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Those objects in the rearview mirror…

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , on June 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Differences are starting to emerge in our group reading of Integral Ecology, with Tim Morton taking a grumpy stance from the back of the car while others are measured but generally more positive in their assessments. Tim’s main criticism seems to be the Object-Oriented Ontological one that E/Z’s categories “map perfectly onto normal everyday human […]

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Integral Ecology – week 3 (part 2)

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , on June 16, 2011 | 7 Comments »

This continues from the previous post, where I discussed chapter 3 of Integral Ecology. Together these posts make up my summary overviews for Week 3 of the reading group. What follows is less a summary than a response to chapter 4, but I think it covers most of the key concepts in the chapter.   […]

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Integral Ecology – week 3 (part 1)

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on June 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Integral Ecology reading group moves here this week, picking up the baton from Adam and Sam at Knowledge Ecology. (And see Michael’s summary at Archive Fire.) This week we’re focusing on chapters 3 (“A Developing Kosmos”) and 4 (“Developing Interiors”). Following a short summative preamble, this post examines Chapter 3. Its follow-up will examine […]

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Tim Ingold & the liveliness of the living

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , on June 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »

A new book by Tim Ingold is always good news, especially one that — like his 2000 collection Perception of the Environment — brings together several years’ worth of work into one volume. Ingold describes Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description as “in many ways” a “sequel” to that earlier book, and it’s […]

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Integral Ecology schedule

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , on May 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »

The Integral Ecology reading group schedule has been announced, with Michael at Archive Fire leading the charge (with the announcement; Adam at Knowledge Ecology with the actual hosting). The schedule is as follows:

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What a bodymind can do – Part 3

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This is the concluding part of a three-part article. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here. They should be read in the sequence in which they were published.   The True, the Good, and the Beautiful All of this can be related to the triad of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful […]

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What a bodymind can do – Part 2

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This continues from the previous post, where Shinzen Young’s model of core mindfulness practices was expanded into a system of classifying what a human bodymind can do. Here the model is deepened following the process-relational insights that are at the core of Shinzen’s system as well as of other (especially Mahayana and Vajrayana) Buddhist systems, […]

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What a bodymind can do – Part 1

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on May 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Working with Shinzen Young‘s system of mindfulness training, which I’ve described here before, and thinking it through in the process-relational logic I’ve been developing on this blog (and elsewhere), is resulting in a certain re-mix of Shinzen’s ideas, and of Buddhism more generally, with Peirce’s, Whitehead’s, Wilber’s, Deleuze’s, and others’. Here’s a crack at where […]

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The beatnik brotherhood

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on May 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Graham Harman’s note reiterating his position that Whitehead, Latour, Deleuze, Bergson, and Simondon (among others) do not make up a coherent philosophical “lump” — “pack” or “tribe” might be more colorful terms here (if philosophers were cats, how herdable would they be?) — makes me want to clarify my own position on these thinkers.

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The movement of larval objects

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , on May 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »

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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Process integralism

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , 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?).

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Thinking with Whitehead

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , 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 […]

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