I’m just managing to keep up with the Latour/AIME reading groups (both the one on my campus and the online one organized by Adam Robbert et al.), but not so much with the commentaries. Here’s my first brief reflection on the book… 1. You know that a scholar has made it to the top of […]
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Reading AIME
Posted in Philosophy, tagged AIME, cosmopolitics, Latour on November 8, 2013 | 3 Comments »
NT10: Ian Bogost (& Grusin closing)
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged Nonhuman Turn 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 […]
Whitehead’s return, ecology’s boon
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged environmental philosophy, object-oriented philosophy, process philosophy, speculative realism, Whitehead 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 […]
Process-objects at The Nonhuman Turn
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Nonhuman Turn, object-oriented philosophy, speculative realism 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 […]
Life outside the lava lamp
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged lava lamps, object-oriented philosophy on August 17, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Over at Naught Thought, Ben Woodard (sorry, Ben, for the earlier misspell) wants “to know what the Process/Relational folks think” of his thoughts about philosophies of process versus philosophies of objects or substances (or something like that). What follows is one quick and dirty way of thinking of a certain key difference between these two […]
On noospheres and noesis
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Integral Ecology, noesis, noosphere on June 18, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Tim Morton makes the useful point that E/Z’s notion of the “noosphere” can only be functional if it discriminates between some kinds of thing such as cognizing with neurons versus other kinds of thing such as cognizing with plant hormones, or resting on a table, or spanning a river.
Those objects in the rearview mirror…
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged integral theory, object-oriented philosophy, Whitehead 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 […]
Integral Ecology schedule
Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged Integral Ecology, integral theory 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:
The idea of Nature, refigured
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged nature, Whitehead on May 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
In defiance of the idea that Nature — the thing, or the idea (capitalized or not), or both — is either dead or unnecessary, I feel like posting some favorite passages from “Nature Alive,” the second of A. N. Whitehead’s two 1933 lectures on nature, published in Modes of Thought (1938/1968), which you can read […]
Ecosophy-G
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged ecosophy, ecosophy-G, eventology, Guattari, Naess, Ontology, epistemology on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To the extent that ontological questions drive my recent writing (which includes Ecologies of the Moving Image, Ecologies of Identity, and a metaphysical manifesto-thriller called Why Objects Fly Out the Window), they are predominantly the following two: How do things enter into relation with other things? What happens (in the world) when they do? In […]
Here & there (or democracy is coming, sort of)
Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, Politics, Visual culture on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To the USA, perhaps… But mostly neither here nor there… There’s an interesting flare-up occurring over Moammar Gaddafi’s son Saif’s Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, involving respected political theorists David Held and Benjamin Barber, among others. (See Eric Schliesser for more.) The issues it raises are as old as the oldest profession: universities’ […]
Examining life, trash, & radical nature
Posted in Philosophy, Visual culture, tagged ecology, film, Morton, nature, philosophy, Zizek on February 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I enjoyed Astra Taylor’s film Examined Life when I first saw it a couple of years ago, and, having just watched it again, I’m glad to see that it bears re-viewing. As one might expect, some segments are more lasting than others. Slavoj Zizek wearing an orange safety vest talking about ecology at a London […]