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Algorithm and Contingency
February 11, 2012
Some (very quick) thoughts on Critical Engineering
I’ve been following an interesting thread over on the Empyre forums between Cesar Baio, Simon Biggs, Davin Heckman and Gabriel Menotti. It’s basically a conversation on the ambiguous nature of accessible artworks created by technology and in particular, computing programming languages. I was struck by a comment made by Julian Oliver (who recently showed some [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 11, 2012
students protesting today against the junta
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Ecology without Nature
February 11, 2012
My ELN Essay "Waking Up Inside an Object"
Just got my hard copy. It's an essay on ecology and OOO.They've done marvelous things with English Language Notes. I think they won some awards for it. Really high quality thing to hold in your hands. Book ended by me and (at the front) my colleague and friend David Simpson. “The Shape of the Signifier” is the theme. I'll be seeing those guys in Boulder in April, can't wait to go back there.
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Digital Digs
February 11, 2012
pursuing a busted ontology
I had the pleasure of being part of a great panel yesterday at UT-Austin on rhetoric, memory, and technology. Put briefly, my talk examined memory's role in rethinking rhetoric's ontological foundations. In the conversations that followed, one of the questions...
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 11, 2012
one student protest image
The bass drum in front is a nice touch. The poster closest to the front is a photo of Karim from the German University in Cairo, who was killed in the Port Said massacre on February 1.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 11, 2012
AUC students respond to SCAF
The only version I have right now is an image rather than text, and difficult to read on this page. But it was a nice response to the junta. Cairo University students also issued a statement in support of American University students. And funniest of all, yesterday (can’t remember if I mentioned this or not) [...]
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Ecology without Nature
February 10, 2012
History of Criticism 10: Hume and Young (MP3)
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Ecology without Nature
February 10, 2012
More on Symbionts and Your Brain
HT Cliff Gerrish. My brother, who has schizophrenia, was very small when our first cat showed up. One of his first acts was to try to eat the cat's food...I wonder, given this piece and what I've been saying in talks recently.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 10, 2012
objects in performance
THIS CONFERENCE in New York is already over, but I was just told about it tonight. (Hat tip, Vera.)
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Pagan Metaphysics
February 10, 2012
In Memoriam: John Hick (1922-2012)
Dr. Yujin Nagasawa of the University of Birmingham reports the death of Professor John Hick, who died peacefully yesterday.  An influential figure in analytic philosophy of religion and a nice, humble guy too.  I had the pleasure of seeing him speak a couple of times while I was an undergraduate at Lampeter in the 1990s.  Nagasawa reports:John was Danforth Professor of Philosophy of [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 10, 2012
A Quick Remark on Flat Ontology
Someone might remark that because a text has multiple layers there can be no flat ontology of the text. In other words, it is here asserted that where there is a logic of depths and surfaces there is necessarily a vertical ontology. However, this is precisely what flat ontology rejects. If we take seriously that [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 10, 2012
Of Withdrawal and Multiplicity
The central error to be avoided is that of treating unity and identity as determinations that precede objects. While objects there are, these objects are neither unities nor identities. No, they are multiplicities. The object-oriented philosopher, in a desperate gambit to preserve identity, declares that identity and unity are withdrawn. This strategem arises from an [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 10, 2012
tonight and tomorrow in Cairo
You can read HERE about marchers converging on the Defense Ministry tonight. The Ministry is located in Abbasiya, a bit of a walk from Tahrir, but certainly walkable. The protestors are calling for the immediate departure of SCAF (the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces) from power. So too are tomorrow’s protests, largely student-driven, though [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 10, 2012
travel ban for “suspects” in last fall’s Maspero massacre
All of the suspects seem to be Copts, from the very group that took all the casualties during that infamous incident. Coptic priests stealing automatic weapons from the Army. My imagination must be failing me today, because I can’t quite picture it. HERE. Every day I see 2 or 3 local news stories that make [...]
