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Knowledge Ecology
June 20, 2013
QUERYING NATURAL RELIGION: IMMANENCE, GAIA, & THE PARLIAMENT OF LIVELY THINGS
Adrian Ivakhiv has all the details but for now read this sonorous description: The facets of Bruno Latour’s scholarship span a diverse breadth and depth: the sociology of science and technology, the formulation and development of actor-network theory, the theorization of agency in a more-than-human world, and the anthropology of modernity, including changing relations between […]
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Immanence
June 19, 2013
AAR panel on Latour’s Gifford Lectures
The AAR panel responding to 2013 Holberg Prize winner Bruno Latour’s Gifford Lectures has now been scheduled. Information is as follows. QUERYING NATURAL RELIGION: IMMANENCE, GAIA, & THE PARLIAMENT OF LIVELY THINGS Session A23-203 (Co-sponsors: Social Theory & Religion Cluster and Religion & Ecology Group) Saturday November 23 – 1:00 PM-3:30 PM Baltimore Convention Center [ [...]
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 19, 2013
video of tonight’s event in Nottingham
It was available on live stream too. My mistake not noting that here ahead of time.
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Archive Fire
June 19, 2013
synthetic_zero
Whence evolution? Any change in conditions is never a complete coordination of components, but rather a complex adjusting of variable elements according to intrinsic potencies and extrinsic force. So it is with base materials and so it is with scaffolded sentient worldviews. These past few months have been tumultuous with regard to my conceptual grasping of the world and its entities. Step backs a [...]
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Ecology without Nature
June 19, 2013
A Black Metallish Image
...of oil destroying things:
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Ecology without Nature
June 19, 2013
English Is a Creole
re: the recent immigration "debates" in the House.I hate to break it to you, people trying to promote forcing English to be the official language of the USA. But English isn't actually a language. That's why it's so effective as a language! It's a creole.I don't mean pidgin forms of English. I mean all English is a creole. It's a kluge of other tongues, heavy on nouns imported wholesale from [...]
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Ecology without Nature
June 19, 2013
Massage as a Path to Sanity
Very kindly my new friend Tedd got me a massage this week. It was the best one I've had since 1995 in Boulder. Really powerful. It became clear, as I was having quite a bad day, that the physical body has, as I've experienced a little bit and thought quite a bit for some time, a number of paths to greater sanity within it.Personally I would explain this by saying that the masseur kneaded my channe [...]
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
June 19, 2013
I received a CFP from Philosophia Africana
Web site here. Alas, it’s a pretty terrible web site, but if you’re doing work in Africana philosophy, it’s a ... Continue reading
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ANTHEM
June 19, 2013
Robert Brandom: Reason Genealogy and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity
Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, argues that genealogies (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault) present the revenge of naturalism on rationalism. Hegel teaches us how to replace the genealogical hermeneutics of suspicion with a hermeneutics of magnanimity that allows us to see naturalism and rationalism as complementing rather than competing with one ano [...]
from anthem-group.net
Ecology without Nature
June 18, 2013
A Simple Request
Adrenal glands, do you have to be so productive? Does there have to be so much adrenalin? I mean I'm only proofreading Hyperobjects here.
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Digital Digs
June 18, 2013
speculative rhetoric and the mooc
These are my two areas of interest. Well, “mooc” is really a stand-in for the more nebulous issues of digital literacy, pedagogy, and scholarship (a constellation of issues some might want to call “digital humanities”); moocs are the main way…
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Ecology without Nature
June 18, 2013
Pacifica Interview Today
This was an awful lot of fun. C.S Soong is a genius at his job. It airs at noon pacific time. Against the Grain on Pacifica Radio airs on KPFA 94.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, and on KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno and California's Central Valley. It also broadcasts worldwide via kpfa.org.
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Ecology without Nature
June 18, 2013
Proofs Checked
The random citation check indicated that everything was as perfect as it could be.This book is semiotically the shortest I've ever written at about 76000 words. But it won't be physically the shortest. With the color insert and index it will be about 220 pages. The press has nice big margins too.ym
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Ecology without Nature
June 18, 2013
International Perspectives on Feminist Ecocriticism
Just out! With an essay by me on Barad, Irigaray and objects.If you want to get into trouble, do write about Irigaray!
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Ecology without Nature
June 18, 2013
Karl Steel on Genes
This is very good. It gets to the heart of the matter, which is that DNA is a physical and a semiotic entity, a strange loop moreover in which the boundary between physical and semiotic can't be drawn in advance.
