speculative realism
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K-Punk
March 17, 2010
Hobbesian Gnosticism
Me on the Hobbesian Gnosticism of The Road in Film Quarterly......
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
the Meillassoux book
Now that the Meillassoux book cover has been designed before the book has even been written, I’m more motivated to start putting it in order. Brief interlude: the term “cargo cult” is generally used as an adjective of terrible abusiveness (cf. Feynman’s “cargo cult science”). Practicioners of the cargo cult would do things like build primitive [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
Cogburn on OOO
Cogburn plans A BOOK ON OOO. I certainly do hope he writes it. It’s fun to read his posts on the topic, largely because he writes about the things I care about, but in an analytic terminology that I sometimes struggle to grasp, and using figures that aren’t in my personal stable. I’ll keep an open [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
irreduction
Gratton hits on THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION for a term that would mean the opposite of reductionism: Latour’s irreduction. Yes, I should have thought to contribute that term to the earlier debate, but it slipped my mind. But, a few of the usual caveats: 1. The early Latour says everything is equally real, but not that everything is [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
the biting wit of Russell
It’s nearly impossible to make a funny joke involving the Holocaust, but Russell comes pretty close with this zinger (taken from p. 223 of Wittgenstein’s Poker): “Russell was later to claim that he knew of only six people who had read [Principia Mathematica] from beginning to end: three who perished in the Holocaust and three from [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
Kiran Desai
That was an uplifting lecture by novelist KIRAN DESAI. I missed her Saturday talk, absentmindedly thinking it was on Sunday instead. Tonight she was present for the reading of the two AUC student short stories that were awarded prizes for the year. She then gave a humane and wise talk on the necessity of loneliness [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 17, 2010
Latour is up next in my SR course…
For the realism class, Harman’s book on Bruno Latour is starting up today. We just finished Meillassoux and my students got a great grasp of it. We will return to Meillassoux after Latour and Harman, but that’s when we narrow down in few weeks to special topics that my students choose (speculative realism and art, [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 17, 2010
And the worst campuses?
I guess we can also take up the negative and ask about the worst campuses for students. We can exclude for the moment community colleges and other universities that often don’t even have a campus—just simply a building in some part of a city somewhere. St. Xavier in Chicago has one of its locations in [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 17, 2010
Good Looking Campuses
Forbes has a good slide show up (I got the link from here) on world’s best looking campus. (Be warned: the slides are separated by shots of ads for upscale cars, which you will only find in the student lots of many of these schools.) I think my own campus does deserve a vote as undeserving. [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
a few open minutes appeared
Sooner than expected, I had a chance to look at the DEONTOLOGISTICS response in a bit more detail. A few quick thoughts before I run off to the next Kiran Desai lecture. Knowing Deontologistics, he will probably come up with another detailed reply right away; if he does, I will do the best I can [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
quick response to Deontologistics
As is often the case, Deontologistics has A QUICK AND VERY DETAILED DISAGREEMENT with me already posted. I still owe him one response from some weeks ago, I believe. His posts are generally intricate enough that they take some time to digest. However, I think part of his implication that I’m unfairly carving up the [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Deontologistics
March 17, 2010
Scientific Vs. Metaphysical Realism?
This is a brief post to take issue with something Graham recently said on his blog (here). Graham has said similar things before, but I think this is one of the clearest examples of his opinion about the relation between science and realism. Graham first notes that the increasing fashionability of the term ‘realism’ in [...]
from deontologistics.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
H1N1 shot
Just got mine. My arm’s a little sore, but otherwise no bad reaction.
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
and one point on content
This is somewhat unfair, because as stated I haven’t read Marder’s book. But this passage cited by Cogburn is the sort of thing that worries me (and here I’m turning to the content, not the style which I quite frankly dislike): “If we are to learn how to hear the pro-vocative challenge, how to attune ourselves [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
March 17, 2010
Cogburn with a vigorous review
Cogburn is ANNOYED AT MARDER’S BOOK on the realist aspects of Derrida. I must admit that at first I was really excited by the title and topic of that book, but then was put off by the style as well and ended up not ordering it (or “amazoning” it, to use Cogburn’s phrase). Compare Martin Hägglund’s [...]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 16, 2010
Bookselling
I’m down with a rather harsh headache today, but I’m trying in my feeble state to think of way to produce links to a couple of other good posts to catch. I’ll put this under “how to see your philosophy book”: 1) Be named Bertand Russell. 2) Get a nice cover. 3) If your book gets knocked out of [...]
