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NT4: Jane Bennett walks into a bar with an OOO

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on May 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Our morning plenarist is Jane Bennett, whose work has been discussed extensively on this blog before (e.g., here). Introduction by Kennan Ferguson: will Jane B. be throwing down a gauntlet? Jane Bennett: “Systems & Things: a materialist and an object-oriented philosopher walk into a bar…”

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Vibrant Matter round-up & final thoughts

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

There’ve been smatterings of commentary on the posts dedicated to specific chapters of Vibrant Matter, but not the kind of extended arguments I had originally anticipated (before reading the book). So I’m guessing we may be wrapping up this cross-blog reading group (though Scu may still post on chapter 8). To the list of entries, […]

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wrapping up Vibrant Matter

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on June 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The five week long, cross-blog reading group on Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter is wrapping up this week, with the discussion officially moving here for the final stretch. Here’s what’s been written so far (at least what I’ve seen):

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Bennett’s thing-power

Posted in Philosophy on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The Vibrant Matter Reading Group has launched: see Peter Gratton’s generous flow of postings at Philosophy in a Time of Error, all linked here. What follows is my first series of thoughts on the book, with a focus on chapter 1. I’ll try to add bits of these as appropriate to the comments in Peter’s […]

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Vibrant Matter reading group

Posted in Blog stuff, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , on May 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »

The previously announced ‘Vibrant Matter’ reading group will take place across five blogs over five weeks, beginning May 23 and ending June 26. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things is the latest book by Johns Hopkins University political theorist Jane Bennett. Philosophy in a Time of Error has posted a very useful overview of […]

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Primer

Posted in on June 10, 2014 | 3 Comments »

Here is a thematic primer to this blog, running from the more theoretical to the more down-to-earth topics it covers. Click on the links to go to the articles. (And another way to find things is by following the categories.) Post-constructivism & ‘Speculative Realism’ Between Continental & environmental philosophy Imagination & contemporary theory Integralism & […]

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NT5: Shaviro on panpsychism

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »

I took a break from live-blogging [added later: I had originally written “love-bloggin” LOL. I won’t correct other typos, but there’re probably many of them here] during the break-out sessions, taking advantage of the time to work a bit more on my own paper, to be given this afternoon. I’m picking things up now with […]

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On not going to sleep (during blackouts)

Posted in Politics, Visual culture on May 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

An in-law sent me a PDF of this rudely hilarious little picture book that would warm the cruel heart (or maybe cruel the warm heart) of every new parent. Turns out the artist, Ricardo Cortes, does great little books like Sketches of the Drug Wars and the celebration of power blackouts pictured above (both links […]

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A world of becoming

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on January 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »

William Connolly’s A World of Becoming arrived in the mail yesterday. It looks wonderful, and only two chapters appear to include material that has been previously published in any form (both very recent), which means this is all quite new. If I had the time and the energy, I would try to organize a cross-blog […]

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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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signatures

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In Chapter Eight of Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett asks: “Are there more everyday tactics for cultivating an ability to discern the vitality of matter?” and, in response, mentions allowing oneself to anthropomorphize, to relax into resemblances discerned across ontological divides: you (mis)take the wind outside at night for your father’s wheezy breathing in the next […]

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partitions of the sensible

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on June 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »

The following began as a summary of the final chapter of Vibrant Matter, but it somehow mutated into something more like a position statement (which I hope doesn’t sound like too much of a rant). But I’ll let it go as it is, running the risk of speaking too loudly to no one in particular, […]

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