I’ve always been more of an improviser than a long-range planner, but my job requires that I occasionally dabble in long-range projections of my work. Here’s one. While a number of concerns have framed my scholarship over the years — ethical, political, cultural, ecological, and theoretical concerns — the philosophical core of it has been […]
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The conceptual machine
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged categories, Deleuze, ecosophy-G, Ontology, epistemology, Peirce, Whitehead on July 13, 2013 | 1 Comment »
EMI is imminent…
Posted in Media ecology, tagged ecocinema studies, Ecologies of the Moving Image on June 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Ecologies of the Moving Image will be out next month. (Some seven years after I started working on it.) Here is a poster for it. Many thanks to Steven Shaviro and Sean Cubitt for their generous endorsements, which I reproduce here: “Ecologies of the Moving Image is an ambitious book, and a capacious and satisfying […]
How a film becomes a subject
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged Up the Yangtze on May 28, 2013 | 1 Comment »
A key question for a process-relational account of a film is the question of how that film shows objects and subjects in the process of being made — how it shows subjectivation and objectivation arising together. Much of Ecologies of the Moving Image is about this, but what remains more implicit throughout the book is the way […]
Stalking the book…
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, tagged Chernobyl, Stalker, Tarkovsky, Zone on May 22, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Teaching my film course (especially in its current rendition as “Ecology Film Philosophy”) and the book that goes with it (Ecologies of the Moving Image, which will be publicly available in July) — and especially teaching the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker, which serves as a sort of template for the book — makes me feel […]
“What a bodymind can do” update
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged bodymind, Buddhism, categories, experience, Mahayana, meditation, mindfulness, Peirce, Shinzen Young on March 25, 2013 | 2 Comments »
The following provides an updated diagram and some further notes pertaining to my three-part article “What A Bodymind Can Do.” The earlier parts can be read here: part 1, part 2, part 3. (Please note that this version has corrected a minor error in the originally posted article, and added a bit more information at […]
On the subject(s) of experience
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged pre-G, subjectivity, Whitehead on December 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This continues the consideration of subjectivity begun in the last post (on Zizek and Buddhism). It also continues the series on process-relational ecosophy-G, or pre-G.
Zizek v. Buddhism: who’s the subject?
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, subjectivity, Zizek on December 11, 2012 | 15 Comments »
This started out as a response to Slavoj Zizek’s recent talk here at the University of Vermont on “Buddhism Naturalized,” but evolved into a consideration of subjectivity, which happened to be the topic of my next post in the pre-G (process-relational ecosophy-G) series. So this can be considered part 1 of a 2-part series.
Deacon’s Incomplete Nature
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Deacon, Peirce on June 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Jason (Immanent Transcendence), Matthew (Footnotes to Plato), Adam, Michael, and Leon have begun their cross-blog reading of Terrence Deacon’s mammoth and ambitious Incomplete Nature. (See also Asher Kay’s post from February and Matt’s post on his conversation with Deacon about Whitehead.) Deacon’s book has been getting unwelcome attention for his seeming unwillingness to appropriately credit […]
Panpsychism in the news?
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged Antonioni, panpsychism, Skrbina on May 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
No, not really… But the Chronicle of Higher Ed has an interesting piece on leading panpsychist philosopher David Skrbina called The Unabomber’s Pen Pal. It turns out that Skrbina has been corresponding with Ted Kaczynski as part of his study of the philosophy of technology.
For the moment
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged ecosophy-G, moment, pre-G, Whitehead on May 14, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Now that a very busy semester has ended, I can return to the constructive speculative-metaphysical strand of this blog, in which I work out the process-relational philosophy I’ve tentatively labelled Ecosophy-G. A suitable acronym for this project might be “pre-G” (process-relational ecosophy-G), pronounced “pree-jee,” with the “pre” also indicating that the philosophy is a form […]
NT7: Beatnik brothers…
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Harman, Nonhuman Turn, object-oriented philosophy on May 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
For what it’s worth, here’s the Power Point that went along with my talk. I changed the title to “Beatnik Brothers? Harman’s Objects and the Becoming-Whiteheadian of Deleuze.” I meant “of Deleuzians” (some of whom were in the audience: Manning, Shaviro, Massumi and Hansen I think). The first two slides are the original title (slide) […]