While Stanford University Press has made the first chapter of The New Lives of Images available to readers on the book’s web site, what it hasn’t made available is the Preface, which lays out the problem the book is intended to address, as well as the book’s relationship to the three books that preceded it. […]
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Situating “The New Lives of Images”
Posted in Eco-theory, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged A. N. Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, image ecologies, imaginaries, imagination, The New Lives of Images on April 14, 2026 | Leave a Comment »
Process semiotics, in a nutshell
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged A. N. Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, process philosophy, process semiotics, semiotics, The New Lives of Images on September 2, 2025 | 2 Comments »
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 […]
The humors of democracy
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged A. N. Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead, Bakhtin, C. S. Peirce, democracy, eco-egalitarianism, eco-justice, humor, religion, revolution, Whitehead, Whitehead reading group, Whitehead Research Project, wit 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 The reading was a short, unpublished manuscript somewhat misleadingly titled “Freedom and Order,” as it’s mostly about humor, wit, and imagination.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 […]
Eco-ethico-aesthetics and George Floyd
Posted in Cultural politics, Process-relational thought, tagged A. N. Whitehead, aesthetics, C. S. Peirce, eco-ethico-aesthetics, ecology, ethics, firstness, George Floyd, George Floyd protests, logic, object-oriented ontology, revolutionary moments, secondness, Shadowing the Anthropocene, systemic racism, U.S. cultural politics, Whitehead 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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