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ANTHEM
March 16, 2010
Graham Harman recordings
As the links to the recordings of Graham Harman’s talks are scattered around the site in various blog posts, I created a separate page (Graham Harman Audio) where they are all compiled. I’ll also copy them into this post. Listen to or download [100MB, MP3] – 1 hr 49 min recording of Graham Harman’s talk [...]
from anthem-group.net
We Have Never Been Blogging
March 16, 2010
The first rejoinder
Paul was writing his last post at the same time as I was writing mine--what's even more interesting is we were almost writing about the same things: what motivates Meillassoux, ultimately, to redescribe or "revise" (as he says at one point) the history of philosophy. My allusion to Derrida, picking up off of Paul's, was to suggest that while for him (Derrida), this derailing of the consistency of [...]
from wehaveneverbeenblogging.blogspot.com
Another Heidegger Blog
March 16, 2010
Post-Continental Voices
from anotherheideggerblog.blogspot.com
ANTHEM
March 15, 2010
Conflict networks
Nick Srnicek shows “the usefulness of actor-network theory for understanding conflict dynamics”: “Conflict Networks: Collapsing the Global into the Local.” Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, Issue 2, 2010, pp. 9-30 Abstract: Recent decades have seen a dual and simultaneous shift in conflict trends. With the end of the Cold War and superpower support, conflicts have [...]
from anthem-group.net
ANTHEM
March 15, 2010
A few issues in cosmopolitics
Listen to the entire audio or watch a bit of video: “Can nature be recomposed? A few issues in cosmopolitics” by Bruno Latour, with an introduction by Vincent Antonin Lépinay and a response by Mark Jarzombek, at MIT’s Science & Technology Studies Program, 22 February 2010 [...]
from anthem-group.net
We Have Never Been Blogging
March 15, 2010
Welcome to this correlationist house!
We turned to Meillassoux to get a better sense of what Harman will say, but also I think to place Latour--like Harman himself does. First and foremost, I think this means drawing out all the consequences of a more hard-hitting Latourian realism, which at first glance can look like (and Harman says this often) just old-fashioned realism pasted on to a weird logic of scientific practice. Latour does [...]
from wehaveneverbeenblogging.blogspot.com
Another Heidegger Blog
March 15, 2010
Heidegger as the Phenomenologist's Philosopher
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Another Heidegger Blog
March 15, 2010
Where does Meillassoux stand?
from anotherheideggerblog.blogspot.com
We Have Never Been Blogging
March 15, 2010
Where does Meillassoux stand?
It is a rare work of continental philosophy that slaps you with a bunch of empirical statements as positive evidence. Nonetheless as a statement of thinking and After Finitude is something of a provisional text pointing to a system to come, it is difficult to ascertain what Meillassoux’s thematic or contextual position is. Where is it, one might ask, that Meillassoux stands? And following on from [...]
from wehaveneverbeenblogging.blogspot.com
Ian Bogost
March 14, 2010
Play With Us
My GDC 2010 Microtalk — What follows is my short talk from the microtalks session at last week's Game Developers Conference. The format was a modified pecha kucha, with 20 slides advancing automatically every 16 seconds. The theme provided by organizer Rich Lemarchand was simply, "Play with Us." I chose to explore the relationship between developers and their audiences.   This is a very [...]
from www.bogost.com
Hyper tiling
March 14, 2010
The Farabi’s Fallacy
After some communication problems caused by some documents sent via snail mail, I finally received the reviewers’ comments to my article submitted to Philosophy East and West. Given that some corrections are necessary (as I somewhat expected, the main thrust of the critiques regards the legitimacy, and the actual success, of a narrowly focused cross-cultural [...]
from hypertiling.wordpress.com
ANTHEM
March 14, 2010
War of the Worlds
Now available as a PDF download from the publisher: Latour, B. (2002). War of the Worlds: What About Peace? Chicago, Prickly Paradigm Press.
