speculative realism
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 09, 2010
Meillassoux interview, English
Someone named Steve Harris just posted AN ENGLISH VERSION OF MEILLASSOUX’S RECENT INTERVIEW.
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Critical Animal
February 09, 2010
Gender liberation, feminism, and the trans movement
I want to link you all to this excellent article about feminism and transphobia by Red Jenny (h/t i.t.). I highly suggest this, so click the damn link! I'll know if you don't (actually I won't, I've never bothered to add any sort of stats monitor on this blog).Anyway, the article really reminded me of when I was an undergraduate, and I was minoring in Women and Gender Studies. There was a professo [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Ian Bogost
February 09, 2010
Information is Beautiful
...but it's not necessarily informative — My next book, Newsgames: Journalism at Play (co-authored with my graduate students Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer), is being prepared for publication, and it should hit the streets in late summer of this year. In anticipation, I'll try to offer some occasional previews of the content we cover in the book. One of the chapters in Newsgames covers in [...]
from www.bogost.com
Hyper tiling
February 09, 2010
To be an Heideggerian takes you on the big screen
I love the idea behind this movie, and I am quite sure Dreyfus is largely responsible for it (apparently the director graduated from Berkeley and surely was attending his classes). Speaking of which, look how cool good old Bert looks with his antique car… Heidegger himself does not get mentioned in this trailer (nor in the [...]
from hypertiling.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 08, 2010
too much fun to leave
It seems that Lingis is having too much fun to leave, and has extended his stay in Cairo all the way until his lecture in Vilnius late in February. Initially he was fairly hotel-bound, working on a book project as well as the lecture, and recovering from some sort of ailment picked up in Ethiopia. But [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Larval Subjects
February 08, 2010
Depression, Affectivity, and Capitalism
One of the more compelling themes that punctuates Fisher’s Capitalist Realism is the linkage between the rise of certain mental illnesses and post-Fordist capitalist modes of production, identifying it as a key site of the political (at least virtually). Now, for readers familiar with French inflected social theory, this thesis will not, in and [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Immanence
February 08, 2010
knowledge wants to be free (doesn't it?)
Publishers are starting to catch up to AAAARG.org, the rapidly growing file-sharing megalibrary for cultural theory and philosophy books, which currently makes available PDF files of hundreds of books that I would love to have but couldn't realistically afford to buy. (See Columbia University Press's cease and desist letter here.) At least I couldn't afford all of them. On my professor's salary I [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
Speculative Heresy
February 08, 2010
Symposium on the Non-Philosophy of Laruelle
A whole mess of events and CFPs to announce: Warwick Symposium on the Non-Philosophy of Francois Laruelle The Warwick University Philosophy Society, in association with Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, is pleased to announce a short symposium on the non-philosophy of Francois Laruelle on Wednesday the 3rd of March. This will take place in H0.52, in [...]
from speculativeheresy.wordpress.com
Critical Animal
February 08, 2010
Why I'm angry at Howard Dean
This post is going to make most of the political liberals and progressives who read this blog pissed at me. But, I'm in an angry mood tonight, so here we go. Oh yeah, those of you who wonder why I am interested in US policy mechanisms and question my radicalism will probably also be annoyed I continue to post stuff like this.The health care bill that I have touted on this blog (see here and here) [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Larval Subjects
February 08, 2010
Paradoxes of Mereology and Social Systems
Towards the end of Capitalist Realism Fisher puts his finger on the central reason for my reluctance to discuss issues of normativity. In the chapter entitled “There’s no central exchange” Fisher compares contemporary capitalism to the bureaucratic universe depicted so well by Kafka. The supreme genius of Kafka was to have explored the negative atheology [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Another Heidegger Blog
February 08, 2010
Lots of Speculative Events
Some great stuff seems to be going on at Warwick (oh how I envy the Warwick people - all the best events seem to happen there and it is also the home of Pli). The Laruelle workshop will have no less than three bloggers involved (Reid, Anthony Paul Smith and Nick S.) which must be a kind of first. Also hinted at is a workshop on Brassier and transcendental realism which will surely be something to [...]
from anotherheideggerblog.blogspot.com
Deontologistics
February 08, 2010
Laruelle (non-)Event
This is being advertised a bit later than intended, but the philosophy society at Warwick (a top notch student run organisation) has organised a visit by Francois Laruelle, who will be presenting a paper (in French, accompanied by a written English translation courtesy of Anthony Paul Smith of An Und Fur Sich) on his more [...]
