This post follows up on my previous note about Alfred North Whitehead’s time spent in Greensboro, Vermont. It was updated on July 7, 2016, thanks to information obtained from the Mitchells’ descendants. I have found out where the Whiteheads stayed when he was writing his philosophical magnum opus, Process and Reality. It was in a two-story cottage owned by economist Wesley […]
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Whitehead in Greensboro
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Greensboro, Greensboro VT, place and philosophy, Process and Reality, Vermont, Whitehead on July 6, 2016 | 2 Comments »
Whitehead’s genius loci
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, genius loci, Greensboro VT, place and philosophy, Process and Reality, Vermont, Whitehead on June 20, 2016 | 1 Comment »
I was astounded to read the following passage as I sat in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake in Greenboro, Vermont, earlier today: “Work on ‘The Concept of Organism’ began with the summer of 1927, which the Whiteheads spent in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake, in Greensboro, Vermont. It was there […]
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 »
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, […]
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 — […]
“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 […]
Whiteheadian films
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged cinema, film, Whitehead, Whitehead Film Festival, Whiteheadian aesthetic on January 16, 2014 | 3 Comments »
Readers of this blog know that my recent book presents what’s essentially a Whiteheadian (and Peircian) theory of cinema. (A theory, not the theory. And when compared to something as deeply Whiteheadian in its details as, say, Donald Sherburne’s A Whiteheadian Aesthetic, mine is, at best, “inspired by Whitehead.”)
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 […]
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 […]
Shaviro interview
Posted in Academe, GeoPhilosophy, tagged Shaviro, Simondon, tenure, Whitehead on February 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
A few cousin blogs have already mentioned Figure/Ground’s interview with Steven Shaviro, which I recommend for those interested in Whitehead, speculative realism, media theory, and other themes explored on this blog. Shaviro has insightful things to say about Isabelle Stengers’ role in reviving an interest in Whitehead, Gilbert Simondon and his (and Whitehead’s) relevance for […]
On the subject(s) of experience
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged pre-G, process-relational thought, subjectivity, Whitehead on December 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This continues the consideration of subjectivity begun in the last post (on Zizek and Buddhism). It also continues the series on process-relational ecosophy-G, or pre-G.
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