{"id":4849,"date":"2011-06-27T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2011-06-27T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:25:16","slug":"anti-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/06\/27\/anti-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-life… (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So what’s all this anti-vitalism<\/a> wafting on the (post-) Continental wind? What\u2019s it working from? (Thacker<\/a>? Others?)\u00a0 Is it anything more than another round of vanguardism (\u201cnot enough to revitalize matter, let\u2019s devitalize life while we\u2019re at it\u201d — another version of the old Stalinist jingle about not being able to make an omelet without breaking some eggs)?<\/p>\n

Anyone who was at the conference, or with the time (and a strong enough internet connection, which I don’t seem to have at the moment) to listen to the audio recordings<\/a> from it, care to summarize?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So what’s all this anti-vitalism wafting on the (post-) Continental wind? What\u2019s it working from? (Thacker? Others?)\u00a0 Is it anything more than another round of vanguardism (\u201cnot enough to revitalize matter, let\u2019s devitalize life while we\u2019re at it\u201d — another version of the old Stalinist jingle about not being able to make an omelet without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688977],"tags":[25029,4429,24832,25028],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo_philosophy","tag-anti-vitalism","tag-continental-philosophy","tag-life","tag-vitalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1gd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1263,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/15\/vibrant-matter-reading-group\/","url_meta":{"origin":4849,"position":0},"title":"Vibrant Matter reading group","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The previously announced 'Vibrant Matter' reading group will take place across five blogs over five weeks, beginning May 23 and ending June 26. 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