from deontologistics.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 07, 2010
Dummett and Realism (cross-posted from course site)
tomorrow (Monday), we turn (again or finally) to Dummett on realism and anti-realism. I welcome any comments you have on this: I am teaching Dummett but that doesn’t make me expert in all the debates he is reviewing. That said, I take his work here to be paradigmatic of a certain approach in Anglo-American philosophy [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 07, 2010
a sample
Here’s possibly the most ridiculous sample from Fish’s July editorial: “By definition, a culture other than yours is one that displays unfamiliar practices, enforces local protocols and insists on its own decorums. Some of them even have different languages and are unhappy if you don’t speak them. To me that all spells discomfort, and I don’t [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 07, 2010
Fish on travel
Somehow I had missed Stanley Fish’s LUDICROUSLY BLAND AND CRANKY N.Y. TIMES ARTICLE ON TRAVEL last July in July 2008. But the funny part is that Alphonso Lingis both read this article and commented on it. If I were trying to write an article to push Lingis’s anger buttons, I couldn’t do better than this effort [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Critical Animal
February 07, 2010
I need to track down a claude levi-strauss citation in a german book, someone help me out
So, the book is: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Mythos und Bedeutung. Fünf Radiovorträge. Gespräche mit Claude Lévi-Strauss, ed. by Adalbert Reif (Frankfurt, 1980).It's a book based on a series of lectures published in English as Myth and Meaning, but in the english version the book is 80 some odd pages, whereas in the German version it is 200 some odd pages. What I am interested in is roughly pages 247-250 [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Another Heidegger Blog
February 07, 2010
Hegel as anti-correlationist
[I'm really enjoying the debate over at Cogburn's blog and I want to keep this posts here to since they have been so helpful in bringing these issues out personally].Meillassoux intimates to the singular complexity involved in making Hegel a correlationist at times. Now clearly Hegel can be seen as a thinker who stresses the correlation between thought and being. However this is only one aspect of [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
February 07, 2010
Hegel was no pantheist
Just a quick note via a comment in reply to Jon Cogburn's blog. I think the fundamental misunderstanding regarding Hegel is that he is an idealist. The reason why the mind ‘syncs’ up with substance (his word for the real, ‘great outdoors’, the object and so on) is that they both arise from the same self-organizing activity. So in a way there in no split between us and things because we are, in thi [...]
from anotherheideggerblog.blogspot.com
Hyper tiling
February 07, 2010
Translation of (part of) Meillassoux’s ‘Contingence et Absolutisation de l’Un’
Some time ago I found a paper by Meillassoux on Speculative Heresy’s resources page, titled ‘Contingence et Absolutisation de l’Un‘ which he (probably) delivered at a symposium on “Métaphysique, ontologie, hénologie”, in Paris. At first sight it looked like just another presentation of his main themes as we find them in After Finitude and in the [...]
from hypertiling.wordpress.com
Objects & Things
February 06, 2010
Bill Brown’s Thing Theory
One of the exciting aspects of the discourses of objects and things is their diversity. Disciplines seems to be reaching out to one another in new ways, learning from each other, through texts that might otherwise go overlooked, due to differences of method or field. The obvious example is Harman’s engagement with Latour. As another [...]
from objectsandthings.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 06, 2010
speculative realist archaeology
And I mean archaeology literally, not in the Foucauldian manner. Archaeologist Chris Witmore TAKES THE SPECULATIVE TURN.
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Ian Bogost
February 06, 2010
The Art History of Games
Day 2 and Exhibition Opening — We're already into the third and final day of the Art History of Games symposium, and as an organizer I haven't even tried to blog the talks. You're best bet is to check out coverage online (Gamasutra covered part, but not all, of yesterday's sessions), or to review the Twitter stream on hashtag #AHoG. Last night's exhibition opening was great; reminder to thos [...]
from www.bogost.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 06, 2010
new blog
There are at least two obviously special features about TAMMY LYNN: 1. She is perhaps the only native Belgian with the first name “Tammy Lynn” (if there are others, I would be shocked). 2. She is the first and probably last woman I ever met who collects WWI paraphernalia. Her graduate work in philosophy has been on Heidegger. [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 06, 2010
an Andaman language dies
An 85-year old woman, the last speaker of the Bo language, DIES IN THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. I spent some time in the Andamans two years ago, and am quite fond of the place. The islands are part of India, but lie extremely far off the east coast of India, south of Myanmar in fact. Unfortunately, the great [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 06, 2010
the other thought
The other thought about 10 years ago today is: “Man, I was so young.” I didn’t feel that way, of course. Who feels young as a 31-year-old Ph.D. without a job for next year (as had been the case the day before)? But now I can see that I was really a green kid at [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 06, 2010
10 years ago
February 6, 2000 was the day I received a job offer from the American University in Cairo. It would certainly rank somewhere among my five most exciting days ever, even though it didn’t come as a total shock (a few preceding communications had made it fairly clear that the offer would be forthcoming). It just goes [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
February 06, 2010
Meillassoux interview
Here is A BRIEF FRENCH INTERVIEW WITH MEILLASSOUX, posted yesterday, on the subject of metaphysics.
