Interviews are funny things: you have to think on the spot, but later realize how deeply and profoundly imperfect (!) was your choice of words. The Imperfect Buddha Podcast has an interview with me in which host Matthew O’Connor (of Post-Traditional Buddhism) and I talk at length about Buddhism, process-relational metaphysics, panpsychism, social constructionism, cognitive science, […]
Posts Tagged ‘process-relational thought’
Interview & autobio
Posted in SpiritMatter, tagged Adrian Ivakhiv, autobiography, Buddhism, Dzogchen, interviews, Lacan, meditation, pagan studies, paganism, Peirce, post-traditional Buddhism, process-relational thought, religion, Shinzen Young, spirituality, Whitehead, Zizek on May 31, 2016 | 3 Comments »
Rethinking the 3 categories
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged categories, ecocriticism, EMI, film-philosophy, Guattari, Peirce, process-relational thought, three ecologies, triadism, Whitehead on February 9, 2016 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been struggling with how my triadic framework for interpreting art works relates to C. S. Peirce’s categories. When I first developed my triadism (fleshed out in Ecologies of the Moving Image) into the non-Peircian terms of materiality, experience, and representation — which I did in the context of teaching a course on the environmental arts — […]
Harman’s reply
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Harman, Latour, object-oriented philosophy, process-relational thought, speculative realism on June 9, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Graham Harman’s reply to my critical response to his book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political, which appeared as part of a book symposium in Global Discourse earlier this year, is readable online, here. I won’t address the details of that reply here. Some of them relate to our divergent interpretations of Latour, and since Harman has now written two books (and more) about […]
“Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema” talk
Posted in Anthropocene, MediaSpace, tagged animation, Anthropocene, biosemiosis, capitalocene, carbon capitalism, cinema, documentary, ecocinema studies, ecomedia, media theory, post-cinema, process-relational thought on May 5, 2015 | 2 Comments »
The video of my talk on “Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema: Cinema In and Beyond the Capitalocene,” is now up on Vimeo and at Shane Denson’s web site. It is from the SCMS panel “Post-Cinema and/as Speculative Media Theory,” featuring Steven Shaviro, Patricia Pisters, and Mark Hansen. I discuss the archive, the cloud, the common, the slippery morphing image […]
Dupré on process biology
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged biology, John Dupré, philosophy of science, process philosophy, process-relational thought on September 1, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Writing in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science blog Auxiliary Hypotheses, widely published University of Exeter philosopher John Dupré recently announced a project entitled A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology (PROBIO). According to Dupré, who is director of Egenis, the Center for the Study of the Life Sciences (formerly the ESRC Center for Genomics and Society), […]
“Beatnik Brothers” in Parrhesia
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Deleuze, Graham Harman, Nonhuman Turn, object-oriented philosophy, process philosophy, process-relational thought, speculative realism, Whitehead on June 21, 2014 | 4 Comments »
The new issue of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy includes work by Quentin Meillassoux, Tristan Garcia, a review panel discussing Katrin Pahl’s Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion, and a piece by me on the objects-processes debate in speculative realist philosophy. The latter, entitled “Beatnik Brothers? Between Graham Harman and the Deleuzo-Whiteheadian Axis,” is an updated version […]
Quaking the subject
Posted in SpiritMatter, tagged Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Peirce, process-relational thought, Shinzen Young, spiritual practice, Whitehead on April 13, 2014 | 4 Comments »
This post continues my thinking on the topic of a process-relational “bodymind practice” — an existential art or “technique of the self” building on Buddhist meditation practice reinterpreted and augmented through process-relational philosophy. In this post, I incorporate insights obtained through the practice of Quaker silent worship. See the posts “ What a bodymind can do” parts 1, 2, 3, and update for background […]
Lava lampy Whitehead?
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Bogost, lava lampy materialism, Morton, object-oriented philosophy, process-relational thought, Whitehead on November 30, 2013 | 1 Comment »
While I find much to admire in Tim Morton’s writings (and in him personally, as I’ve recently related), I’m sure he knows that his writing on what he calls “lava lampy materialism” leaves me unconvinced. (I’ve discussed that topic here, here, and elsewhere.) I haven’t read his Realist Magic yet, so I can’t comment on […]
What’s real
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Buddhism, Politics, process-relational thought, Whitehead on October 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Conversation overheard between an ambitious grad student and a simpleminded process-relational philosopher . . . Jake Wanano-Everton: Sir, where do you draw the line between what’s real and what’s not real? Prof. Noah Fewthings: The only things that are real are the moments of experienced reality — drops of experience, let’s […]
“14 billion years” (a pet peeve)
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged process-relational thought, space, temporality, time on September 13, 2013 | 7 Comments »
When people say “the universe began 14 billion years ago,” do they realize that this is not true in the slightest? It’s not true not because they aren’t measuring things accurately. Rather, it’s not true because the standards of measurement cannot have possibly remained unchanged over such a time period. To put it crudely, this […]
The conceptual machine
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged categories, Deleuze, ecosophy-G, ontology, Peirce, process-relational thought, Whitehead on July 13, 2013 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always been more of an improviser than a long-range planner, but my job requires that I occasionally dabble in long-range projections of my work. Here’s one. While a number of concerns have framed my scholarship over the years — ethical, political, cultural, ecological, and theoretical concerns — the philosophical core of it has been […]
How a film becomes a subject
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged cinema, process-relational thought, Up the Yangtze on May 28, 2013 | 1 Comment »
A key question for a process-relational account of a film is the question of how that film shows objects and subjects in the process of being made — how it shows subjectivation and objectivation arising together. Much of Ecologies of the Moving Image is about this, but what remains more implicit throughout the book is the way […]
Categories
- Anthropocene (33)
- EcoCulture (146)
- GeoPhilosophy (236)
- MediaSpace (206)
- ImageNation (83)
- SoundScape (27)
- Politics (124)
- SpiritMatter (96)
- Xyz… (174)
Archives
-
Recent Posts
Subscribe2
-
-
-
