The level of discussion following my review/critique of Harman’s Prince of Networks, along with Harman’s brief but welcome response, has encouraged me to post a few more thoughts about this difference between “relationalism” and “objectology” (my term for a central part of his object-oriented philosophy or ontology), that is, between a view that holds that […]
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More on Harman, or what’s outside the system of relations?
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Deleuze, Harman, relationalism, speculative realism, Whitehead on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
open-source socialism & the politics of self-organizing systems
Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, Politics, Process-relational thought, tagged autopoiesis, biology, ecology, ecotheory, enactive cognition, political ecology, self-organization, Whitehead on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
(On Kevin Kelly’s “The New Socialism,” Paul Ward’s Medea Hypothesis, Steven Shaviro’s “Against Self-Organization,” and more.) Self-organizing adaptive systems and other networks are more than just the flavor of the philosophical month; they are a model increasingly used to make sense of the natural and cultural worlds. Generally it’s assumed that such distributed self-organization is […]
Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged analytical philosophy, Bergson, complexity, Continental philosophy, Deleuze, Whitehead on April 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Keith Robinson’s introduction to the collection Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections, just published by Palgrave Macmillan, provides an excellent and much needed overview of the reception histories of these three thinkers. Robinson’s contextualization of them within the analytical and continental philosophical traditions makes clear why each has been marginalized or misunderstood to varying degrees in […]
About this blog
Posted in Blog stuff, Process-relational thought, tagged becoming, ecocriticism, environmental communication, immanence, immanent naturalism, Ontology, epistemology, political ecology on February 26, 2009 | 36 Comments »
An online space for environmental cultural theory, this weblog has two primary objectives: (1) To communicate about issues at the intersection of ecological, political, and cultural thought and practice, especially at the interdisciplinary junctures forming in and around the fields of ecocriticism , green cultural studies, political ecology, environmental communication, ecophilosophy, and related areas (biosemiotics, […]
immanence and field-being
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, Ontology, epistemology on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An excellent source of current philosophical thinking on issues related to this blog from an Asian perspective (primarily Buddhist and Daoist) is the International Journal for Field-Being, which is published by the International Institute for Field-Being. “Field-being” is one of the terms Asian thinkers (and translators) have used to encompass a kind of non-essentialist ontology […]
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