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 05, 2010
They Make Comments…
Larval responds to this quick post earlier today with this: I’ve heard people here and there suggest that SR is trying to bridge the analytic-continental divide. In my own work, this is something that never occurs to me; not because I have a hostility to analytic thought, but simply because I just don’t have much of [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 05, 2010
Ask Larval…
And you receive: he’s got a great post up on defining idealism and realism, in part in relation to Anglo American philosophy. I’ll likely assign this to my realism class.
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Larval Subjects
February 05, 2010
What is Radical Theory?
As I read Fisher’s (aka of K-Punk fame ) brilliant Capitalist Realism, I find myself wondering just what constitutes radical theory. And the conclusion that I come to is that radical theory is not so much a body of political propositions as it is a repudiation of actualism of that being and the actual [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Larval Subjects
February 05, 2010
Realism, Idealism, Correlationism– A Proposal for a New Lexicon
My mind is more or less fried this evening from editing articles for The Speculative Turn, but I wanted to draw attention to this post by Jon Cogburn on Brandom, Hegel, and idealism. Because my background in Anglo-American thought is pretty rusty these days, I’ve had to reread Cogburn’s post a few times now [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 05, 2010
And then I stopped reading…
Apparently, Rancière in his Emancipated Spectator–right over there on my bookshelf, longing to be read beyond the first dozen pages–critiques the artistic theory of Nicolas Bourriaud, who responds. I got as far the first paragraph of Bourriard’s response: In a recent book, Jacques Rancière questioned ‘the pedagogical model for the effectiveness of art’, seeing in today’s [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 05, 2010
Continental, Analytic Realism
Regarding the below on Larval Subjects’ work and Anglo American philosophy, I think the major move in Continentally-inflected (Continentally?) made is to claim a more “democratic” ontology. But it’s not like Quinean naturalists are stuck talking only about trees as objects and so on. I see the need, for example, to react against what Lee Braver [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 05, 2010
My favorite Senator, Richard Shelby (R-Insanity)
Politically, it’s really helpful to have your Ayn Rands and Dick Shelby’s. You need someone so willing to wear the rotted clothing of the contemporary ideology in such a way that you think they must be a plant of the opposition. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Dick Shelby. Sure, you’ve hated him for his [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 05, 2010
More Larval
So, having posted on Quine this morning, I’m left to ask Larval about “causation” and “translation.” It seems to me, of course, that Quine and others have done a lot of work on this. (Quine even calls the human being a “black box” of input-output translation.) How long before you’re doing work on the naturalness [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 05, 2010
Inside the Mind of a Rat-Bot
I missed Larval Subject’s post on a Rat-brained robot. Apparently, rat neurons have been spliced into a form of circuitry that controls a small robot, leading LS to stipulate: “n a nutshell, researchers have spliced neurons from a rat brain to a computer-chip. The computer then transmits signals to the robot controlling its movement. As [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 05, 2010
Quine…
I was in a bookshop yesterday and saw two lovely volumes of Quine (there’s a phrase you don’t read often), co-edited by his son, which make a series of a number of his writings from Harvard University Press. After fishing around in some god-awful 70s and 80s-era Anglo American philosophy prose (note that I’m tending [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Immanence
February 05, 2010
Bergson & the universal image machine
There's something about our time that is very Bergsonian, in the sense that there's a kind of simultaneous opening up of the past and the future, the former feeding the possibilities of the latter. At the same time as new technological tools propel us ever forward on trajectories of embodied interactivity (the internet, iPod-iPhone-iPad, YouTube, Facebook-Twitter, etc.), recording technologies (th [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
Critical Animal
February 05, 2010
The perils and pitfalls of transnational adoption: Haiti edition
Three links, the first two from by brother, and the last one from Vegans of Color. The first one is an article about 'orphans' for sale for as little as 50 dollars in Haiti. The second one is an article about a group of Christian missionaries who abducted 33 children off the streets of Haiti, and were in the process of leaving the country with them. The last one is a statement released by Adoptees [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Critical Animal
February 05, 2010
It's like Matt Yglesias has never read Carl Schmitt
But if Scooter Libby obstructs justice, the president has an un-reviewable, un-checkable power to offer him a pardon or clemency. If Bill Clinton wants to bomb Serbia, then Serbia gets bombed. If George W Bush wants to hold people in secret prisons and torture them, then tortured they shall be. And if Barack Obama wants to issue a kill order on someone or other, then the order goes out. And if Con [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
February 04, 2010
DePaul Dining
Harman mentions Bill Martin and PS Banghok: One thing I share most intensely with Bill is a love for PS Bangkok, a Thai restaurant on Halsted in Chicago, just north of Fullerton, where many DePaul Philosophy dinners took place (and maybe still do, for all I know). I could eat there every night if I [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Ian Bogost
February 04, 2010
The Art History of Games
Day One — This evening we began the Art History of Games symposium here in Atlanta, organized by Savannah College of Art and Design - Atlanta and Georgia Tech. After introductions, myself and my co-organizers John Sharp and Michael Nitsche presented a discussion of the concept of an art history of games. Then John Romero presented his keynote "Masters among Us," about learning from designers [...]
