This course (an Honors College course I’m happy to be to teaching this year) is already in progress, but I’d be curious to hear any comments on it. What would you include in a comparative overview of spiritual practices? What’s missing? Self-Cultivation and Spiritual Practice: Comparative Perspectives This course introduces students to the comparative study […]
Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’
Comparative ‘practicology’: Philosophy as a way of life
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged Foucault, Hadot, philosophy, practices of the self, practicology, self-cultivation, spiritual practice, spirituality on January 21, 2018 | 21 Comments »
The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged Academe, anthropology, bifurcation of nature, disciplinarity, Foucault, geography, interdisciplinarity, Morris Berman, Occupy Anthropology, philosophy, political ecology, transdisciplinarity on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What makes an -ologist, -osopher, -ographer? What, for instance, makes one an anthropologist? A geographer? A philosopher? A scientist? Scene 1: As chair of a search committee looking to hire a political ecologist, a tenure-track position to be shared between a Geography department and an Environmental Studies program, I’ve been involved in intensive discussion of […]
s(S)peculative r(R)ealism & philosophy-as-life
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged correlationism, ethics, Meillassoux, philosophy, speculative realism, Whitehead on February 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »
It’s nice to see Speculative Realism capturing the attention of SF writer and all-round idea impresario Bruce Sterling – see his Speculative Realism as “philosophy fiction.” As a long-time SF lover, the idea of “philosophy fiction” has always appealed to me. Some of the best writing in the genre has been profoundly metaphysical, which is […]
Examining life, trash, & radical nature
Posted in Philosophy, Visual culture, tagged ecology, film, Morton, nature, philosophy, Zizek on February 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCfiv1xtoU I enjoyed Astra Taylor’s film Examined Life when I first saw it a couple of years ago, and, having just watched it again, I’m glad to see that it bears re-viewing. As one might expect, some segments are more lasting than others. Slavoj Zizek wearing an orange safety vest talking about ecology at a […]
digital agora
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged Academe, blogosphere, philosophy on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Levi has an interesting post on how the internet is changing the way philosophy gets done. [. . . ]
Still, it’s nice to dream of a world in which philosophy and the liberal arts aren’t seen as unprofitable appendages left over from an era of bloated welfare states (a neoliberal narrative that is deeply problematic), but where they are vital nodes within a culture of social and ecological transformation — not because philosophy feeds social change in some direct, instrumental way, but because of a shared recognition between philosophers and activists of how and why it is that we have come to live in a world of oil spills and economic crises, and how and why it could be all different.
Isis takes Hadot
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Hadot, paganism, philosophy on April 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Pierre Hadot died yesterday. An important influence on the later Foucault, a classicist whose readings of ancient Greco-Roman philosophers made them seem relevant once again, and an astute defender of the Orphic (as opposed to the Promethean) approach to Nature, Hadot’s influence was felt by many for whom philosophy is more than just a conceptual […]
on politics & ontology
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, tagged art, philosophy, Politics, speculative realism on November 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
(For some reason, this didn’t go out over Google Reader, so I’m re-posting it…) The Speculative Realist blogosphere has been abuzz over the relationship between ontology and politics. Nick Srnicek’s post at Speculative Heresy – and the many comments on it – provide a good entry point to this discussion. Nick has wisely redrawn his […]