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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What a bodymind can do – Part 1
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Peirce, practice, Shinzen Young, Whitehead on May 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The beatnik brotherhood
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Continental philosophy, Deleuze, Harman, Latour, Stengers, Whitehead 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.
The movement of larval objects
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Bryant, object-oriented philosophy 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 […]
Process integralism
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged integral theory, Whitehead, Wilber 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?).
Thinking with Whitehead
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged beatnik brotherhood, Deleuze, Harman, Stengers, Whitehead 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 […]
Eco-onto-politics 3: Wilber, Integralism, & Whitehead
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged integral theory, integralism, nonduality, object-oriented philosophy, spirituality, transpersonal psychology, Whitehead, Wilber on April 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This post continues from the previous in this series, which looked at integral ecophilosopher Sean Esbjorn-Hargens’s writing on the ontology of climate change. Here I examine the relationship between leading integral theorist Ken Wilber, integralist Esbjorn-Hargens, and process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. It’s a little difficult to separate Wilber’s and Esbjorn-Hargens’s views on Whitehead. I […]
Progress (toward Ω?)
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Bryant, correlationism, Meillassoux, object-oriented philosophy, Peirce on April 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
(This is a slightly revised version of the piece I posted a few hours ago…) I haven’t posted about the debate between object-oriented and process-relational ontologies for a while here, in part because I said I’d had enough of that debate. But the more I read of Levi Bryant’s work — both in Democracy of […]
Slice of time
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Bateson, Ontology, epistemology, Peirce, rigpa, time, Whitehead on April 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Chris Vitale has a nice post up on Deleuze’s Bergsonian notion of the image as a “slice of time,” or a “slice of the world” — which for Deleuze amounts to more or less the same thing. In a similar spirit, I thought I’d post briefly about a Whiteheadian notion of time. Normally when we […]
Eco-onto-politics 2: Integralism & climate change
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged environmental sociology, Esbjorn-Hargens, integral theory, integralism, Ontology, epistemology, post-constructivism, Whitehead, Wilber on April 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
This is the second post in a series on the intersections between ecology, ontology, and politics. (The first reviewed Andrew Pickering’s The Cybernetic Brain.) Here I focus on integral ecologist Sean Esbjörn–Hargens‘s article An Ontology of Climate Change: Integral Pluralism and the Enactment of Multiple Objects. This post can also serve as a prelude to […]
Ecology-ontology-politics (1): Pickering’s cyborgs
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Science & society, tagged Bateson, cybernetics, ecology, Ontology, epistemology, Pickering, Politics, science studies on April 4, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Ecology, ontology, politics: These three terms are among the most common themes of this blog, but their intersections deserve a more sustained exploration. This is the first of a series of posts that will do that through critical discussion of various readings and concepts. This first post reviews and reflects on some of the questions […]
Cronon, Chomsky/Foucault, & public reason
Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged aesthetics, Chomsky, Cronon, Foucault, Politics, Wisconsin on March 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Bill Cronon-Wisconsin Republican party tangle is making me — and many others, judging by the responses I’ve seen on academic listservs — think a little more deeply about how we use our e-mail addresses. Like many, I’m troubled by the possibility that someone could ask to see my e-mail correspondence on any old topic. […]
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