from www.bogost.com
Critical Animal
February 04, 2010
Hardt and Negri and love in Commonwealth
Jodi Dean has an interesting post up on Hardt and Negri's Commonwealth, which most of you know I read and reviewed for Radical Philosophy Review (thanks again, Peter). In her post, Dean makes some arguments/gut reactions about using love, joy, etc as political theoretical categories. I don't necessary share those, but it provides a decent place for me to begin some public thoughts on their categor [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Deontologistics
February 04, 2010
Heidegger, Realism, and all that jazz…
Paul Ennis (here), Jon Cogburn (here) and Gary Williams (here), have been having a conversation about whether Heidegger is a realist or not on their respective blogs. Since I’ve been trying to come up with a coherent interpretation of Heidegger for the past 2 years, causing much woe and confusion, I thought I’d chip in. [...]
from deontologistics.wordpress.com
Another Heidegger Blog
February 04, 2010
Heidegger and the realism/antirealism debate
Some great posts on Heidegger and realism/antirealism. I've copied a comment I made here too since it is a little bit long. This very topic came up in nothing less than a Hegel reading group we have going in my own department. I am talking, of course, about the realism and antirealism debate. The reason Jon has not seen much of it in the literature is that it really isn’t there all that much. Gary [...]
from anotherheideggerblog.blogspot.com
Ian Bogost
February 03, 2010
Objects & Things
DiSalvo joins the party — My colleague Carl DiSalvo, who will participate in this April's OOO Symposium, has started up a blog: Objects & Things. The site will offer another perspective on objects, that of design. I've added it to the SR Aggregator.... (read more)
from www.bogost.com
Larval Subjects
February 03, 2010
Some Questions– Monkey Wrenches
I’ll make these questions brief as I haven’t eaten yet today, am coming down with a cold, and am generally worn out. The model of objects I’ve been working with recently has basically focused on very simple physical objects where the attractors inhabiting the virtual dimension of the object are relatively fixed. Here [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 03, 2010
Rat-Brained Robot
I came across this terrifying robot on a documentary a while back. In a nutshell, researchers have spliced neurons from a rat brain to a computer-chip. The computer then transmits signals to the robot controlling its movement. As the neurons “experiment” with the movements of the robot, the neural network actually evolves [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Larval Subjects
February 03, 2010
Questions of Relation and Individuation (Thinking Out Loud Again)
Just a quick post working through ideas here, so take this with a grain of salt. I confess that I’m uncomfortable with the thesis that every relation generates a new object. It is not enough to simply ask what an object is, but we need an account of when an object is. [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 03, 2010
Attractors, Phase Spaces, and States
For some time now I have evoked the concept of attractors and points in phase space to describe the structure of objects. Since these are somewhat foreign concepts in philosophy and I am using them, I suspect, in idiosyncratic ways, it would be worthwhile to clarify just what I have in mind and, more [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 02, 2010
Causality and Cognition
This post by Graham made me do a Scooby-Doo double take, letting out a deep confused, yet high pitched, “huhr?”, wondering why he is attributing these claims to me: I’ve encountered this claim from others before, and often even Levi tends in the same direction (despite the fact that Shaviro presents my position and Levi’s as [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Another Heidegger Blog
February 02, 2010
Hegel knew a thing or two
In section’s §11-14 of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit I cannot help but notice certain similarities to our own age. Since the sections are quite long together I’ve linked to a copy. Hegel argues that in times when the philosophical (or what he would call scientific) configurations are in flux there is a qualitative leap that is difficult to articulate. The slow accretion that precedes such a time [...]
