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Ecology without Nature
February 03, 2012
Survival of the Beautiful
This looks very nice. Rothenberg is going to send me a copy, which is very kind of him. It's quite clear, as Darwin argues and I slavishly repeat in The Ecological Thought, that nonhumans have a sense of beauty.
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Ecology without Nature
February 03, 2012
Climate Change Conference, Canberra (CFP)
At Australian National University, August 27–28. I'm keynoting there.CALL FOR PAPERS:The Cultural History of Climate ChangeHumanities Research CentreAustralian National University27 – 28 August, 2012Historians since Herodotus have argued that climate shapes culture. We can no longer ignore the fact that culture also shapes climate. Today’s climate is increasingly an effect of the history of indust [...]
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Ecology without Nature
February 03, 2012
Shakti
For Graham. With Zakir Hussein. He knows why I'm embedding it here : )
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 03, 2012
mostly bad news
“Empty bullet casings found in Port Said Stadium” “Police reportedly shoot out activist’s right eye in Mansour Street clashes” [their favorite thing since November] In other news, an army vehicle accidentally ran over a 1st Lieutenant in the army and killed him. And two American women were kidnapped in the Sinai, but later freed. As [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 03, 2012
what I just heard from Cairo
8 dead in Tahrir today. Lots of things being burned. Would be 2 AM in Cairo right now, but it seems to be still going.
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Ecology without Nature
February 03, 2012
Blogpost on Privatization
...by Laura Grindstaff.Laura GrindstaffProfessor of SociologyDirector, Consortium for Women and ResearchUniversity of California, Davis
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Ecology without Nature
February 03, 2012
Some Important Occupy Sites
UC Faculty Supporting StudentsOccupy Education
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Ecology without Nature
February 03, 2012
That Harvard Talk Again
Open to the public!
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Ecology without Nature
February 03, 2012
Harman's Rogue Planets Essay
Very nice--it reminds me of Sebald.
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Ecology without Nature
February 03, 2012
Theory, Culture and Society Essay
Finally I'm writing this:Inside the Hyperobject We Are Always in the WrongTimothy MortonIn this essay I shall be examining what I call hyperobjects, entities that are massively distributed in time and space. Many of them are human-made, such as Styrofoam, global warming and nuclear materials. I shall be adapting a suggestive concept of Kierkegaard's: the idea, which he finds “edifying,” that “agai [...]
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Ecology without Nature
February 03, 2012
Graham and Rob Surrounded By
I'd like to be there. Transmediale.
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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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Immanence
February 03, 2012
Last man
I’m catching up on the news that Theo Angelopoulos died last week. Hit by a motorcycle. Now that the “last of the European modernists” (as he’s often called) is dead, where does that leave us? Like kids searching for a father we never knew? (Watch it all here.) (In case you were wondering where Bela [...] No related posts.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 03, 2012
Rogue Planets essay now online
I’m not sure who posted this, but I was just told today that it’s online, HERE. I wrote it for Ralo Mayer’s art catalogue in Linz this summer. It’s actually not an essay, but more a Circus Philosophicus-style myth, which is what Mayer requested for his catalogue.
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Algorithm and Contingency
February 03, 2012
“Why would you want to end your career like this?”
That’s what someone said to me earlier today, when I talked about the importance of Greenberg. Not unexpected of course – but it makes no sense to be ignorant about him. When I asked for the reason behind this opinion, the smug self-satisfaction of ‘you don’t understand’ and ‘we’re past this’ comes to the fore; [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 03, 2012
the most controversial figure I mentioned last night
Not Heidegger, not even in a city where some historical ghosts are still hovering in the air. I speak, instead, of Clement Greenberg. I’m not sure if this was audible on the live stream, but when I mentioned in the lecture that we still have much to learn from Greenberg, someone in the first few [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Algorithm and Contingency
February 03, 2012
A good commentary video on the work at Transmediale
I’ll write a longer response to Harman’s keynote last night – but to give you flavour of the festival here’s a neat video of what’s going on this year. The first guy is Morten Riis from Aarhus, by the way. Fantastic project.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 02, 2012
Mahmoud Soliman
Apparently dead in the violence. [ADDENDUM: Ahmed Elewa writes and notes the chilling detail in the text beneath the photo: Smile Rose: why the back stripe on the picture? Mahmoud Soliman SoLy: So that if I die you wouldn't have to waste time make a picture like that ... it's ready for use. Almost as [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 02, 2012
snow in Berlin
There was significant snowfall in Berlin overnight, and it’s continuing. Big, fluffy flakes. It’s a nice experience for me, since I don’t even remember the last time I saw actual snowfall.
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 02, 2012
in the Ahly locker room
Some injured ultras escaped the thugs, barely, and reached safety in the Ahly locker room.
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Ecology without Nature
February 02, 2012
And for My Next Trick
Spring quarter, coming up:CRI200BSpeculative Realism and Object-Oriented OntologyPhilosophy has undergone a radical change. Reality is back on the table, in a different, strange and sometimes threatening (to humans) way. This change comes after two hundred years of consensus, a consensus that philosopher Quentin Meillassoux calls “correlationism”: the supposition that humans can only think reality [...]