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Ecology without Nature
February 09, 2012
How to Read Any Poem, Anywhere, Class 9: Imagery (mp3)
Imagery can either be present or absent...from this there follows much...
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 09, 2012
the supposed AUC conspiracy
With our Student Union taking the lead in national civil disobedience beginning on Saturday, the “administrator of the SCAF Facebook page” (saddest hobby I’ve ever heard of) is accusing our university of a plot against Egypt. HERE So, it’s our turn to be painted as the enemies of the state. SCAF has gone on an [...]
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Ecology without Nature
February 08, 2012
Jorie Graham's Sea Change
She gave me a copy, so kindly, inscribed so nicely, when I spoke earlier this week at Harvard. I'm just starting to read them. There's a certain feeling about opening a fresh book of poems. A sense of strangeness, even slight fear. How will these open me?So it will take me some time to absorb them all—but the first thing I can say for sure is, this is a very physical collection of poems. When I he [...]
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Naught Thought
February 08, 2012
Ongoing projects…
Some somewhat banal updates about things I’m working on: 1 – For the Of Monsters, and Miracles conference at my home university of Western I am completing a piece called “A Weird Posthumanism” which is on Lovecraft and Luciana Parisi as making a kind of proto posthumanism together with their biological articulations of early planetary [...]
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Ecology without Nature
February 08, 2012
Are Whales Slaves
“A California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans.” HT Bill Benzon.
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Ecology without Nature
February 08, 2012
Amanda Beech Talk at UCD next Wednesday
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Ecology without Nature
February 08, 2012
Joy
“The sitting practice of meditation is the expression of celebration rather than falling into a trap or imprisonment. You no longer have to go through the exaggerated sociological, psychological, or bureaucratic trips that we create for ourselves. You could get into the practice simply and directly, starting with the breath. Get into it, simply go along with it, and work with it.”Trungpa Rinpoche
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Knowledge Ecology
February 08, 2012
Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter
Filed under: General Philosophy
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 08, 2012
Feenberg’s February 1 McLuhan Lecture
Laureano Ralon has posted Feenberg’s lecture from the Canadian Embassy in Berlin on the night of February 1, HERE. It was a good lecture with many nice handholds for the audience. But I won’t watch it again, primarily because I was sitting there in the front row, not realizing what was going on in Egypt [...]
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Ecology without Nature
February 08, 2012
Cell Tower Paranoia
So many students have noticed what I've noticed on campus for the last month or so. If you try to make a call or use the web within about 100 yards of Occupy, your find your phone is dead. Some people are saying this is just because a lot of people are using their phones in that area. Really? I don't see more than your average crowd there.My wife used to work with cell phone companies, siting towe [...]
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Ecology without Nature
February 08, 2012
Rachel Swinkin's Dissertation Done
I'm so proud of her. And it's excellent work. She's ready to file it. It will make a very strong contribution to studies of animality, philosophy, culture and art in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 08, 2012
angriest student newspaper editorial I’ve ever seen
The editorial was written by a personal friend of the late Omar Aly Mohsen, openly stating a specific conspiracy theory, and also openly calling on a mob to march from Tahrir to certain prisons and hospitals to wreak vengeance on three closely related people the author holds responsible for orchestrating the Port Said attacks from [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 08, 2012
U.S. military aid to Egypt
It’s $1.3 billion per year, and it may be cut off due to the recent criminal charges against a number of American NGO workers on absurdly paranoid charges of having supposedly paid the Tahrir protestors to protest. During last year’s Revolution, one well-informed author framed the U.S. military aid as of limited significance to the [...]
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Ian Bogost
February 07, 2012
Making Books
It's not the same as writing books — Back when his book The Textual Life of Airports was published in December, Christopher Schaberg reported what most authors do: seeing his book for the first time. "What a weird feeling," Chris wrote. "It resembles an object from outer space. Vaguely recognizable, yet totally alien at the same time."This is the experience of most authors. We say we "write [...]