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Larval Subjects
February 01, 2010
Withdrawn Objects, Information, and Reflexivity
Recently Mel’s got me reading Katherine Hayles’ How We Became Posthuman, which is rewarding for a variety of reasons (Yes, yes, I know, I should have read this long ago, but damn it Jim, I mean Mel, I’m a philosopher not a cultural theorist!). First, at one of her recent talks she spoke favorably [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Another Heidegger Blog
February 01, 2010
Speculative Realism overview
I just came across an excellent overview of Speculative Realism by speculum criticum traditionis. Do check it out.
from anotherheideggerblog.blogspot.com
Critical Animal
February 01, 2010
Reasons for vegetarianism/veganism besides...
... economic boycott? Or, I guess I should rephrase that: What are some reasons for vegetarianism/veganism besides economic boycott? I think a lot of people spend time explaining why we shouldn't (or should!) kill animals and/or treat them as property. But where are explanations on the justification for vegetarianism/veganism as a necessary component of opposition, besides arguments about economic [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Speculative Heresy
February 01, 2010
Speculative Realism Round-Up
Plenty of action occurring in the SR world of late: The new Collapse volume on Geo/philosophy is now physically available for purchase. The Object Oriented Ontology Symposium has been set up by Ian Bogost on a wonderfully designed site. Graham Harman has a new interview online, along with a short introductory piece by myself, and a piece on [...]
from speculativeheresy.wordpress.com
Objects & Things
January 31, 2010
Ortega’s Cosmic Thing
Damián Ortega Cosmic Thing, 2002 Volkswagen Beetle 1983, stainless steel wire, acrylic Damián Ortega’s piece Cosmic Thing is particularly interesting object: it is work of art made from a canonical design artifact. Of course, there are innumerable such works of art. Beginning with Dada and continuing through the 20th Century design objects have repeatedly, and relentlessly, been transformed [...]
from objectsandthings.wordpress.com
Objects & Things
January 31, 2010
And so it begins…
Objects and things have fascinated me for quite some time now. Given my background in design and design studies, this is perhaps not surprising: objects and things are central to both the practice and scholarship of design. In contemporary design practice and design studies however, objects and things are often eclipsed by discussions of “users.” Again, [...]
from objectsandthings.wordpress.com
Critical Animal
January 31, 2010
Oscar Wilde on vegetarianism
"However, even vegetarianism in your hands, would make a capital article -- its connection with philosophy is very curious-- dating from the earliest Greek days, and taken by the Greeks from the East -- and so is its connection with modern socialism, atheism, nihilism, anarchy and other political creeds. It is strange that the most violent republicans I know are all vegetarians: Brussels sprouts s [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Immanence
January 31, 2010
Bryant's objects & a possible object/subjectology
Reading Levi Bryant's blog sometimes feels like having a brilliant storm of white-hot thought rain down upon one's backyard garden, the shoots struggling to stay vertical, but rendered that much stronger after the rain. There are wonderful passages in his recent musings on ethics, relations, objects, and ontology. From Ethical Etymologies: Thinking Out Loud (Always Dangerous), for instance: "Where [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
Another Heidegger Blog
January 31, 2010
Meillassoux reading group query
Tomorrow I am chairing a short meeting of the UCD-Trinity inter-departmental reading group. I'll be working off the short paper 'Time without becoming' since it manages to condense the major ideas of After Finitude quite well. I'll have a quick re-read later and post the notes. Is there anything readers think ought to be covered? The group will consist of analytic and continental types. At the ver [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
January 31, 2010
Post Continental Voices
Just having a look over the second proofs of PCV at the moment. Should be all done by tomorrow and sent off. I have removed the links to the interviews for the moment. At some stage I'll be deleting the interviews. This being the internet one can always recover them but I think the longer and much improved interviews in the books should replace the blog interviews at some point.
from anotherheideggerblog.blogspot.com
Ian Bogost
January 30, 2010
Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium
April 23, 2010 at Georgia Tech — I'm happy to announce that we'll be hosting the first Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium at Georgia Tech, on Friday April 23, 2010. Speakers include myself, Levi Bryant, Graham Harman, and Steven Shaviro, with respondents from the local Atlanta area: my Georgia Tech colleagues Hugh Crawford, Carl DiSalvo, and Eugene Thacker, and John Johnston from Emory. I'm [...]