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ANTHEM
March 14, 2010
New books on Gabriel Tarde
Latour, B. and V. A. Lépinay (2009). The Science of Passionate Interests: An Introduction to Gabriel Tarde’s Economic Anthropology. Chicago, Prickly Paradigm Press : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press. Candea, M. ed. (2010). The Social after Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments. London, Routledge.
from anthem-group.net
Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 14, 2010
Laruelle Talks
Anthony Paul Smith has up audiofiles from his own introduction to Laruelle and Laruelle’s own talks this past week at Dundee and Warwick.
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Immanence
March 14, 2010
two or three scenes...
How à propos: Today's Guardian's piece on The Greatest Film Scenes Ever Shot. What are your favorite scenes, your most indelibly etched screen memories, those "tiny pieces of time" as the article quotes James Stewart saying, that have remained with you ever since seeing them? (The comments open things up to a wider range than the actual article.) How about the coffee cup scene from Two or Three T [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
Immanence
March 14, 2010
cinema, ontology, ecology
I'm on my way this week to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in LA, where I'll be presenting, in miniature, the ecocritical/ecophilosophical model of cinema that I'm developing in my book-in-progress. This "process-relational" model draws on Peirce, Whitehead, Deleuze, Bergson, Heidegger, and others, with inspirational nods to psychoanalysis, cognitive film theory (which, to be h [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
ANTHEM
March 13, 2010
Reflections of an Actor-Network Theorist
YouTube video: “Networks, Societies, Spheres: Reflections of an Actor-Network Theorist” by Bruno Latour, The International Network Theory Conference, University of Southern California, 19 February 2010. Download PowerPoint slides [PDF]. Hat tip to and more information at Annenberg Networks Network.
from anthem-group.net
We Have Never Been Blogging
March 13, 2010
Where realism comes from
My philosophy cap is back on and I'm ready to delve into some Meillassoux and further comment upon Prince of Networks. But I just want to pause here--if I can pause before I go (certainly a philosophic question if there ever was one)--and suggest something I thought about as I was going through After Finitude: how different are the places from which Meillassoux's realism and Latour's realism come! [...]
from wehaveneverbeenblogging.blogspot.com
Planomenology
March 13, 2010
Principles for Historical Materialism
1. If something like the present can be isolated, be it in a wholly artificial fashion, the materiality or substance of that present is the past. Everything existing now is nothing but the coagulation of the past at a given moment. 2. To look into the past, as in giving a historical account, one can only [...]
from planomenology.wordpress.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 13, 2010
Quote of the Night…
I’m up late working through Kant and I thought I’d have to post some of the great lines from the Critique of Pure Reason. There are nuggets in there of good writing… But I happened upon this from Harman’s Tool Being: “The appearance of the Antichrist is no mere transient happening.” (Heidegger, 1920/21) Leave it to Graham [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 13, 2010
The Historicity of Branding… or “what I call ‘Branding’”
I was reading an article tonight that must have had one form or another of “what I call X” seven or eight times by my count. I would give examples, but that might be taken to mock a work that I otherwise like very much. I must say, I have yet to do this myself, [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 12, 2010
Larval Flows…
Larval Subject writes a good post following up on Scu’s discussion of the treatment of animal rights (see my last two posts). Larval goes in for a physics analogy, which I especially love since I’m doing a periodic jaunt on contemporary physics with a long, but clear, book on recent discoveries in physics: When passionate attachments [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 12, 2010
Nazism and Philosophy
Following up quickly on the last post, we really need a moratorium on reading the political out of the Nazi’s. I discuss this somewhere in my MS on sovereignty (to be published by SUNY), but Foucault also talks about how it affects our political imaginary, or at the least begins and ends too many conversations. [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Larval Subjects
March 12, 2010
Don’t Be a People Hater!
