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Posts Tagged ‘Whitehead’

Rethinking the 3 categories

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 9, 2016 | 4 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 — […]

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“Beatnik Brothers” in Parrhesia

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , 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 […]

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Quaking the subject

Posted in Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , 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 […]

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Whiteheadian films

Posted in Cinema, tagged , , , on January 16, 2014 | 4 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.”)

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Lava lampy Whitehead?

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , 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 […]

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What’s real

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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The conceptual machine

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , 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 […]

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Shaviro interview

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged , , , 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 […]

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On the subject(s) of experience

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , on December 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »

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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For the moment

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , on May 14, 2012 | 8 Comments »

Now that a very busy semester has ended, I can return to the constructive speculative-metaphysical strand of this blog, in which I work out the process-relational philosophy I’ve tentatively labelled Ecosophy-G. A suitable acronym for this project might be “pre-G” (process-relational ecosophy-G), pronounced “pree-jee,” with the “pre” also indicating that the philosophy is a form […]

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Whitehead’s return, ecology’s boon

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2012 | 12 Comments »

“Ultimately, the thinking of speculative pragmatism that is activist philosophy belongs to nature. Its aesthetico-politics compose a nature philosophy. The occurrent arts in which it exhibits itself are politics of nature. “The one-word summary of its relational-qualitative goings on: ecology. Activist philosophy concerns the ecology of powers of existence. Becomings in the midst. Creative change […]

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On theism/nihilism & other things

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on July 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Speculative Realist blogosphere has recently been alight with debates over the role of religion, God, theism versus nihilism, the secular and the “post-secular,” and other such things. Since these are topics I’m naturally interested, and somewhat invested, in, I ought to participate, but time constraints have made that all but impossible for me recently. […]

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