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Eco-querying The Dawn of Everything

Posted in Eco-theory, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 21, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

The Immanent Frame, the Social Science Research Council’s forum on religion, secularism, and the public sphere, is in the midst of publishing a series of responses to David Graeber’s and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything. My contribution, entitled “The Dawn of Everything Good?“, appeared last week. The series can be read here. The following […]

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“Illiberalism” & the utopian deficit

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2018 | 4 Comments »

An off-the-cuff essay, written not for any particular occasion, but just to get it out of me. It’s probably mostly common knowledge (among people on the green left), just maybe not well articulated yet, and too easily forgotten. Politically, we’re all playing a little catch-up these days. Understanding the apparent global turn we are seeing […]

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the politics of objects & relations

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »

The objects versus relations debate has revved up again over at Larval Subjects, in the commentary responding to Levi Bryant’s Questions about the possibility of non-correlationist ethics. The debate, as I would describe it, circles around the following question: If we agree that traditional philosophy has been too centrally premised on the relationship between humans […]

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radical orthodoxies, left & right. . .

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on November 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Slavoj Zizek’s engagement with theologians like radical orthodoxist John Milbank continues to perplex me a little bit, but having heard him speak a few days ago with death-of-God theologian Thomas Altizer at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Montreal left me reassured me that Zizek is far from the wildest (and zaniest) mind out […]

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socialism or not: Lessig responds to Kelly

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s […]

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‘After 1968’ & the blessedness of the Buddho-Spinozan

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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