Hearing the announcement of Bruno Latour‘s death earlier today, I remembered his visit to the Feverish World symposium, which I co-organized in 2018 in Burlington, Vermont. Despite his health (which was turning for the worse at the time), he participated gracefully in this strange mixture of conference, festival, and street event, and gave a great […]
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R.i.p., Bruno Latour
Posted in Eco-theory, tagged Bruno Latour, constructionism, deconstruction, Feverish World, social constructionism on October 9, 2022 | 1 Comment »
Emotional practices, part 1: Affective neuroscience
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged affect theory, affective neuroscience, Charles Hampden-Turner, constructionism, constructivism, emotions, G. I. Gurdjieff, Lisa Feldman Barrett, neurophenomenology, neuropolitics, neuropsychology, politics of affect, practices of the self, Rami Gabriel, Stephen Asma on August 16, 2020 | 4 Comments »
The study of emotions, particularly within the field of affective neuroscience, is a complex field riven by paradigmatic division. In my book Shadowing the Anthropocene, I proposed a way to engage with one’s experience, including one’s emotional or affective experience, within an “eco-ethico-aesthetic” (or “logo-ethico-aesthetic”) practice that could help us deal with the “Anthropocene predicament.” […]
More on constructions: gun, hammer, or scaffold?
Posted in Philosophy, tagged constructionism, constructivism, Latour, postmodernism on May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The comments on this previous post resulted in my doing a bit of quick research (methodology: googling) on how often the terms “constructivism” and “constructionism” get used in relation to certain theorists and theoretical terms. Here are the results. I’ve put the “winning” terms in bold:
For a moratorium on “constructivism”
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged biology, biosemiotics, constructionism, constructivism, ecology, social constructivism on April 30, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I’d like to call a moratorium on the use of the word “constructivism” (or “constructionism”) to refer only to social constructivism. (This post was prompted by Tim Morton’s Object-Oriented Strategies for Ecological Art, but his point there is somewhat differently directed and mine addresses a more general issue that can still be found in a […]
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