Scu of Critical Animal has a really interesting (and amusing) post up about certain forms of argumentation he often encounters in animal rights discussions. As Scu writes: One of the more peculiar charges made against those advocating for the liberation of animals, particularly those who advocate for animal rights, is that we somehow hate humanity. [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Ian Bogost
March 12, 2010
A Slow Year Cover Art
— GDC continues, and I owe this site updates. For now, a small one. I gave a short talk about A Slow Year at the Nuovo Sessions today, in which I revealed the cover and label art for the game. I thought I'd post those here for the rest of you, because it is awesome. The illustrator is the incredibly talented Lukas Ketner. If you're here at GDC, stop by my booth at the IGF pavilion for print [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
March 12, 2010
Scu’s Great Juxtaposition of Quotes
I’m beginning to get convinced, especially given Derrida’s later seminars, that perhaps his most prominent legacy for the next decade or so will be his writings on animals. He corrects well for that terrible interview in Positions with Jean-Luc Nancy (“Eating Well”) in which he talks about carniverousness, then labels it open to critique, and [...]
from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com
Critical Animal
March 12, 2010
They write posts!
So, I should write more rambling posts. Other people do the work of making them interesting. In this case, Levi has a great post up, and Peter has three (3) posts. See here, here, and here.I don't have time to respond right now, but go read them all.On another note, I have no clue why you read my blog and not be reading Levi's and Peter's blogs. I link to them out of blogger etiquette. But, seriou [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Critical Animal
March 12, 2010
Punch an animal in the face if you love humanity! (Or, I promise, I don't hate humans).
One of the more peculiar charges made against those advocating for the liberation of animals, particularly those who advocate for animal rights, is that we somehow hate humanity. That our desire for animal welfare, animal emancipation, etc., is based on an animus to humans. This is something I come across all the time, but let me just highlight three of the more philosophical versions of this argu [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Immanence
March 12, 2010
toward a post-constructivist synthesis
I recently mentioned my belief, or hope, that the humanities and sciences are working their ways toward a post-constructivist synthesis, a paradigm in the making with the potential to become a powerful player in twenty-first century public discourse. "Post-constructivism" says little, and "post-representationalism", "post-anthropocentric humanism," and "post-Kantianism" -- the other terms I used t [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
Larval Subjects
March 12, 2010
Why Academics are “Liberal”
An interesting article on why its a no brainer that academics are “liberal” in The Chronicle here. I always find it intriguing that conservatives that denounce liberal academia seem to believe that this political persuasion precedes the research of academics, biasing it, rather than seeing that it arises from this exact research and the [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Accursed Share
March 12, 2010
Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze: Re-Thinking War in the 21st Century
A really interesting call for papers and conference coming up in London, Ontario soon. Absolutely wish I could make it, though with any luck the organizers (hint, hint!) will have some recordings or texts made available after. Featuring two of the most interesting writers on the linkages between modern war and contemporary philosophy: Manav Guha (Reimagining War in the 21st Century: From Clausewit [...]
from accursedshare.blogspot.com
Immanence
March 11, 2010
Bigelow, Cameron, & the aesthetics of immersion
Steven Shaviro has a very nice post about Kathryn Bigelow following her Best Picture and Best Director wins at the Oscars. Shaviro celebrates her "poetics of vision" and aesthetics of "sensory immersion." On her earlier film Point Break, he writes: "everything comes out of, and returns back to, the element of water. Bigelow shows us the ocean and the beach as they have never been shown before. The [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
Critical Animal
March 11, 2010
One last hurrah on TAing.
Peter has a response up on the issue of TAing. If you are too lazy or too loyal to click the link (though both would be weird outlooks on life), here is the single most important thing he had to say in that post, perhaps ever on his blog.[A]nd just try not to make the jokes so corny that your significant other mocks you when you think you’re repeating a great laugh you had in class.
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Critical Animal
March 11, 2010
What can we do to better support TAs?