from www.bogost.com
We Have Never Been Blogging
January 30, 2010
Update 2
Allright, everyone--here's a quick update. Evan's finished traveling, Mike's finished doing some stuff that needed to be done, and Paul is at the ready. We'll be a little slower, probably, than last year though: everyone's got a lot of work to do, and we'll be fitting in the reading more and more in our spare time. Thanks to everyone who has commented on the blog though so far, or even seen this a [...]
from wehaveneverbeenblogging.blogspot.com
Immanence
January 30, 2010
visualizing immanence
This beautifully photographed new BBC documentary, The Secret Life of Chaos, evocatively illustrates one way of thinking about immanence, i.e., the spontaneous emergence of beauty and complexity from natural process. Morphogenesis, self-organization, the collapse of Newtonian physics (into chaos/complexity theory, etc.), the "butterfly effect," fractal geometry, delicious little biographical detai [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
Another Heidegger Blog
January 30, 2010
The Absent Danger
In response to Peter's questions in this post I posted the following comment which I just wanted to reproduce in case it had intrigued anyone else:At least one problem with the paper is that it is disjointed - but it is a chopped up paper edited down to fit the timeslot and one part I did cut out was my broader explanation for why the ancestral could be considered an 'absent' danger - i.e. not a d [...]
from anotherheideggerblog.blogspot.com
Ian Bogost
January 29, 2010
The Sanitary Handheld
Public Rhetoric and the iPad — I swore I wasn't going to write anything about Apple's newly announced iPad, but I suppose it's unavoidable. Instead of its benefits or flaws, however, what's interested me the most about the gadget is the public reaction to its name. It seems that back in 2007, MadTV wrote a spoof of Apple's raging devicitude, in the form of a parodic advertisement for a produ [...]
from www.bogost.com
Critical Animal
January 29, 2010
A complication to flat ethics and relational ethics
I am absurdly busy this week, so of course one of the more interesting cross-blog conversations has broken out. Let's see if I can trace this for everyone. Paul made the original post, following up on a discussion we were having about anti-correlationist thinking and the animal. Levi followed up by combining some of his earlier analysis on inhuman ethics with Paul's post. That then generated an ex [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Planomenology
January 29, 2010
Class, struggle
Class struggle is not, first and foremost, the struggle between classes, social classes, already constituted as such. Struggle is the ground of such social classes, be they working and owning classes or any other. It is this struggle which, situated within the organization of human activity as a whole (and the problematicity of this formulation does [...]
from planomenology.wordpress.com
Immanence
January 29, 2010
the politics of objects & relations
The objects versus relations debate has revved up again over at Larval Subjects, in the commentary responding to Levi Bryant’s Questions about the possibility of non-correlationist ethics. The debate, as I would describe it, circles around the following question: If we agree that traditional philosophy has been too centrally premised on the relationship between humans and the world at the expense [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
Another Heidegger Blog
January 29, 2010
Quick reply to Levi on non-correlationist ethics
Levi has an interesting post up on non-correlationist ethics that I wanted to address since this keeps cropping in real-life discussions of SR I have had with people. ''Here the issue isn’t one of excluding the human, but of asking how the domain of value might be extended beyond the human, without humans being at the center, or all questions of value pertaining to nonhumans being questions about [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
January 29, 2010
Phenomenology and the Ancestral Paper PDF
OK as promised here is a PDF of the paper delivered on Monday 25th. Link.As usual I am more than happy hear what people think about this paper. You can reach me at: ennis.paul@gmail.comOf course there are clearly problems with this paper especially to what extent do I achieve my goal (I don’t and I promise too much at the beginning) and in particular the section on rationalism/Descartes needs to b [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
January 29, 2010
Dundee Abstract Mark II
OK so here is is the new abstract which the organizers were kind enough to allow:Phenomenology and the AncestralIn this paper I will attempt to address the implications forphenomenology raised by Quentin Meillassoux’s argument fromancestrality as outlined in Après la finitude (2006). The argumentfrom ancestrality raises the aporia of the arche-fossil, a fossil thatindicates to a time anterior to g [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
January 28, 2010
Responses Owed
I owe a lot of people responses (e-mail, blog posts or otherwise) and I'm just posting here that I'll get back asap as I try to organize things a little better. I suppose it is good to have a busy email inbox but I spent the day at a family event and fell behind a little. In our super-fast-based Gestell existence what a difference a day can make!Oh and although I won't get to it tomorrow response [...]
