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NT10: Ian Bogost (& Grusin closing)

Posted in Academe, Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged on May 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Bogost’s talk not being streamed (by his request). Ian Bogost, “The Aesthetics of Philosophical Carpentry” A talk about philosophy and the objects of which it’s made, in 12 parts (first 11 are pretend) I. Enjoying This Presentation II. The Things We Do: Airport tarmac. Philosophers in a lecture hall not unlike an aircraft approaching the […]

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NT7: Beatnik brothers…

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , on May 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »

For what it’s worth, here’s the Power Point that went along with my talk. I changed the title to “Beatnik Brothers? Harman’s Objects and the Becoming-Whiteheadian of Deleuze.” I meant “of Deleuzians” (some of whom were in the audience: Manning, Shaviro, Massumi and Hansen I think). The first two slides are the original title (slide) […]

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NT6: Morton: “They are here”

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , on May 4, 2012 | 6 Comments »

Tim Morton, “They are here” Talking Heads video “Crosseyed and painless” (dir. Toni Basil, featured the Elecric Boogaloos). Is the non-national anthem of global anxiety. The sound of the end of the world and beginning of history. The first moonwalk is here (not Michael Jackson). The Levinasian “il y-a”, environmental creepiness, but we don’t know […]

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NT5: Shaviro on panpsychism

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »

I took a break from live-blogging [added later: I had originally written “love-bloggin” LOL. I won’t correct other typos, but there’re probably many of them here] during the break-out sessions, taking advantage of the time to work a bit more on my own paper, to be given this afternoon. I’m picking things up now with […]

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NT4: Jane Bennett walks into a bar with an OOO

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on May 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Our morning plenarist is Jane Bennett, whose work has been discussed extensively on this blog before (e.g., here). Introduction by Kennan Ferguson: will Jane B. be throwing down a gauntlet? Jane Bennett: “Systems & Things: a materialist and an object-oriented philosopher walk into a bar…”

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NT2: Erin Manning

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on May 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Plenary #2: Erin Manning, “Another Regard” Discussion of Nathaniel Stern’s art installation. Epigraph from Dawn Prince (anthropologist, worked with gorillas, written memoirs on her autistic experience with gorillas) 1st movement: Are you a gorilla?

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Nonhuman Turn Day 1: Massumi

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on May 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »

This is the first of my blog posts from the Nonhuman Turn conference. These will be uploaded as they come over the next two and a half days. Special thanks to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee for making this as easy as it is, and to Mary Mullen for making sure it is that way. […]

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Whitehead’s return, ecology’s boon

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2012 | 12 Comments »

“Ultimately, the thinking of speculative pragmatism that is activist philosophy belongs to nature. Its aesthetico-politics compose a nature philosophy. The occurrent arts in which it exhibits itself are politics of nature. “The one-word summary of its relational-qualitative goings on: ecology. Activist philosophy concerns the ecology of powers of existence. Becomings in the midst. Creative change […]

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“Only a god can save us…”

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on March 16, 2012 | 9 Comments »

  In a comment to my last post on triads and divinities, my frequent commenter/interlocutor “dmf” points out a nice essay by Robert Gall called “From Daimonion to the ‘Last’ God: Socrates, Heidegger, and the God of the Thinker,” which Mark Fullmer has made available beyond the restricted-access community. Gall distinguishes between the god of […]

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Thinking through threes (& deities)

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , on March 14, 2012 | 14 Comments »

  One of the things that Ecologies of the Moving Image has left unresolved, and left me needing to think more about, is the extent to which my Peircian “triadism” holds up. Philosophically, the case for some sort of triadism as a way of getting around dualisms is, at first blush, appealing. But there are […]

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Process-objects at The Nonhuman Turn

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , on February 28, 2012 | 10 Comments »

The preliminary schedule is out for The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies. The list of speakers reads like a “who’s who” of the neo-ontological, speculative-realist crowd in cultural and media theory: Steven Shaviro, Jane Bennett, Brian Massumi, Erin Manning, Mark Hansen, Ian Bogost, and Tim Morton are among the keynotes, while lesser mortals like […]

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In a nutshell

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter on January 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Shinzen Young lays it all out: He has also started blogging (to add to his other  online  presences).

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