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ANTHEM
February 07, 2012
Enemies like Bruno Latour
Two recordings of talks in the “My Best Fiend” series at Goldsmiths discussing Latour (among others), by David Oswell from Goldsmiths and Steve Fuller from the University of Warwick, have now been made available at the CSISP blog. David Oswell: ‘Dances with Wolves: Latour, Machiavelli and Us’ (December 6th, 2011) [The first part of the [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
February 07, 2012
Scientists (Trying) To Tear Down Publishers Walls
A great article on open access publishing and the sciences HERE. Needless to say I’m fully behind this, especially this bit: We’re mired in a system that wastes taxpayers’ money and unnecessarily restricts the flow of new knowledge. We scientists would like our journals to be “open access” – with the door of the journal’s website always [...]
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ANTHEM
February 07, 2012
Picture Editing After Bataille
In reference to my earlier post on Critical Dictionary, here is the invitation to the show and a conversation with the editor: Join us on Wednesday 15 February, 6.30-8pm for the next in our series of AfterWORK events: One Plus One: Picture Editing After Bataille David Evans and Patrizia di Bello In Conversation David Evans [...]
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Archive Fire
February 07, 2012
Daniel Everett on the Pirahã and Happiness Without God
The Pirahã: People Who Define Happiness Without Godby Daniel Everett  Above anthropologist Daniel Everett discusses the Pirahã at the 32nd Annual Freedom From Religion Foundation National Convention in Seattle, Washington. (November 7th, 2009)The Pirahã people (pronounced piɾaˈhã) are an indigenous hunter-gatherer tribe of Amazon natives who mainly live on the banks of the Maici Riv [...]
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ANTHEM
February 07, 2012
CfP: Making the World Happen
Making the World Happen: International Events and the Logistics of Globality 111th AAA annual meeting, Borders and Crossings, November 14-18, 2012, San Francisco, CA Paper abstracts are invited for this panel to be submitted to the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). International events (Olympic Games, World’s fairs, World cups, transnational meetings and [ [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 06, 2012
Thinking the Absolute
Of all the presentations I’ll be giving in the next few months, the one that’s caused me the most consternation is Liverpool Hope’s Thinking the Absolute conference. As described in its announcement, This conference invites proposals which critically consider this speculative turn in philosophy and its implications for thinking about religion. To what ‘end’ is [...]
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Naught Thought
February 06, 2012
CFP: “Theory Mad Beyond Redemption”: The Post-Kantian Poe
via Michael Austin call for papers for a special issue of The Edgar Allan Poe Review, forthcoming in Fall 2012, and guest-edited by Sean Moreland, Devin Zane Shaw, and Jonathan Murphy. The editors invite original essays that address the influence of German Idealist and Romantic thought upon Edgar Allan Poe. While it has become a [...]
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Archive Fire
February 06, 2012
Objects Potent and Active
nano-image of animal proteinLevi Bryant is at it again. In a recent series of posts Bryant articulates beautifully the nuances involved in thinking things as both process and substance simultaneously. Bryant argues that the substantiality of ‘objects’ is the thing’s activity. That is, objects or assemblages are acts.Plenty of interesting arguments could follow this insight - some of which I’m not [...]