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Immanence
January 28, 2010
"clean" coal
Today is National Coal Ash Action Day, as MountainJustice.org reminds us -- see the information there on what you can do about it. Meanwhile, Climate Ground Zero reports on a fascinating case unfolding in West Virginia's coal country, where tree sitters have halted blasting of a mountaintop by Massey Coal company. Climate justice folks have taken the old growth forest protection movement's most [...]
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Complete Lies
January 27, 2010
Sectarian Realism
This is in response to the news regarding Speculations and is taken from an email I sent to Paul last night when asked about my thoughts going forward with the journal. I’m not sure what I think the plan should be going forward. I think an SR journal would be appreciated and useful. One thing that [...]
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Critical Animal
January 27, 2010
Metro riding dogs
This article about stray/wild dogs in Moscow is a must read. The parts about how some dogs have learned to use the metro is certainly fascinating, as well.
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Hyper tiling
January 27, 2010
Philosophy and Orientalism
In the comments section of a previous post of mine, Amarilla wrote: About your statement: I have never been (and never harboured sympathy for) someone inclined to hippie-like celebrations of ‘eastern wisdom’ (the most repellent form of orientalism) I’ve run into this anti-orientalism before recently and while I suppose it reacts to a certain superficiality about “eastern [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
January 27, 2010
Animals
So I promised scu I would address the theme of animals that turned up in the paper on Monday (I'm just waiting to confirm whether I can post it - it is derived from a paper I am submitting so I just need to make sure). There is not much to it but animals did seem to crop up more than a few times.One argument was that anti-correlationism has a deflationary effect on the special status usually assig [...]
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Critical Animal
January 27, 2010
The biggest disappointment of the day?
Which will it be: Apple's iTablet, or Obama's SOTU address?
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Another Heidegger Blog
January 27, 2010
Paper by Stephen Cadwell
I'll get to posting my own paper later but here is a paper from fellow UCD PhD student Stephen Cadwell on aesthetics: link.As you can see our philosophy society is very austere and insists on the highest standards when advertising talks. The paper was a definite success and I even managed to pose a question which is something I almost never do.
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Another Heidegger Blog
January 26, 2010
Development
This will be my final post on object oriented philosophy. From now on this blog will deal only with my own work. Speculations will also take a new direction. I will be informing contributors about what this entails. If you need more information email me directly as I do not wish to cause any commotion in the blogosphere.
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Another Heidegger Blog
January 26, 2010
Speculative Realism out in the world
I delivered my first explicitly speculative realist/object oriented paper on Monday and it was an interesting experience. It was nice, for once, to be taking about a subject that appealed across lines. Of course it is always difficult to know what people really think about your paper but I think it went well albeit I found that I had overlooked certain themes. For one the ancestral realm and the a [...]
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Critical Animal
January 26, 2010
A question regarding DeLanda
I know some of the people who follow this blog know DeLanda personally. If there is any chance, could you drop me an email at thescu@gmail.com The question itself is vaguely time sensitive, so within the next 24 hours would be ideal. Thanks for any help, in advance.
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K-Punk
January 26, 2010
Parable
A reader writes: have just read Capitalist Realism and can relate directly with How Mark Fisher talks about the old/heavy, new/light inspection. I used to be a FE teacher but I now drive buses; I had to leave FE a...
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Hyper tiling
January 25, 2010
Philosophical Geekiness
I was reading Ian’s latest post about his appearance on a magazine as a Nerd Mafioso, and I started to wonder about my own identity, and on the identity of people out there that are like me (I just assume that you are out there guys). I grew up as an avid gamer (and I still [...]
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Critical Animal
January 25, 2010
Persons, persons everywhere!
(UPDATE: Greg has a post on personhood up, here). So, it seems my last post on the history of personhood is quite timely, everywhere we look there are discussions of personhood. Let's track down a few:Margaret Sommerville has an article arguing against personhood for animals. The article is at least 98% bunk (even her attacks against Singer are off base). Except for the honest argument that person [...]
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The Pinocchio Theory
January 25, 2010
More about objects
Discussing object-oriented philosophy, Voyou Desoeuvré suggests: It’s worth disentangling a number of different ways in which objects could be thought to be “real.” First would be to maintain that objects cannot be reduced to their components, either physical or sensory (that is, there really is a chair over there, not just an aggregate of atoms or [...]