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Ecology without Nature
June 18, 2013
Hyperobjects Proofs
They have arrived. Extraordinarily, this book is going to appear, and on time too.What I'm going to do today is drive to school with my small people and print it up. This also gives me a chance to do my ritual: the random citation check.When I get proofs I choose at random several citations to check. If they are correct, I assume that the others are correct: they have of course been doubled and tr [...]
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
ANTHEM
June 18, 2013
Drones, Arthur Kroker
Kroker on Heidegger, technology, and human-being in the time of “drone-flesh”. http://ctheory.net/will/
from anthem-group.net
The Pinocchio Theory
June 17, 2013
Trigg, Levinas, Harman
I find that my position on speculative realism is close to that of Dylan Trigg, in his article in Speculations 4. Trigg seeks to expand phenomenology beyond the human — to devise an unhuman phenomenology, through recourse to early Levinas (Existence and Existents, and Time and the Other). There is something in experience that is [...]
from www.shaviro.com
Ecology without Nature
June 17, 2013
Evening Walk
And now it's time for our evening walk, which consists of a block or so to the Menil Collection, past the Rothko Chapel, and into the University of St. Thomas. There is a very good labyrinth there, and it's good to do walking meditation on it.
from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
Larval Subjects
June 17, 2013
Object-Oriented Ontology, Lacan, and the Subject
Often I hear people ask “where is the place of the subject in object-oriented ontology”?  The first thing to note is that object-oriented ontology (OOO) is not one particular ontology.  Rather, OOO denotes a genus with many different species, rather than a particular position.  In this regard, OOO is more a term like “empiricism”, “rationalism”, or “ideali [...]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Knowledge Ecology
June 17, 2013
Update — In the Flesh: Vulnerability in the Anthropocene and Beyond
My esteemed co-editor Jeremy Trombley as an update on our progress here. Filed under: Philosophy
from knowledge-ecology.com
Philosophy in a Time of Error
June 17, 2013
Jeremy Crampton on NSA and the Security State
On what is now a bustling societyandspace.com open site Jeremy Crampton discusses the costs of security.
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ANTHEM
June 16, 2013
Being-in-the-world by Tao Ruspoli
includes interviews with Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Taylor, Albert Borgmann, Mark Wrathall, taylor Carman, John Haugeland, Iain Thomson, and Sean Kelly. via:http://enowning.blogspot.com/
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ANTHEM
June 16, 2013
Latour’s Holberg acceptance speech
http://www.holbergprisen.no/en/bruno-latour
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Deontologistics
June 16, 2013
Burning Bridges
I’ve read a couple interesting posts over the last few days on the topic of the analytic/continental divide. The first was Jon Cogburn’s post linking to Ray Brassier’s talk on Sellars’ Nominalism at the Matter of Contradiction conference in London in March (the video unfortunately cuts out before the Q&A that I was involved in). […]
from deontologistics.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 16, 2013
one more bump
I’m just trying to get the Turkish live video feed down far enough on the screen to get my readers an unobstructed view. I know quite a number of people who are headed out to the protests right now.  
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 16, 2013
another bump
Please scroll down a couple of posts to watch reliable live feed of Turkish protests. No Turkish language skills are needed to understand what is happening today.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 16, 2013
bump
Just bumping the posts so that the live video feed of Turkish protest is less obstructed by the categories at right.
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 16, 2013
let’s see if this embedded live feed works…
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from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 16, 2013
live stream of events in Turkey today
Click HERE. Crowds are getting very large.
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 16, 2013
Portuguese translation of “brief SR/OOO tutorial”
The most popular post in the history of this blog is the “brief SR/OOO tutorial” of July 23, 2010. (For this reason I decided to include it as the short Chapter 1 of my forthcoming book Bells and Whistles, in press and due out this fall.) Gabriel Anaya in Brazil has now done a Portuguese […]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 16, 2013
the arrest of volunteer doctors who helped the protestors
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 16, 2013
German coverage of the Gezi Park attack (with English subtitles)
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Object-Oriented Philosophy
June 16, 2013
apparently an image of Turkish police adding chemical agents to the water-cannon water
[ADDENDUM: Turkish police have now openly admitted adding chemical acids to the water.]
from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com
Speculative Heresy
June 15, 2013
Translation of Laruelle’s “The Concept of Generalized Analysis or of ‘Non-Analysis’
Laruelle, François. “La concept d’analyse generalisée ou de ‘non-analyse’”, Revue internationale de philosophie, vol. 43, no. 171, issue 4 (1989), p. 506-524. The Concept of Generalized Analysis or of ‘Non-Analysis’ The Judaic Turn of Philosophy             The undoing of philosophy … Continue reading →
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Ian Bogost
June 15, 2013
One Thing Materialism Hasn't Ever Celebrated
Bruno Latour on the missing materials in materialism — Steven Shaviro pulled a delightful quote from Bruno Latour's recent book Enquête sur les modes d'existence. Une anthropologie des Modernes, which will be published in English next month as An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns. I haven't yet read the book in either language, but I'm reposting this quote in a [...]