Peter Gratton has a response up to my post on the CHE articles (he also should be winning an award for best use of my name).He is absolutely right that for the most part that one learns by doing, especially with teaching. But, as he admits, there are things we can do to also better support our teachers, especially the TAs. I'm just thinking out loud here about some things I think that would be rel [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Larval Subjects
March 11, 2010
Things I Don’t Understand
In discussions of French inflected Marxist political theory I often get the sense that democracy is treated as a dirty word or the contrary of Marxism. The subtext seems to be that somehow neoliberalism and democracy are one and the same thing, or that the concept of democracy is identical to the actually existing [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Critical Animal
March 11, 2010
Academia's own Catcher in the Rye
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a five part series on being an English graduate student at a prestigious university, entitled "Academic Bait and Switch". The author, the university, the people mentioned in the articles, are all pseudonymous (what are we, the DC press corps?). I wanted to talk about the parts of the series that I think were important, before I talk about what b [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
Immanence
March 11, 2010
comments
Readers may have noticed that I've turned off automatic commenting to the blog. The ever increasing amount of spam, some of which always manages to squeeze its way through the (fairly strong) spam filter, was getting intolerable. I've just discovered, however, that a handful of genuine comments from longtime readers also got caught in the spam filter, for one reason or another, instead of going to [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
ANTHEM
March 11, 2010
Market studies explosion?
Looking at the list of accepted papers (RTF file) at the 1st Interdisciplinary Market Studies Workshop coming up in Sweden in June this year, I’m wondering if “explosion” is too hyperbolic a term or just right to describe what seems to be a dramatic increase of interest in the social study of markets these days. [...]
from anthem-group.net
Larval Subjects
March 10, 2010
Books Everyone Should Read: A Tribute to Burke
I’m still laid low by my cold, which oddly seems to only be getting worse, so this evening I found myself groping for something to read just to distract myself. There aren’t very many books that I find myself picking up now and then just for the sheer pleasure of reading them, but Kenneth [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
K-Punk
March 10, 2010
Itchy Chin Club discussion of Capitalist Realism
There will be a discussion of Capitalist Realism at the Itchy Chin Club (an "art, culture, politics, history and philosophy book group based in central London") on 31st March. Details here. All welcome....
from k-punk.abstractdynamics.org
Ian Bogost
March 10, 2010
An Atari Travels
My VCS Goes to GDC — As you may remember, I brought my Atari out to GDC for the Independent Game Festival. It's been having an unusual time indeed during its travels, and I believe it hasn't seen this much excitement in some 33 years. Here are some highlights: In the Delta SkyClub Stowed under the seat in front of me At the baggage carousel In the taxi Resting from its journey Preparing for [...]
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Complete Lies
March 10, 2010
Plant Your Post-Apocalyptic Garden with Survival Seeds
The following is an ad for Survival Seeds. They were advertised on Glenn Beck’s show the other night and feed into the paranoia of his message, an attempt to prepare the viewer for the day Obama and his secret police shut down all of the banks and (for some reason?) close all of the grocers. [...]
from buymeout.wordpress.com
Critical Animal
March 10, 2010
Ranciere and Fish
I know I have been just letting this blog sit here for a bit. Sorry, I am still sending off applications to have funding to finish my dissertation next year. So, really, I am working on the long term stability of this blog.Anyway, I wanted to link to this i.t. post about Ranciere on the internet and wikipedia. But this reminded me of a dream I had last night.I know, I know. No one wants to hear ab [...]
from criticalanimal.blogspot.com
K-Punk
March 10, 2010
Hauntology at Cafe Oto
The Wire Salon: Revenant Forms: The Meaning of Hauntology A new series of monthly salon-type events, hosted by The Wire magazine at Cafe Oto in East London, and dedicated to the fine art and practice of thinking and talking about...
from k-punk.abstractdynamics.org
K-Punk
March 10, 2010
Kafka 2010
There's been a room change for my talk tomorrow at King's .... it will now be in K.3.11, Strand campus, time the same (6 p.m.)...
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Naught Thought
March 09, 2010
Dark Vitalism: 1/10 – Becoming, Flux, the All
/1/ – Nature is the concept for the All, an All which has being as becoming but not a becoming of pure-flux or totalizing immanence. This becoming is interrupted and crystalized at various stages akin to a Schellingnian/Grantian Stufenfolge (what I have also refered to as the cosmological cascade). This process of grounding and ungrounding [...]
