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Posthumanist redistributions of the sensible

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2021 | 3 Comments »

Theory has a mobile army of metaphors that account for its own importance. The vanguardist notion of a “cutting edge” has long served as a paradigmatic metaphor for theoretical innovation, and it’s one I take issue with in my article “Is the Post- in Posthuman the Post- in Postmodern? Or What Can the Human Be?,” […]

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SR, or Morton on The Universe of Things

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on July 28, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Tim Morton has penned a nice (if thoroughly Mortonish) introduction to a very nice introduction (by Steven Shaviro) to speculative realism. With lines like these:

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Books of the decade in ecocultural theory

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on December 19, 2010 | 24 Comments »

What books, published over the last ten years, have contributed most cogently and profoundly to our thinking about the relationship between culture and nature, ecology and society? (That’s to name just two of the dualisms this blog regularly throws into question.) Who have been the most important ecocultural theorists so far this century? And which […]

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readings

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged , , on February 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I’m reading, and being very impressed by, John Protevi’s recent book Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic. The book brings together a lot of recent work on affect with the best of the cognitive sciences (embodied/embedded/distributive/enactive cognition), complexity and nonlinear dynamical systems theories, and a strong grounding in philosophy, from Aristotle to Kant […]

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more on Tehran

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on June 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Planomenology‘s Reid Kane has posted an extensive analysis of the Iranian events from a perspective informed by Zizek and Agamben, among others — the first I’ve seen in this vein, though I’m anticipating others like it in the left-philosophical blogosphere. The piece draws too much, for my taste, on a monolithic (Marxist) understanding of capital […]

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immanence & codependent origination

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I took a break from reading John Mullarkey’s Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline – in which Mullarkey develops a philosophy of immanence drawing on, and critiquing, the respective efforts of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Michel Henry, and Francois Laruelle – to have some lunch and browse the latest issue of Tricycle. One of the articles, a […]

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imagination & contemporary theory

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This is a summary I provided to a grad student who was starting to get into this area. It’s very introductory and far from complete in its coverage, but since there’s so little out there on this topic, I thought it would be useful to post it. It’s also a bit biased towards literature that’s […]

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On ground and groundlessness: Jamesonian Marxism v. Derridean deconstruction v. Buddhist onto-phenomenalism (w/ guest appearances by Lacan and Freud, spiked all the way through with ecology)

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Or, Toward an eco-Buddhist-processualist cultural criticism Note: This is work in progress and probably won’t be published for a while, and not in this form in any case. It comes from an attempt to theorize an ‘ecocritical’ understanding of culture that is in dialogue with the Marxist tradition of social and political analysis, Derridean poststructural […]

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