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Digital Digs
June 15, 2013
on writing massively for #moocmooc
I’m lightly participating in Hybrid Pedagogy’s moocMOOC today, so this is in part about that but mostly about the familiar MOOC conversation about the scalability of writing instruction. As a WPA with 80+ instructors and 2500 students per semester, I…
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Ian Bogost
June 15, 2013
MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities (Part Two)
A roundtable at the LA Review of Books — On June 14-15, 2013, the LA Review of Books hosted a two-part roundtable on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS). Participants included me, Cathy N. Davidson, Al Filreis, and Ray Schroeder. Below is my contribution to part two, which included responses to the statements in part one (which you can find here; this response won't make much sense unless yo [...]
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ANTHEM
June 15, 2013
Placing lecture, Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold is a preeminent anthropologist, Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and author of numerous books on anthropology. Taking an unconventional view of his discipline. Professor Ingold tries to bring the “4 A’s” [anthropology, architecture, archaeology, and art] together, looking [̷ [...]
from anthem-group.net
Larval Subjects
June 14, 2013
A Disturbing Thought
Let’s begin from the premise that we are natural beings that evolved in a natural setting and that the types of nervous systems that were selected for as the genus homo evolved was not the sort of nervous system “designed” to know things as they are, but for getting around in the world.  What sorts of […]
from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Ian Bogost
June 14, 2013
MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities (Part One)
A roundtable at the LA Review of Books — On June 14-15, 2013, the LA Review of Books hosted a two-part roundtable on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS). Participants included me, Cathy N. Davidson, Al Filreis, and Ray Schroeder. Below is my contribution to part one, which included initial statements by each of the participa. Part two will include responses to these statements. Please visit [...]
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ANTHEM
June 13, 2013
What methods do, Annemarie Mol
Mol on the geography of methods/practices in “What methods do. Evocative questions and difficult audiences” Alexander von Humboldt Lecture Series, 2008-2009 on Reflexive Methodology: on doing qualitative, post-positivist research.
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
June 13, 2013
Democratic Theorist Mark Purcell on the Events in Turkey
At Society and Space’s open site here.
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inthesaltmine
June 12, 2013
Prayers of Oil and Salt: Negarestani’s Numogram (Part I)
Prayers of Oil and Salt: Reza Negarestani, in Cyclonopedia, does something magical in his narrative of the renegade Iranian archaeologist Dr. Hamid Parsani. I discover that the ideas bubbling up from below his text are much similar to what rings true for me in the course of my wandering, particularly with regard to the Tree [...]The post Prayers of Oil and Salt: Negarestani’s Numogram (Part [...]
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
June 11, 2013
Engaging interview with Alia Al-Saji at Phenomenologies of Race
Via feminist philosophers, here.
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Knowledge Ecology
June 11, 2013
This Splendid Rant from Slavoj Zizek
He’s just very good when he gets going sometimes. Listen to this 6:33 excerpt when you get a moment. The limits of self-organization and a reinvention of the state — Zizek almost sounds like Bruno Latour calling for a renewed faith in public institutions. Filed under: #OCCUPY, Philosophy Tagged: Bruno Latour, Occupy Wall Street, Slavoz
from knowledge-ecology.com
Digital Digs
June 11, 2013
writing and acceleration
Today I will take an early summer detour through the analogy of athletic training. This is familiar territory for rhetoric and composition, perhaps most famously in David Russell’s “Activity Theory and Its Implications for Writing Instruction:” To try to teach…
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ANTHEM
June 11, 2013
Gabriel Catren – A Portrait of the Object as a Disclosing Eidos
The Matter of Contradiction/Ungrounding the Object is the second event in a series of four focusing on the relationships between art and new forms of contemporary philosophy. The first event, Art Without Aesthetics, held in Rosascape, Paris, in December 2011, introduced the series, attending to questions of the artwork beyond anthropocentrism. This second event, Ungrounding […]
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ANTHEM
June 11, 2013
Rorty on the Compatibility of Science and Religion
In this talk, Richard Rorty discusses whether there’s any conflict between religion and science. *Note* Around 39 minutes in, the audio gets messed up for 3 or 4 minutes.
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Philosophy in a Time of Error
June 10, 2013
philosophy bites: Simon Glendinning on Philosophy’s Two Cultures (Analytic and Continental)
philosophy bites: Simon Glendinning on Philosophy’s Two Cultures (Analytic and Continental). I’ll give this a listen, but man I am ... Continue reading
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