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Larval Subjects
March 09, 2010
Philosophers (except Plantinga) Who Ought to Know Better
Nagel, Fodor, and Plantinga responding to Darwin. Plantinga is excusable because of his theology and the manner in which this requires him to reject the thesis that humanity is the result of random chance. There’s no compromise here in evolutionary theory: every species, including humans, is, within the framework of evolutionary theory [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Another Heidegger Blog
March 09, 2010
Update
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Hyper tiling
March 09, 2010
Barcodes and Objects
Via Techcrunch, I just bumped into a new app developed for iPhone/Android. It’s called Stickybits and it exploits the smartphone’s barcode scanners in order to attach digital content to real objects. Basically, you either buy or print yourself a barcode sticker, you associate some digital content with the specific barcode (be it text, video, audio, [...]
from hypertiling.wordpress.com
Planomenology
March 09, 2010
If We’ve Never Been Modern, We Must Become Modern
Skimming through Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern, I’ve noticed a striking omission. The principle thesis of the book is that modernity involves the “work of purification”, which attempts to clarify (or impose) a sharp and exclusive divide between the natural and the cultural spheres. If we have never been modern, it is because [...]
from planomenology.wordpress.com
Critical Animal
March 09, 2010
Call for Book Proposals
Call for Book ProposalsWe are pleased to invite proposals for a new book series, Critical Animal Studies, to be published by Rodopi Press, one of Europe’s premiere academic presses. The main goals of the series, which differentiates it from the pre-existing series in the field of animal studies, are that we are particularly looking to publish works that:(a) focus on ethical issues pertinent to act [...]
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Pagan Metaphysics
March 09, 2010
Dungeons, Dragons and Philosophy
There are few things more powerful than nostalgia. Despite the weight of admin, marking and child induced sleep deprivation, that has kept me away from blogging for some time, Graham Harman's recent posts on Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy have stirred me to emerge. Along with many others, I can confidently say that few things exerted such a profound influence on my adolescent, teenage and lat [...]
from paganmetaphysics.blogspot.com
Larval Subjects
March 09, 2010
The Carpentry of Reference
In comments Cogburn writes: This is probably goofy, but I’ve been trying to situate you and Graham with respect to each other (I’m just now coming out of a philosophical hiatus of new baby inspired sleep deprivation, and really happy to be thinking about Speculative Realism). Is this fair? A workable credo for a lot of Graham’s [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Larval Subjects
March 08, 2010
Going Full Nerd
For the last week or so I’ve been in the grip of a rather nasty Spring cold, so it was a nice respite and surprise to be approached by Cogburn to contribute to the collection he’s putting together on Dungeons & Dragons and philosophy. When I ran this by Mel it actually generated some [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
K-Punk
March 08, 2010
Content
Back soon, but in the meantime, be sure to check out Chris Petit's remarkable film, Content, on More4 tomorrow night. Here's my take on the film.... One of the most gratifying aspects of Content ... is that by contrast...
from k-punk.abstractdynamics.org
The Pinocchio Theory
March 08, 2010
Kathryn Bigelow
Despite all the snarky comments I’ve been getting, both about the film itself and about the director’s two acceptance speeches, I remain unrepentetly thrilled that Kathryn Bigelow won the Best Director and Best Film Oscars for The Hurt Locker. There are just some times when, for me at least, rampant and delirious auteurism trumps everything. [...]
from www.shaviro.com
Immanence
March 08, 2010
the horror...
I went to see Lars von Trier's Antichrist a few days ago. Of the reviews I've read, Brent Plate's captures the way in which the film's images persist in haunting one's consciousness. Plate, aptly I think, compares the film to Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will, the film that Adolf Hitler called "an incomparable glorification of the power and beauty of our Movement": "Like Riefenstahl’s Triumph [...]
from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu
Ian Bogost
March 07, 2010
Exergames, Microtalks, Nuovo Sessions, and More
My 2010 Game Developers Conference schedule — This week is the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. For those of you who want to catch up with me there, here's my speaking schedule for the week: Tuesday and Wednesday I'm co-hosting the Serious Games Summit (with Ben Sawyer and Jane McGonigal). I'll be moderating two panels there, as follows: Wednesday 3:00- 4:00 Room 133, North Hall, [...]
