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, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Buddhism’
when bad things happen (karma running over dogma)
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged Bennett, Buddhism, deconstruction, Deleuze, mortality, Whitehead on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
‘After 1968’ & the blessedness of the Buddho-Spinozan
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged affect, Agamben, Buddhism, Deleuze, Dzogchen, Madhyamika, mindfulness, political theory, post-marxism, poststructuralism, Spinoza on April 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There’s a wealth of material in post-marxist and poststructuralist political philosophy to be found at the After 1968 web site, which documents a series of seminars and lectures held in Maastricht over the last few years. You can find texts by Agamben, Deleuze, Badiou, Ranciere, Baudrillard, Negri, Derrida, Nancy, and others there, though it will […]
finds
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Buddhism on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Warwick philosophy journal Pli has made some back issues available on-line, including issues on Romanticism, Science, Nature, and Nietzsche. A few particularly recommended articles: Isabelle Stengers, “God’s Heart and the Stuff of Life“, John Sellars, “The point of view of the cosmos: Deleuze, Romanticism, Stoicism,” Alain Badiou, “Who is Nietzsche?,” and the Nomadic Trajectories issue, […]
immanence & codependent origination
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, immanence, psychoanalysis, theory on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I took a break from reading John Mullarkey’s Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline – in which Mullarkey develops a philosophy of immanence drawing on, and critiquing, the respective efforts of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Michel Henry, and Francois Laruelle – to have some lunch and browse the latest issue of Tricycle. One of the articles, a […]
On ground and groundlessness: Jamesonian Marxism v. Derridean deconstruction v. Buddhist onto-phenomenalism (w/ guest appearances by Lacan and Freud, spiked all the way through with ecology)
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, Derrida, ecocriticism, Jameson, Madhyamika, Marxism, psychoanalysis, theory, Zizek on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Or, Toward an eco-Buddhist-processualist cultural criticism Note: This is work in progress and probably won’t be published for a while, and not in this form in any case. It comes from an attempt to theorize an ‘ecocritical’ understanding of culture that is in dialogue with the Marxist tradition of social and political analysis, Derridean poststructural […]
immanence and field-being
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, Ontology, epistemology on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An excellent source of current philosophical thinking on issues related to this blog from an Asian perspective (primarily Buddhist and Daoist) is the International Journal for Field-Being, which is published by the International Institute for Field-Being. “Field-being” is one of the terms Asian thinkers (and translators) have used to encompass a kind of non-essentialist ontology […]
rigpa meets anima…
Posted in Eco-theory, Uncategorized, tagged animism, Buddhism, Dzogchen on December 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Rigpa is the state of compassionate awareness that, according to Mahayana Buddhism, is the innermost nature of the mind. It is the primordial, nondual mind that shines through when unobscured; intelligent, cognizant, awake. “Empty in essence, cognizant in nature, unconfined in capacity.” Recognizing and dwelling within rigpa is the goal of Dzogchen practice (a kind […]