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Ian Bogost
January 24, 2010
The New Nerd Mafia
Me in the Best of Atlanta — The Atlantan just put out their annual Best of Atlanta issue, and it includes a "design" section which features a handful of Georgia Tech researchers, myself among them. You can read it online; you'll just have to navigate to page 34-35, where the article begins. There are some zingers. As a preview, behold the start of the spread:... (read more)
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Critical Animal
January 24, 2010
A history of the concept of person
With the recent SCOTUS decision allowing corporations unlimited political speech, we've heard all sorts of things about this idea that corporations are persons. Some of those ideas have also touched on the relationship between animals and persons (see the comments made to Levi's post). None of this should surprise us, because questions surrounding animals and personhood have been around for a few [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
January 24, 2010
Continental versus X
On a related note it is about time we in the continental camp stopped referring to the phantom called analytic philosophy. The plain fact of the matter is that it does not exist any more. Whatever the other camp is today it is not concerned with language analysis alone but metaphysics *seriously!*, mind, cognitive science & logic itself - whether that is a question regarding the status of conceptu [...]
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Immanence
January 24, 2010
one of these (ambiguous & contradictory) mornings
Valery Lyman's 16-minute film, One of These Mornings, captures the pain, the joy, the happiness, and the excitement embodied in the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. Now, a year and a couple of months after that election, Ben Ehrenreich's Slate piece on the dramatic failures (already!) of the international, but especially US, response to the Haiti earthquake disaster, Why Did We Focus on [...]
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Hyper tiling
January 24, 2010
Haraway and Latour
Thanks to Paul Reid-Bowen and his idea of a paper regarding the (overdue) encounter between OOP and feminist theory (particularly feminist science studies), and the issue of masculinity and metaphysics, there has been some talk around about the role of Donna Haraway for OOP, and her connections with Latour. So yesterday I picked up from my [...]
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Pagan Metaphysics
January 23, 2010
Haraway and Object Oriented Ontology
I’m pasting some elements of Levi Bryant’s response to my proposed paper on Feminist Metaphysics as Object Oriented Ontology below.In the world of cultural studies and the humanities, I think there have been a number of privileged sites that have been directed towards bucking the primacy of anti-realist or correlationist thought than other disciplines by virtue of the nature of the objects that co [...]
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Critical Animal
January 23, 2010
A spy air drone may be coming to a city near you
I hear this a plot mechanism in the new season of 24. However, it seems that air drones are going to be used in parts of the UK. I've recently decided all sci-fi tropes are coming true.Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ­"routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, ­protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a signi [...]
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Critical Animal
January 23, 2010
More animal blogs?
I'm going to list the animal blogs I follow, but there are tons I have overlooked, including several obvious and important ones. Can people suggest more animal blogs for me to read, particularly if they are "critical"? I originally was trying the organize the list below into categories. And while some blogs that was fairly straightforward, it got annoying with others, so it is alpha by blog title. [...]
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Hyper tiling
January 23, 2010
Dead (end) Thoughts
Nihilism. Is there a way to decouple an ontological nihilism from a nihilism of meaning (values)? Levi claims that ‘nihilism emerges when the thinkers sides with the “nature” side of the distinction, reducing the cultural to the causal order of natural phenomena and thereby evacuating the cultural and human order [...]
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Speculative Heresy
January 22, 2010
Speculative Realism Reading Group
Speculative Realism Reading Group Nottingham Trent University will present its third reading group on Speculative Realism on Jan 27th, in Room 215 of the George Eliot at 1pm. The reading for this session will be Ray Brassier’s Nihil Unbound. Contact: patrick.oconnor[at]ntu.ac.uk Posted in Uncategorized
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Critical Animal
January 22, 2010
Copyright as performative contradiction
So, one of the weird things I didn't talk about with Hardt & Negri's Commonwealth is that the book is, of course, copyrighted. Hundreds of pages, many of which deal explicitly with the need to move beyond property relations, especially in forms of affective and cognitive labor. That these forms of 'biopolitical labor' belong to the common, and by releasing that we only enrich each other and th [...]
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Immanence
January 22, 2010
exquisite corpse
Michael Bérubé's In praise of humility is so good I can't resist posting a link to it. Why, indeed, has the Obama revolution lost its steam? I think Bérubé must be aiming for Andrei Codrescu's job as NPR's occasional commentator extraordinaire. Read it and weep (at least until you realize what's going on). Incidentally, Bérubé's latest book The Left at War is well worth reading and discussing, ev [...]
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