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Vibrant Matter round-up & final thoughts

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

There’ve been smatterings of commentary on the posts dedicated to specific chapters of Vibrant Matter, but not the kind of extended arguments I had originally anticipated (before reading the book). So I’m guessing we may be wrapping up this cross-blog reading group (though Scu may still post on chapter 8). To the list of entries, […]

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Bennett’s conatus

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Just as I was getting ready to wind up the Bennett discussions yesterday, Scu posted a substantial piece about chapter 7, and promised more to come on chapter 8. I’m glad to see it, since I thought there could have been more discussion about both (and about some general issues throughout the book). Picking up […]

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signatures

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In Chapter Eight of Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett asks: “Are there more everyday tactics for cultivating an ability to discern the vitality of matter?” and, in response, mentions allowing oneself to anthropomorphize, to relax into resemblances discerned across ontological divides: you (mis)take the wind outside at night for your father’s wheezy breathing in the next […]

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partitions of the sensible

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on June 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »

The following began as a summary of the final chapter of Vibrant Matter, but it somehow mutated into something more like a position statement (which I hope doesn’t sound like too much of a rant). But I’ll let it go as it is, running the risk of speaking too loudly to no one in particular, […]

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wrapping up Vibrant Matter

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on June 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The five week long, cross-blog reading group on Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter is wrapping up this week, with the discussion officially moving here for the final stretch. Here’s what’s been written so far (at least what I’ve seen):

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half-way house

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The further I have gotten into Vibrant Matter, the more I have been thinking of it as a kind of half-way house on the route to a process-relational ontology. (I’ll admit I’ve read the whole book now, but I’m trying to defer my comments on the final chapter till next week. And I also strongly […]

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warning: objects may be faster than they appear

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , on June 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »

The Vibrant Matter reading group has moved over to Ben Woodard’s Naught Thought this week. Like Ben, I have felt a little apologetic for not participating in discussions (though I’ve summarized my thoughts so far here and here). But to be frank, the discussions have not been nearly as active as I had anticipated, and […]

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vibrant food & energy matters

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , on May 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Just a few quick notes on chapters 2 and 3 of Vibrant Matter. See Critical Animal for the continuing cross-blog discussion of the book (to be resumed after the Memorial Day holiday, no doubt), and Philosophy in a Time of Error for what’s been said so far. These two previously published chapters seem to me […]

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when bad things happen (karma running over dogma)

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »

We live in a universe of hazard, a place where asteroids strike, where car smash-ups pluck out a life like a boot squashing a centipede, where planes fall out of the sky, a heart attack takes a brother from behind in the middle of a night, a train runs over a friend’s passed out daughter, […]

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