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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 22, 2012
an article on Ahmed Shafik
THIS PIECE comes from Time, and it also hints at the sense that Shafik may be enjoying a surge in popularity and could even end up in the runoff. Here are some quotes from the story reflecting why I don’t like Shafik: “Within five minutes, the armed forces gave an example of what they can [...]
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Ecology without Nature
May 22, 2012
Hypnotic Speed
"There is a problem in thinking that you are supposed to be advancing in your practice all the time. You don’t have to constantly be on the road. If you have a flat tire, that is also part of the journey. Ambition makes you feel that you are not doing anything. There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fa [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 22, 2012
Issuu – Experiments With Publishing Software
I have just recently been made aware of Issuu, an online publishing service for magazines, websites, books, and journals. Having only briefly used the site this afternoon I cannot give a full review of the services yet, but so far things look promising. In addition to offering users an intuitive interface with which to publish [...]
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Digital Digs
May 22, 2012
composing objects and other C & W keynotes
Thanks to Dan Anderson (@iamdan) for recording this. I've also included Dave Parry's video. When Anne Wysocki's becomes available, I'll add it.
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Ecology without Nature
May 22, 2012
Romanticism 17: Charlotte Smith
Goth! An ethereal realm just below beauty but above horror and disgust. Goth ecology.
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Digital Digs
May 22, 2012
glitches are us
At Computers and Writing, I was asked several times about my discussion of glitches in my keynote talk. Since I was addressed the New Aesthetic, a discussion of glitches was inevitable. However, I then moved on to think about the...
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Naught Thought
May 22, 2012
Media(tions), Cybernetic Futures, Febrile Cess-Oceans
  I’ve made several recent posts regarding possible connections between the prehistory of Speculative Realism (in particular the work of the CCRU as technologically focused philosophy, cyber-feminism, and weird Deleuzian experimentalism) and rising movements and recent turns: affective turn, the posthuman, the nonhuman, and so on. There is an intertwined interest in moving past the [... [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 22, 2012
Tamen Anggrek — Jakarta, Indonesia
The video comes to me by way of THIS art and design blog curated by one Jason Jose. The installation announces a mode of visual beauty that approaches a geological scale. There’s a disorienting quality to it, as though the whole set up were the mouth of some giant manta ray hypnotizing it’s prey with [...]
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Ecology without Nature
May 21, 2012
OOO Class 8: Materialisms (Video, MP3)
We got way stuck into quantum theory from the first five minutes on...
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Networkologies
May 21, 2012
Thoughts on Immortality: From a Skeptical Philosopher Who Doesn’t Want to Be Decieved, But Sees Potential in Ibn Arabi, and Spacetime Smearing
As anyone who’s read this blog recently knows, this has been a time of loss in my life. And this has lead me to return to questions that once seemed much less interesting to the philosophical side of me. Like if philosophy should provide comfort in the face of loss, death, pain, etc. This post [...]
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Ecology without Nature
May 21, 2012
Alan Watts Latour Litany
HT Jordan Peacock:What, then, is Life; what is Reality, that it may inspire us with devotion?" If we regard it as a particular way of living or as a particular kind of existence and accord our devotion to that, what are we doing? We are revering its expression in great personality, in the behavior of those whom we consider "real persons." But here is the snag. When we revere real personality [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 21, 2012
Spam on WordPress Today
I’m not quite sure what’s happening yet, but it appears that a number of spambots have broken through the WordPress spam filter today. I’ve already deleted 15 new comments that appear to be fake (they are all written in horrible english, refer to old posts, and have little to say about the actual content of [...]
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Ecology without Nature
May 21, 2012
Buddha on Withdrawal
"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground."
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Ecology without Nature
May 21, 2012
Rice Webpage
Here's what we've got so far.
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Ecology without Nature
May 21, 2012
Help Me Finish This Essay!
All my books are in transit between Davis and Houston.I'm trying to a find a page number in a decent edition of The Fellowship of the Ring.It's the part (I think it's part 2 chapter 2) where Gandalf says “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”You can email me or just post a comment here.
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Ecology without Nature
May 21, 2012
DIY
One of the objections to OOO, I think, is purely institutional. Not even to do with the content of institutions, but with their dynamics as systems, with some human psychology thrown in as part of the basic energy that circulates in them.Systems, like other beings, exist in a state of tension between inconsistency (existence) and consistency (absorption into some other system). To maintain the sys [...]
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Ecology without Nature
May 21, 2012
Alex Reid's Computers and Writing Keynote
Looks good!
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Ecology without Nature
May 21, 2012
Backwash
I'm up and walking, sitting, drinking coffee at half past six am. What is this rush? In part it's my body on autopilot—there has been a lot of a adrenalin these last few weeks, buying and selling a house in record time (six weeks) will do that to you. But behind this, there is a “flight from myself” going on, as Heidegger would put it. Transition churns up basic anxiety, your best friend who accom [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 21, 2012
NY Times on the pre-election atmosphere in Egypt
An informative piece, HERE. I’m becoming more and more excited about the election as time goes by (unfortunately, I will be out of Egypt on a brief vacation that was scheduled before I realized when the election would be, and then I will be visiting family in theU.S. and Canada at the time of the [...]
