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Reading AIME

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , on November 8, 2013 | 3 Comments »

I’m just managing to keep up with the Latour/AIME reading groups (both the one on my campus and the online one organized by Adam Robbert et al.), but not so much with the commentaries. Here’s my first brief reflection on the book… 1. You know that a scholar has made it to the top of […]

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Latourian inquiries

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on August 22, 2013 | 3 Comments »

Bruno Latour fans will know that the French anthropologist’s long-awaited follow-up to 1991’s game-changing theoretical provocation We Have Never Been Modern was released in its English translation just a few weeks ago. The book is called An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence (and is becoming better known by its acronym “AIME”), and it provides a […]

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AAR panel on Latour’s Gifford Lectures

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , on June 19, 2013 | 2 Comments »

The AAR panel responding to 2013 Holberg Prize winner Bruno Latour’s Gifford Lectures has now been scheduled. Information is as follows. QUERYING NATURAL RELIGION: IMMANENCE, GAIA, & THE PARLIAMENT OF LIVELY THINGS

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The beatnik brotherhood

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on May 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Graham Harman’s note reiterating his position that Whitehead, Latour, Deleuze, Bergson, and Simondon (among others) do not make up a coherent philosophical “lump” — “pack” or “tribe” might be more colorful terms here (if philosophers were cats, how herdable would they be?) — makes me want to clarify my own position on these thinkers.

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More on constructions: gun, hammer, or scaffold?

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , 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:

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On animism, multinaturalism, & cosmopolitics

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 10, 2011 | 15 Comments »

Since there isn’t much available in English about Philippe Descola’s writings on animism, I thought I would share a piece of the cosmopolitics argument I mentioned in my last post. It will appear, in modified form, in the concluding chapter of the SAR Press volume mentioned there. Most of the volume will consist of ethnographic […]

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On anthropomorphism: making humans, pencils, & souls

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on December 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Tim Morton has recently been suggesting that just as humans anthropomorph (that’s a verb), so pencils pencilmorph. I love this idea, though I’m not sure about its implications, which I want to think through here. Anthropomorphism #1 (traditional, & its extensions) The traditional definition of anthropomorphism is something like “the attribution of human characteristics to […]

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those potent French narcotics…

Posted in Academe, tagged , , on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Himanshu at Doxic Shock shares a couple of great Latourisms… The details may be past their expiry dates (the generalities less so), but they’re still pretty funny.* For a French person, saying that facts are constructed is a banality. Relativism is like an infantile disease: for us, who contract it in our high school philosophy […]

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theory videos

Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged on April 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »

One can find an increasing number of videotaped lectures online by today’s better known cultural theorists. But lectures are lectures, and the best audio-visual teaching tools remain full-fledged documentaries like Manufacturing Consent, An Examined Life, or Slavoj Zizek’s Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, and these remain all too rare. Somewhere in between the two are small-budget, […]

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still process-relations all the way down

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Keeping up with Graham Harman means continually being tempted to respond to him, and since he doesn’t allow comments on his blog, for reasons I completely understand, I can only hold my tongue or flap it here. (Or I can do the respectful thing and write up a lengthier and more in-depth argument, but that […]

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Things slip away… (on Harman’s Latourian object lessons)

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , on September 9, 2009 | 33 Comments »

Continuing from yesterday’s post on Graham Harman… (Warning: This post is long.) Where Tool-Being presented a Heidegger flushed clean of his anthropocentrism, Prince of Networks takes Bruno Latour for a ride on a philosophical adventure toward a world not of actors and networks but of objects, pure if not so simple. The book’s first half […]

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prairie dogs & cosmopolitics in Santa Fe

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Over the past several days I’ve gone from the cool wetness of Alaska’s southeast coast to the high dryness of north-central New Mexico. The first was pure holiday, accompanied by loved ones (including those who generously funded it) and featuring glaciers, salmon, a black bear (devouring one of the salmon), a ride on one of […]

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