 | 4 Comments »

The new issue of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy includes work by Quentin Meillassoux, Tristan Garcia, a review panel discussing Katrin Pahl’s Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion, and a piece by me on the objects-processes debate in speculative realist philosophy. The latter, entitled “Beatnik Brothers? Between Graham Harman and the Deleuzo-Whiteheadian Axis,” is an updated version […]

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On naming the Anthropocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on June 12, 2014 | 14 Comments »

The following are the comments I prepared for the roundtable “The Arts and Humanities Respond to the Anthropocene.” They follow in the line of critical thinking on the Anthropocene initiated by gatherings like the Anthropocene Project (see here, here, and here, and some of the posts at A(S)CENE) and journals like Environmental Humanities. As a cultural theorist, […]

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