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Knowledge Ecology
February 02, 2012
How Flowers Changed the World
From Loren Eiseley’s classic essay, HERE. “There is nothing very ‘normal’ about nature,” indeed! If it had been possible to observe the Earth from the far side of the solar system over the long course of geological epochs, the watchers might have been able to discern a subtle change in the light emanating from our planet. [...]
from knowledge-ecology.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 02, 2012
wounds presumably from either the machetes or the swords
Don’t even ask how 13,000 “fans” with swords, machetes, and guns could get into a stadium for a match between two of the most heated rivals in the league. Or why the Governor and Security Chief of the city both happened to be absent, which is apparently well outside the norm. The Khaled Said Facebook [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 02, 2012
in Port Said
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 02, 2012
an eyewitness account
“What Truly Happened in Port Said’s Stadium: The Massacre of Al-Ahli’s Ultras (February 1st 2012) by Fouad Halbouni on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 6:44am Written by: Ahmad Raslan What you are about to read is the testimony of a reliable informant concerning the massacre which took place after the match between Al-Ahli and Al-Masry [...]
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Ian Bogost
February 02, 2012
Academic Professional Job Opening
Work with me at Georgia Tech Digital Media — We have a job opening for a staff position in my program at Georgia Tech. The job is for an Academic Professional, who will serve as assistant to the Graduate Program in Digital Media. You get to work with me and nine other core faculty in the program, as well as with others in the School and College, to help manage and advance our three programs [...]
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Algorithm and Contingency
February 02, 2012
Transmediale stuff
Ok – it’s time that I updated everyone on the last two days. So transmediale is going well. There’s a nice vibe going on, as I expected everyone is in good sprits and enjoying the festival events. There are A LOT of people here, pretty much 1000 maybe even 2000+ are expected over the course [...]
from robertjackson.info
Algorithm and Contingency
February 01, 2012
In/compatible Streaming
HERE. Although it appears to work fine. (need high bandwidth). Madga, Andy and myself will be jointly closing the day at about 15.13 Europe time.
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Knowledge Ecology
January 31, 2012
David Graeber Audio — Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Last night I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by David Graeber at CIIS in San Francisco. Graeber, an american anthropologist teaching at Goldsmith’s University in London, has recently gained notoriety for being one of the initial organizers for Zuccoti park’s general assembly. He has been called “the anti-leader of Occupy Wall Street” by [...]
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Algorithm and Contingency
January 31, 2012
Fire in the lobby
Not sure if I’m staying in the same Hotel Graham’s staying in – (well it’s the same chain for sure) – but yes the fire is nice in the lobby and very welcome in my room. Especially as it’s minus 7 outside.
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Archive Fire
January 31, 2012
Bruno Latour: May Nature Be Recomposed?
  The Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture 2010Location: Nobel Museum, Svenska Akademiens Börssal, May 11, 2010. The Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture is given every spring at the Nobel Museum by an international scholar of excellence. [ h/t Adam Robberts ] 
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Ian Bogost
January 31, 2012
Slashdot Q&A
— Just a short pointer post for those who get my updates via blog or RSS. Last month Slashdot covered the Wired article about me and Cow Clicker, and invited readers to pose questions. The editors selected some, which I answered, and which Slashdot has now published. The questions were good, and I'm pretty pleased with my answers too, so I hope you'll check them out.... (read more)
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Archive Fire
January 30, 2012
Bruno Latour: Waiting For Gaia
Adam Robbert reminded me today of Bruno Latour's recent talk titled, 'Waiting For Gaia: Composing the common world through arts and politics'. The video introduction is embedded below, and the transcript of the entire talk can be found here (PDF). Latour's work is fast becoming essential for understanding the world we now inhabit.SOURCE: HERE
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Ian Bogost
January 30, 2012
The Bulldog and the Pegasus
— Originally published as an opinion piece at Gamasutra In Greek mythology, Bellerophon is the hero who tamed the Pegasus. He used the winged horse as a mount to defeat the Chimaera, a monster with the heads of a lion, goat, and snake that breathed fire and devoured villagers. Bellerophon's many heroic deeds were widely praised, and his subjects adored him. But in his arrogance Bellerophon a [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
January 30, 2012
Waiting for Gaia. Composing the Common World Through Arts and Politics PDF
The PDF of Bruno Latour’s Waiting for Gaia paper is available HERE. Below is one of the paper’s extraordinary excerpts: One of the reasons why we feel so powerless when asked to be concerned by ecological crisis, the reason why I, to begin with, feel so powerless, is because of the total disconnect between the [...]
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Algorithm and Contingency
January 30, 2012
Off to transmediale..
… so to those who are going, catch you there tomorrow. I’m flying from London tomorrow morning.
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Digital Digs
January 30, 2012
digital humanities and digital literacy #dhdebates
In her latest HASTAC post, Cathy Davidson considers "How Digital Humanists Can Lead Us to National Digital LIteracy," and she frames digital literacy in terms of one's ability to answer the following question (as she says, "an entrance exam question...