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Complete Lies
February 06, 2012
CFP: “Theory Mad Beyond Redemption”: The Post-Kantian Poe
This looks to be a great volume. A call for papers for a special issue of The Edgar Allan Poe Review, forthcoming in Fall 2012, and guest-edited by Sean Moreland, Devin Zane Shaw, and Jonathan Murphy. The editors invite original … Continue reading →
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Knowledge Ecology
February 06, 2012
Navigating Datascapes With a Monadological View
I’ve just finished reading Bruno Latour et al’s paper “The Whole is Always Smaller Than its Parts.” I find myself walking away with several important insights that I think people will find useful, controversial, and, if nothing else, very interesting. Here are some of the main takeaway points: 1) The paper proposes a rehabilitation of [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 06, 2012
Addendum to “Substance and Act”: The Doer and the Deed
If, as I argued in an earlier post today and in a post entitled “Objectile and Agere” written long ago, to be a substance is to be an act, then Nietzsche’s conclusion follows as a matter of course. As Nietzsche writes in the third essay of On The Genealogy of Morals, [T]here is no “being” [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 06, 2012
Deleuze and Ethics
Over at Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews John Protevi has published an excellent review of Nathan Jun’s and Daniel W. Smith’s Deleuze and Ethics with Edinburgh University Press. Here’s a snippet chosen absolutely at random for no particular reason whatsoever: nstead of organizing this review by sequentially treating each essay, I will highlight three themes that [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 06, 2012
Substance as Act
Recently I’ve been rereading Etienne Gilson’s brilliant Being and Some Philosophers. The book is difficult to get these days, but if you’re interested in understanding the basic questions of metaphysics, I can think of few better books to read. Not only is Gilson’s book exceedingly clear, but it is tightly argued and nicely explores the [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 06, 2012
The Experimental Grounds for the Existence of Objects
I haven’t been posting must lately as I’ve been recovering from a persistent bout of the flu and basically feel as if I’m living at the bottom of the ocean where my cognition is concerned. Recently Dan has asked what it is that entitles me to claim that being is composed of substances, and has [...]
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Archive Fire
February 05, 2012
Laruelle on Truth and Philosophy
The following essay by the ‘non-philosopher’ François Laruelle is the only work of his I have read. My interest in this particular thinker flows from my interactions with Anthony Paul Smith and my intitial absorptions of the work of Ray Brassier. On the surface what I like about Laruelle is his appeal to the immanence of thought and his intention to move beyond the insular self-refl [...]
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Algorithm and Contingency
February 05, 2012
The longest URL for my blog
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Knowledge Ecology
February 05, 2012
Sunday Reading Part 2: Latour on Posthumanism
I posted Latour’s fantastic essay “Waiting for Gaia” already, but its just so good that its getting a re-post. In particular, this quotation is a good place to stop and think: Let us ponder a minute what is meant by the notion of “anthropocene”, this amazing lexical invention proposed by geologists to put a label [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
February 05, 2012
Sunday Reading Part 1: Tim Morton on Disaster Ecology
From THIS fine essay recently published: 9.        The ideology and the rhetoric of ecological disaster, then, have nothing to do with actual ecology. They are “environmentalist” in the same sense as some ideas about gender are sexist. That is, they set up the environment as a metaphysical construct on a pedestal, torn down, built up, worshipped, [...]
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Algorithm and Contingency
February 05, 2012
Berlin pics
I only managed to take three. But the first one is of a panel I attended on anonymous and viral modes of political engagement. As you can imagine, the Q&A of that session was, well, slightly weird. The second is the main building where Transmediale usually takes place, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt; a [...]
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Archive Fire
February 04, 2012
Ray Brassier on Wilfred Sellars and Animal Inferences
How to Train an Animal that Makes Inferences: Sellars on Rules and Regularities:  A juicy exchange between The Žižek and Brassier starting around 1:18:00 to about 1:32:00ish.
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Archive Fire
February 03, 2012
the mad ones
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live,mad to talk, mad to be saved…the ones who never yawnor say a commonplace thing,but burn, burn, burn,like fabulous yellow roman candlesexploding like spiders across the stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Naught Thought
February 03, 2012
Brassier’s “How to Train an Animal that makes Inferences” and Transcendental Dynamism
I found Ray Brassier’s recent talk on Sellars and Brandom quite interesting. What was particularly striking was Brassier’s comment that Sellars is a thinker of stratified processes, a project sounds utterly fascinating given my own attempts at trying to adequately (if speculatively) describe the relation of thought to nature. Furthermore, a critical focus of the [...]
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