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Naught Thought
May 20, 2012
Searching for Sadie Plant
Over at the blog for the upcoming nonhuman turn conference Rebekah Sheldon has a post on nonhuman thought entitled “Affect, Epistemology, and the Nonhuman Turn” which is interesting for several reasons. For one, it questions the issue of the status of human thinking in the nonhuman turn especially the assumption that thought is given access [...]
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Naught Thought
May 20, 2012
Ravaisson/Negarestani/Schelling
Ravaisson begins to close Of Habit writing: “Between the ultimate depths of nature and the highest point of reflective freedom, there are an infinite number of degrees of measuring the development of one and the same power, and as one rises through them, extension – the condition of knowledge – increases with the distinction and [...]
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Digital Digs
May 20, 2012
Composing objects: prospects for a digital rhetoric #cwcon
Below is the text of my keynote talk from the Computers and Writing conference. There was a video made, so I will include that when it becomes available. Thanks to everyone on NC State for making the conference so successful,...
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Immanence
May 20, 2012
SAR “Nature, Science, Religion” volume out
I received my copies in the mail this week of the book that arose out of the School of Advanced Research seminar on “Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment.” It’s a handsome volume, whose contents provide a level of cross-cutting conversation that, I think, is rare among edited collections. Catherine Tucker [...] Related posts:Religious [...]
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Ian Bogost
May 19, 2012
A Game of Throwns
For some reason I made this... — ... (read more)
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 19, 2012
some good Detroit techno
Robert Hood, “Chase” (1994). I was at a Toronto club that Hood d.j.’ed in 1998, and was completely unaware at the time of who he was. I’ve always regretted not knowing in advance, but he was amazing anyway.
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Intra-Being
May 19, 2012
Some notes on Stengers’ ‘Au Temps des Catastrophes’
Way back during the first week of January, I was in Ghana attending the 6th African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Conference, listening to international development evaluators from around the world talk about ‘Rights and Responsibilities in Development Evaluation’. The event was … Continue reading →
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 19, 2012
more on James Bradley
Peter Gratton has more information about Bradley’s death, HERE. My sense from meeting him once was that he was a rather exceptional person and thinker. He was the kind of person who sticks with you after even one meeting, and I’ve remembered that meeting quite a few times over the past 18 months.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 19, 2012
the origins of techno
It’s well known that techno music grew out of funk. If you listen to the earliest Juan Atkins recordings, you can easily hear it. Atkins in around 1983 sounds like funk on a skipping record player, repeating the same bars over and over again. A couple of years ago, I suddenly felt like dipping back [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 19, 2012
in memoriam, James Bradley
Just saw Steven Shaviro mention this on Facebook, and then went to the Philosophy Department website at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, which seems to confirm that Professor Bradley died on May 17. I only met Bradley once, at the Claremont conference in December 2010. He left quite an impression, with his colorful personality (I [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 19, 2012
Egyptian election more fascinating all the time
Presidential campaign posters are everywhere, Egyptians are listening and talking politics, and it’s all quite moving. I was just told at a luncheon that the results of the absentee ballots were announced today (why do that prior to the general election?), and the person at my lunch table said that Aboul Fotouh and Moussa did [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
May 19, 2012
Sad news from home…
This is the terrible news from back home: “Dr. James Bradley, head of the Faculty of Arts’ philosophy department, passed away on Thursday May 17, 2012 after a long illness.  Originally from Liverpool, Dr. Bradley was educated at Cambridge University where he received his PhD in 1983. He was a Humboldt Fellow in philosophy at [...]
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Larval Subjects
May 18, 2012
On Problems, Multiplicities, Regimes of Attraction, and Ethics
In response to my earlier post entitled Speculative Realism, the Commons, and Politics, a friendly poster asks, Could the facing of “problems” be the universal here; a transcendent situation? Furthermore part of this situation is that where one group sees a problem another group sees no problem. Ethics and politics are the contingent discourses that [...]
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Speculative Heresy
May 18, 2012
Laruelle and Non-Philosophy for £4.99
I don’t know if Amazon has chosen us as the book of the month or something, and I am sure the price will jump up in the next few days, but you can pre-order Laruelle and Non-Philosophy for £4.99 right … Continue reading →
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Intra-Being
May 18, 2012
Delanda, assemblages and objects
In my last post (objects, matter and relational forms) I made a case for the reality of objects as relational forms composed of other objects. The extension of object-hood to objects composed of humans, such as families, raised a number … Continue reading →
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Larval Subjects
May 18, 2012
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects
Jeffrey J. Cohen’s edited collection on nonhumans is now out with Punctum Books and looks fantastic! I can’t wait to read this. Animal, Mineral, Vegetable examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through a careful examination of medieval, early modern and contemporary lifeworlds, these essays collectively argue against ecological [...]