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Algorithm and Contingency
January 29, 2012
The ‘World of the News’.
It’s peer reviewed leftist newspaper time again, courtesy of DARC at Aarhus. HERE’s the blurb and PDF. I can’t convey how staggeringly brilliant this project is – we talk about the capabilities of blogging in academia and instant access, but this conveys instant information in different, perhaps more immediate way through the ground roots of [...]
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ANTHEM
January 28, 2012
T for Thing
Under the letter “T” in David Evans’s Critical Dictionary, “Thing” is represented by Tammy Lu and Katherine Gillieson’s cover design for Levi Bryant’s The Democracy of Objects book, accompanied by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour’s prospectus for the New Metaphysics series at Open Humanities Press. Hat tip to Tammy Lu. Abandoning the conventional forma [...]
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Archive Fire
January 28, 2012
Jon Lindblom on DeLanda
I just want to make sure everyone interested was in the know about Jon’s latest post over at Intensive Thinking which includes a transcript of a brief presentation he did about the neo-materialist philosophy of Manuel DeLanda. I couldn’t find a damn thing I disagreed with in his presentation (and I tried).Below are some highlights, but for Shiva’s sake go read it for yourself: “[H]ow should w [...]
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Algorithm and Contingency
January 28, 2012
Aesthetics in the 21st Century updated
HERE. Plus Bios and Abstracts. But what I didn’t realise is that there would be a Speculations and continent. editors: The Aesthetics of Academic Practice session. Echoing Michael Austin’s recent post, I can’t wait to meet both him and Thomas Gokey for the first time ( I met Paul last year at Nottingham). Four Fifth’s of the Speculation team together [...]
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Ian Bogost
January 28, 2012
Speculative Realism Aggregator Update
New blogs, optimized, mobile version, etc. — As promised, I've cleaned up and updated the Speculative Realism blog aggregator. Thanks to those of you who made suggestions in the comments or by contacting me directly. A few quick notes: I've added a link to the aggregator in the right sidebar, under "resources." Not sure why I never had one. There is also a mobile device-optimized version of [...]
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Complete Lies
January 27, 2012
Aesthetics in the 21st Century abstract
The Aesthetics in the 21st Century page has been updated to include the program as well as abstracts, so I thought I would post my own, to be presented as the final paper of the conference: “The Feeling of Things: … Continue reading →
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ANTHEM
January 27, 2012
Hatch by Tammy Lu and Crystal Bueckert
If you happen to be in the resurgent boomtown of Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada between March 30 and June 10 this year, and have an interest in the intersection of art and urbanism, check out Hatch, Tammy Lu and Crystal Bueckert’s show at the Mendel Art Gallery: Artists by Artists: Tammy Lu and Crystal Bueckert Hatch [...]
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Archive Fire
January 27, 2012
Slavoj Žižek: Catastrophic But Not Serious
...Slavoj Zizek: Catastrophic But Not Serious from The Graduate Center, CUNY on FORA.tvLocation: New York, NY / Event Date: 04.04.11 Summary: The Committee on Globalization and Social Change will launch with a special lecture by philosopher and critic Slavoj Zizek who will speak on "The Situation Is Catastrophic, but Not Serious." This alleged message of the Austrian military headquarters dur [...]
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Larval Subjects
January 26, 2012
A Brief Remark on Four-Dimensionalism
For some time I’ve argued that objects or substances (individuals) are “spacetime worms”. What does this meaning? It means that substances are four-dimensional. As Theodore Sider articulates it, “…four-dimensionalism [is] an ontology of the material world according to which objects have temporal as well as spatial parts” (Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Pers [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
January 26, 2012
Whitehead and Ecology Excerpt 4: Whitehead’s Cosmology
Following my series of excerpts from the larger work I am putting to together, I am posting a section on Whitehead’s cosmology since numerous questions about Whitehead continue to pop up in conversation. The following shouldn’t be construed as a complete account of Whitehead’s cosmology but rather connects Whitehead to ecology specifically. This post follows [...]
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Immanence
January 26, 2012
In a nutshell
Shinzen Young lays it all out: He has also started blogging (to add to his other  online  presences). As I’ve mentioned in this space a few times before, I’ve learned a lot from him, especially about the relationship between a process-relational metaphysics (which is how I would describe Shinzen’s Buddhism) and the intimate bits of [...] Related posts:sinkhole to hell? spinning [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
January 26, 2012
Object-Oriented Linguistics
A great post on the thingliness of words, phonemes, morphemes, and sentences by Sam Mickey HERE. A brief excerpt from the introduction: Words have conventional meanings, but do they also have their own meanings, apart from the meanings that humans assign to them?  For an object-oriented linguistics, a word is its own thing, distinct from any [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
January 25, 2012
Precarious Causation!
Its the clever term Michael proposes in his latest volley in our ongoing discussion about withdrawal and object-oriented philosophy. If any of you are still interested in this now weeks-long debate head over HERE to read Michael’s new post. I’m reposting my response to him below: Another great post — I become a little more [...]
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