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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Eco-ethico-aesthetics and George Floyd
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, Politics, tagged A. N. Whitehead, aesthetics, C. S. Peirce, eco-ethico-aesthetics, ecology, ethics, firstness, George Floyd, George Floyd protests, logic, object-oriented ontology, process-relational thought, revolutionary moments, secondness, Shadowing the Anthropocene, systemic racism, U.S. cultural politics, Whitehead on June 4, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
Shadowing the Anthropocene
Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged Adrian Ivakhiv, aesthetics, Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Sanders Peirce, cultural theory, ecophilosophy, ethics, media philosophy, process-relational theory, process-relational thought, Punctum Books, religious studies, Shadowing the Anthropocene on October 9, 2018 | 3 Comments »
Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times arrived in the mail today. It’s published by punctum books, an open-access academic and para-academic publisher I’ve found to be a real delight to work with. Eileen Joy deserves a medal for her leadership of punctum, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei’s cover and book design is beautiful. The book […]
Greatest albums of the LP era
Posted in SoundScape, tagged aesthetics, album era, best albums, Bitches Brew, Bob Dylan, Can, Captain Beefheart, ecocritique, ecomusicology, Eno and Byrne, Funkadelic, Henry Cow, Incredible String Band, Magma, Miles Davis, music, musicology, process-relational theory, Radiohead, rock music, Talk Talk on May 8, 2017 | 8 Comments »
The recent social media meme listing 10 concerts people have attended accompanied by one they didn’t (“find the lie!”) has incited me to complete a list that started out as a “50th anniversary of the concept album” brainstorm over drinks one night last year. The question here is a little different: What are the most formative and […]
Anthropocene aesthetics
Posted in AnthropoScene, EcoCulture, ImageNation, tagged aesthetics, Anthropocene, coral reefs on April 10, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Cross-posting this piece by Emil from A(s)cene. Taylor’s coral reef art is beautiful. See also the discussion of Donna Haraway’s “String Figures” lecture and Bruno Latour’s 11 theses on capitalism.
Preparing my Peirce Centennial proposal
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged aesthetics, cinema, ethics, logic, Peirce, Peirce Centennial Congress on July 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
It will be quite an event for Peirce scholars. My proposed paper will be on applications of Peirce to film theory, and in particular the two neo- (quasi-?) Peircian approaches that I present in Ecologies of the Moving Image. The first of these builds on Sean Cubitt’s three-part typology of the image (pixel–cut–vector, which I […]
Morton’s poetry
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged aesthetics, object-oriented philosophy, process-, Tim Morton on October 2, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Tim Morton writes beautifully. His “Objects as Temporary Autonomous Zones,” published in the most recent issue of Continent, is a beautiful illustration of this. I could say he writes poetically, but that would be suggesting that his writing is not itself poetry, but only looks and feels like poetry — which would mean succumbing to […]
What a bodymind can do – Part 3
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged aesthetics, Buddhism, ecology, emergence, ethics, flow, logic, Peirce, Shinzen Young, Whitehead, Wilber on May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is the concluding part of a three-part article. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here. They should be read in the sequence in which they were published. The True, the Good, and the Beautiful All of this can be related to the triad of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful […]
Cronon, Chomsky/Foucault, & public reason
Posted in Academe, BlogStuff, MediaSpace, tagged aesthetics, Chomsky, Cronon, Foucault, Politics, process-relational thought, Wisconsin on March 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Bill Cronon-Wisconsin Republican party tangle is making me — and many others, judging by the responses I’ve seen on academic listservs — think a little more deeply about how we use our e-mail addresses. Like many, I’m troubled by the possibility that someone could ask to see my e-mail correspondence on any old topic. […]
aesthetics & Peirce in the Santa Monica Mountains
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged aesthetics, ecological aesthetics, Peirce, travel on March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I like to follow extended think-fests (such as conferences) with brief flights away from cerebrality, at least for a couple of days where possible. So following the SCMS, I visited the Santa Monica Mountains, which included a hike up La Jolla Canyon and Mugu Peak at the northern end of the range, and another up […]
Bigelow, Cameron, & the aesthetics of immersion
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged aesthetics, Avatar, cinema on March 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Steven Shaviro has a very nice post about Kathryn Bigelow following her Best Picture and Best Director wins at the Oscars. Shaviro celebrates her “poetics of vision” and aesthetics of “sensory immersion.” On her earlier film Point Break, he writes: “everything comes out of, and returns back to, the element of water. Bigelow shows us […]
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