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Posts Tagged ‘A. N. Whitehead’

Process semiotics, in a nutshell

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on September 2, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

It’s what informs my analysis of images, imagination, and the digital in The New Lives of Images. Here is the three-minute version of it. The universe is a living, dynamic, and responsive universe. It is made not of static objects, but of events — events which elicit other events. Its most basic unit is an […]

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No common (sense) world

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 12, 2024 | Leave a Comment »

Here are my thoughts on the US election, and on the challenges it presents us, in four parts. 1. The informational catastrophe, and the sadness of it For all the reasons to be dismayed about these elections, there’s one that saddens me most. It’s that all the people (me among them) who’ve given their professional […]

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The humors of democracy

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 12, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

I had been avoiding the Whitehead Research Project‘s monthly reading groups because of conflicts with other scheduled activities, but today I joined. The reading was a short, unpublished manuscript somewhat misleadingly titled “Freedom and Order,” as it’s mostly about humor, wit, and imagination. Now I understand why I’ve always been put off by, and a […]

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Why three ecologies?

Posted in Eco-theory, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 15, 2021 | 5 Comments »

French philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, in his The Three Ecologies, was the first to articulate the threefold nature of ecology, but he failed to provide a clear articulation of why there should be three and only three ecologies — not two, not one, not four or more. What is the ontological justification for this […]

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Eco-ethico-aesthetics and George Floyd

Posted in Cultural politics, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 4, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

As I explain in Shadowing the Anthropocene, process-relational philosophy in a Peircian-Whiteheadian vein takes aesthetics to be first, ethics to be second, and logic (which, in our time, we need to think of also as eco-logic) to be third. This is not a temporal sequence, but a logical one: aesthetics is found in the response […]

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