from www.bogost.com
Hyper tiling
March 07, 2010
Just a test
To see if my WordPress app works fine.
from hypertiling.wordpress.com
Hyper tiling
March 06, 2010
A New Earthrise
The video I am posting here is a couple of years old, but since I have recently written something about the Earthrise picture, I thought I would share it. The first picture of Earth taken by a human astronaut was the famous ‘Earthrise’ picture, taken (on colour film) on December 24th 1968 by the crew of [...]
from hypertiling.wordpress.com
Speculative Heresy
March 06, 2010
Translation of Laruelle’s “Badiou and Non-Philosophy: a Parallel”
Translator’s Note: In order to avoid any sort of confusion, it should be noted that this article was included in an anthology of essays engaging various aspects of non-philosophy in contemporary philosophers. This article immediately follows Laruelle’s own essay responding to Deleuze, but was–for reasons that will become clear after reading–published under the pseudonym Tri [...]
from speculativeheresy.wordpress.com
Ian Bogost
March 05, 2010
Exhaust Objects
Thoughts from an Atari 1978 Board and ROM — In anticipation of the Independent Game Festival next week, today I constructed the first two cartridges of A Slow Year. More on that soon, but for now I wanted to share the object below, residue from the construction. It's a board holding a 2k mask ROM for an Atari game. The photo probably stands alone as far as a blog post goes, but I realized so [...]
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Hyper tiling
March 05, 2010
Closer to Truth?
As someone researching ’science and religion’, I often browse through the video interviews on the Closer to Truth website, a US TV program which is described as exploring ‘fundamental issues of universe, brain/mind, religion, meaning and purpose through intimate, candid conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, scholars, theologians and creative thinkers of all [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
March 05, 2010
Another Defense of Heidegger
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Immanence
March 04, 2010
spiritualizing science
or, Carl Sagan rides again, and again... Prometheus Unbound raises questions about the atheist spirituality of Symphony of Science's star-scientist-studded videos (pun only slightly intended -- they are mostly men, yes, but drumming on djembes (!), and it's well worth waiting to see Jane Goodall tell us about the "wuzzy" line between humans and the rest of nature in the video below, starting at a [...]
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Un-Canny Ontology
March 04, 2010
Ontological blindness?
In English there are two essential types of words: 1) words that have to do with objects (nouns) and 2) words that have to do with actions (verbs). And, just as Aristotle claimed of onoma and rhema, any structure that weaves these two types of words together is where discourse takes place. But another way of reading this “weaving together” would be to say that in discourse, or logos, we discover t [...]
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Accursed Share
March 04, 2010
Conflict Networks
Blogging obviously has slowed to a crawl here, in no small part due to an overwhelming amount of work both for my PhD and for other commitments. With any luck it will pick back up once I get a few responsibilities over with and have some free time again.But in the meantime, I just wanted to point any interested readers over to an article I just had published in the Journal of Critical Globalisatio [...]
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Ian Bogost
March 03, 2010
We Have Never Been Threshing
Winner, Weirdest Use of a Combine Metaphor — From Moral Leadership in a Postmodern Age, by Ron Hill: If modernity acted like a combine harvester, sweeping away the old crop and transforming it into uniformly square bales, postmodernity allows some of the crops to survive and even to be replanted amidst the bales. It's sort of awesome. Maybe just because I love combine harvesters.... (read mo [...]
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Larval Subjects
March 03, 2010
The Democracy of Objects in the Buff
Weighing in at a whopping 509 single spaced pages or 253,000 words, here are the initial notes and sketches for The Democracy of Objects that I’ve put together over the last year or so. Next comes the process of winnowing and organizing, getting this monster down to between two and three hundred pages or [...]
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Another Heidegger Blog
March 03, 2010
The New Book (with zero)
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Another Heidegger Blog
March 03, 2010
In Defense of Heidegger
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Ian Bogost
March 03, 2010
Shell Games
On the achievementalization of the world. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra. — In a widely disseminated talk at DICE last month, Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center professor Jesse Schell made a provocation: can game-like external rewards make people lead better lives? To answer the question, Schell explored hypothetical scenarios that might combine awards [...]