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Ian Bogost
May 17, 2012
Food Insofar As They Give You Food
A tiny note on first class air travel — I fly a bajillion miles a year and as such I have access to the first class cabin on almost every flight, which makes me a lucky bastard as much as a privileged one. I thought I'd share, from a plane of course, just one humbling notes on modern first class travel just to assure the purported-rabble that things up front aren't gilded so much as smeared [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 17, 2012
The Impossible Society
By Daniel Reuber HERE. Filed under: Art, Object-Oriented Ecology Tagged: Daniel Reuber, The Impossible Society
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 17, 2012
lecture in Curitiba back on
At first it looked like it might be cancelled due to flight itinerary issues, but now the fourth Brazil lecture, in eco-city Curitiba, is back on. More details soon, but it will fall in the August 8-16 range somewhere.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 17, 2012
a headline that I first found worrying, then comical
This is the headline, from the NY Times: “G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama” And you first think, “uh-oh, we know these guys are capable of anything.” But then you read quotes like this: “The plan, which is awaiting approval, calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
May 17, 2012
Garcia on Meinong
I’ve now read Tristan Garcia’s essay distinguishing his own position from Meinong’s (and to a lesser extent from mine). It’s a wonderful essay, lucid as usual. If you’re comfortable in French, you can find the essay publicly available HERE. If you want to hear Garcia deliver the lecture in person at the marvelous seminar series [...]
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Networkologies
May 17, 2012
The Metaphysics of Refraction in Sufi Philosophy: Ibn Arabi, Suhrawadri, and Mulla Sadra Shirazi
A Metaphysics of refraction, in which God dreams up the world, and we are the refractions of his light. What could this mean? This post will examine how this all plays out in the Sufi philosophies of Ibn Arabi, Suhrwahadri, and Mulla Sadra Shirazi. First, a little context. Any attempt to describe God in any [...]
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Networkologies
May 17, 2012
Fana’: Sufism’s Notion of Self-Annihilation, or How Rumi Can Explain Why Nirvana is Samsara in Mahayana Buddhism
Sufism is the mystical side of Islam. And for those who know something about Sufism, it is perhaps no small surprise that it cohabitated well with various aspects of Hinduism and Buddhism in Indic lands, even having a hand, along with Hinduism, in the birth of Sikhism. This post will work to show why there [...]
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Larval Subjects
May 16, 2012
Speculative Realism, the Commons, and Politics
Over at This Cage is Worms Cameron has a nice post responding to my recent post on ontology and politics and articulating his own meditations on the political within a speculative realist framework.  I truly wish that I had a better answer to the question of the political, but there are a couple of reasons [...]
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Knowledge Ecology
May 16, 2012
A Review of Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell
HERE. My favorite quote from the review: For Pignarre and Stengers, at its most basic, capitalism is a social system which depoliticises decision-making practices or, as they state eloquently: “a politics that kills politics.” (15) Such depoliticisation, frequently disguised as a set of technocratic processes, tends to proceed through the production of “infernal alternatives,” or, [...]
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Digital Digs
May 15, 2012
composition's process-product problem
Mike Edwards has a provocative post on the process movement that previews a Computers and Writing presentation I hope to attend later this week. Edwards takes up networked accounts of composing, as we see in Jody Shipka and Byron Hawk,...
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Ian Bogost
May 15, 2012
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
A new book in software studies — My next book is even stranger than my last. It's an entire book, 65,000+ words worth, about a single-line Commodore 64 BASIC program that is inscribed in the book's title, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. And if that isn't strange enough, I wrote the book with nine other collaborators (Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. [...]
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ANTHEM
May 14, 2012
Everything Is Not Connected
” Everything Is Not Connected:” audio of Graham Harman’s keynote at transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2 February 2012 The idea that everything is interconnected has become a staple of intellectual life. As a related phenomenon, “contextualisation” is now the method of first resort throughout the humanities. This lecture opposes the general trend [...]
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Larval Subjects
May 14, 2012
Hasana Sharp: Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization
Peter Gratton of Philosophy in a Time of Error has a written a great review of Hasana Sharp’s Spinoza and the Politics of Naturalization. This sounds like an important book and will be among those I read for my research this summer. Thanks for the heads up Peter!
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Immanence
May 14, 2012
For the moment
Now that a very busy semester has ended, I can return to the constructive speculative-metaphysical strand of this blog, in which I work out the process-relational philosophy I’ve tentatively labelled Ecosophy-G. A suitable acronym for this project might be “pre-G” (process-relational ecosophy-G), pronounced “pree-jee,” with the “pre” also indicating that t [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
May 14, 2012
Trending on the on NYTimes web site
#1 most emailed article: Can a nine year old be a psychopath? #3 most emailed article: Capitalists and Other Psychopaths. Combining them, I guess, and you get warning signs for psychopathology such as your child reading Ayn Rand, refusing to do a lemonade stand since the “opportunity costs are too high,” and preferring cash gifts over [...]
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