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Sobering up…

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 22, 2019 | 5 Comments »

Peter Brannen’s Atlantic article “The Anthropocene is a Joke” provides a helpful cold shower for those who’ve gotten a little too drunk on the concept of the Anthropocene. The entire article is worth reading. Here are a few snippets:

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The second ontological twist

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 10, 2019 | 2 Comments »

I keep trying to rephrase the second piece of the “double insight” — or two ontological “twists” — around which the philosophical argument of Shadowing the Anthropocene (and Ecologies of the Moving Image) is woven. The first insight is the process-relational one, which is at the core of both A. N. Whitehead’s metaphysics and many variations […]

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Updated process-relational theory primer

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , on June 2, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

I originally presented a “primer” to process-relational philosophy on this blog back in 2010. A substantially updated version of it is part of my book, Shadowing the Anthropocene. Here it is as a stand-alone, 10-page PDF file.

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Shadowing unshadowed

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2019 | 1 Comment »

As agreed to with my publisher (Punctum), the e-book version of Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times is now available for free download (or pay what you can). To celebrate this, I’m sharing a couple of snippets from the book here. As related in my Reader’s Guide, the book consists of three sections: first, […]

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Shadowing the Anthropocene: a reader’s guide

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2018 | 8 Comments »

Here’s the “reader’s guide” I promised for Shadowing the Anthropocene. It begins with a quick summary of the book’s main contribution — a kind of “master key” to what it tries to do. It then lays out a set of paths one can take through the book, which would be useful for readers with an […]

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Shadowing the Anthropocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 9, 2018 | 3 Comments »

Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times arrived in the mail today. It’s published by punctum books, an open-access academic and para-academic publisher I’ve found to be a real delight to work with. Eileen Joy deserves a medal for her leadership of punctum, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei’s cover and book design is beautiful. The book […]

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Whitehead in Greensboro

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on July 6, 2016 | 3 Comments »

This post follows up on my previous note about Alfred North Whitehead’s time spent in Greensboro, Vermont. It was updated on July 7, 2016, thanks to information obtained from the Mitchells’ descendants. I have found out where the Whiteheads stayed when he was writing his philosophical magnum opus, Process and Reality. It was in a two-story cottage owned by economist […]

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Whitehead’s genius loci

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on June 20, 2016 | 2 Comments »

I was astounded to read the following passage as I sat in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake in Greenboro, Vermont, earlier today: “Work on ‘The Concept of Organism’ began with the summer of 1927, which the Whiteheads spent in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake, in Greensboro, Vermont. It was there […]

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Interview & autobio

Posted in Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 31, 2016 | 4 Comments »

Interviews are funny things: you have to think on the spot, but later realize how deeply and profoundly imperfect (!) was your choice of words. The Imperfect Buddha Podcast has an interview with me in which host Matthew O’Connor (of Post-Traditional Buddhism) and I talk at length about Buddhism, process-relational metaphysics, panpsychism, social constructionism, cognitive science, […]

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Follow-up on Peirce & the MER/EMR triad

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , on February 13, 2016 | 9 Comments »

I shared my previous post on the Peirce-L discussion forum and received about 16 responses in five days. The following is an edited version of the summary response I sent to the forum regarding the main comments presented there. I’ve eliminated names or substituted them with single initials where that seemed warranted.

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Rethinking the 3 categories

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 9, 2016 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been struggling with how my triadic framework for interpreting art works relates to C. S. Peirce’s categories. When I first developed my triadism (fleshed out in Ecologies of the Moving Image) into the non-Peircian terms of materiality, experience, and representation — which I did in the context of teaching a course on the environmental arts — […]

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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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