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Hyper tiling
March 03, 2010
The Internet by the Numbers
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
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Larval Subjects
March 01, 2010
The Open and the Closed
In response to my recent post on Endo-Relations and Topology, Will writes: “Rather, the proper being of the object is not its performance or manifestation, but the generative mechanism that serves as the condition under which these performances or manifestations are possible…” “…No one has ever perceived a single object, but we do perceive all sorts of [...]
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Critical Animal
March 01, 2010
New blog, The Contemperory Condition.
Let me suggest this new group blog of some of the more interesting political theorists, The Contemporary Condition. Bloggers include:William E. ConnollyJairus Victor GroveGeorge ShulmanDavid HowarthMichael J. ShapiroTerrell CarverDavide PanagiaTimothy MortonSteven JohnstonDavid Campbell
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Immanence
March 01, 2010
Canada's big (schmaltzy) sell
The Olympics are many things. Some of them are obvious: a celebration of sport, physical achievement, and excellence; a way to bring nations together in competitive cooperation (or cooperative competition) rather than in war. Others take a few moments' reflection to notice: they are a way for local, and sometimes national, coalitions of business interests to make lots of money, usually at others' [...]
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We Have Never Been Blogging
February 28, 2010
Detour
We're taking a detour here. Anticipating the discussion of Meillassoux in Prince of Networks, we're going to focus now on After Finitude. There's still a LOT of the first part of Prince of Networks that we want to get to (I personally want to do several more posts like the one on the dissenter), so expect posts on that to pop up every once and a while in between Meillassoux posts. And we'll be com [...]
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Ian Bogost
February 28, 2010
Philosopher Slab Poems, in Pixels and Letters
Also, win a copy of a book I haven't yet written — Sometimes serious ideas emerge from the strangest places. Last week Harman tossed an offhand question onto his blog: Who is the most overrated philosopher?. It sparked quite serious discussion all over. So serious that before long, Harman found himself wondering if an anthology of opinions on "overrated philosophers" could indeed become a se [...]
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K-Punk
February 28, 2010
NuBureaucracy Round-up
Just a series of links and responses, pending a proper post once I get through the current blizzard of commitments. 1. Things are clearly hotting up, as Nina's report from Take Back Education indicates. In respect of Jim Wolfreys' demand...
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Another Heidegger Blog
February 28, 2010
Speculations
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Objects & Things
February 27, 2010
Experimental Objects Workshop
Yet another example of the growing attention to objects at the intersection of design and science and technology studies. Experimental Objects Workshop at the Institute for Advances Studies at Lancaster University. Subject to experimenters’ manipulations, objects can seem to be exposed to human curiosity and imagination; controlled through experimental systems (Rheinberger 1997) and design [...]
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Immanence
February 27, 2010
weird life, shadow biospheres, dark signs... & quakes
The Biology Blog's post on shadow biospheres intrigued me in part because I've been reading Charles Sanders Peirce, for whom semiosis is writ large (and small) throughout all things. Musing philosophically about the search for life on other planets, the author, cyoungbull, writes, "Unless we know how to interpret the signs of such life, we may not be able to distinguish it from the natural backgro [...]
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Deontologistics
February 27, 2010
Brandom and Ethics
Jon Cogburn has just put up a post about the ethical implications of Brandom’s thought (here). As much as I respect Jon, I’m afraid I almost entirely disagree with the post. I think he’s being really unfair to Brandom. I mean no offence to him, but his claim that some of Brandom’s remarks (to the [...]
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Ian Bogost
February 26, 2010
How to Turn Heavy Rain into a Restroom Simulator
The Urinal Sublime — I'm still working my way through Heavy Rain, and I'll save my comments about the game until I finish. For now, I broke it in an interesting way that's worth sharing. When you are playing as Norman Jayden in the police headquarters, it is possible to go into the men's room. One plot element requires this, but later you can visit again to regain your composure or to reliev [...]
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