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from Lacan to soil, neurophysiology, & happiness

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been impressed and even moved by a few recent posts over at Larval Subjects. “Electro-Chemical Signifiers” describes the author’s transformation from full-fledged Lacanian (both theorist and analyst) to something that seems much broader and welcoming of the world. Not, of course, that Lacanians cannot be broad and welcoming of the world; I’m only judging […]

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cultural studies’ biosemiotic turn?

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »

One of the impressive recent efforts to bring the physical sciences and the social sciences and humanities back onto “consilient” speaking terms (to use E. O. Wilson’s terminology, though his own efforts at this have been unimpressive) is Wendy Wheeler’s The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture. Wheeler is a humanist, an […]

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