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Monthly Archives: July 2013

Human Body Evolutionary Patchwork, Alan Walker

July 28, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

http://anth.la.psu.edu/people/awalker “We are full of the accumulated baggage of our idiosyncratic histories. The body is built on an old form, out of parts that once did very different things. So […]

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Erin Manning:The Shape of Enthusiasm

July 27, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxKeysqG3ho

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Mature: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, Taylor Carman

July 26, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Mature: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty,Taylor Carman 3am interview with : “Taylor Carman is the go-to guy on 19th and 20th century European philosophy who broods on Heidegger and what an understanding […]

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The World Is A Ghetto, Geto Boys

July 25, 2013by dmf 2 Comments
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Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of the Flesh

July 24, 2013by dmf 6 Comments

One of the stereotypical notions that are used to characterize the post-modern turn is that “It” championed the end of grand/meta-narratives, but it might be more useful these days to […]

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Pre-Pragmatisms and Robust Empiricisms: James, Whitehead, Wilson

July 23, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Pre-Pragmatisms and Robust Empiricisms: James, Whitehead, Wilson Talk by Steven Meyer, History, Washington University in St. Louis In Wandering Significance (2006), Mark Wilson develops a dissenting “pre-pragmatist,” post-Quinean stance with […]

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Naturalistic and Phenomenological Theories of Health: Distinctions and Connections

July 22, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

from an excellent video collection on naturalism and phenomenology: Professor Fredrik Svenaeus (Södertörn) talk from the Human Experience and Nature, Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference 2011, UWE, Bristol. http://philpapers.org/s/Fredrik%20Svenaeus

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Indirect Unity: Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna on the Human and Non-human

July 21, 2013by dmf 2 Comments

From the Dialogues: Philosophy in Comparative Perspective at McMaster University in April 2013. Michael Berman speaks on “Indirect Unity: Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna on the Human and Non-human” The nature of […]

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Todd May: creative possibilites in a Deleuzian framework

July 20, 2013by dmf 9 Comments

Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of life is characterized by the commitment to there always being more than meets the eye. Whatever there is in the actual world contains a virtuality that […]

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To Cultivate An Active Suicidality: possibility and suicide

July 19, 2013by Arran Crawford 7 Comments

Introduction In this essay I want to discuss suicide from within a Heideggerian perspective as a form of freedom. In doing so I will be making the distinction between suicide-as-event […]

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Baudrillard, Camus, Heidegger

The Posthuman Predicament: Affect, Power and Ethics – Rosi Braidotti

July 18, 2013by dmf 4 Comments

Interesting talk on Spinoza vs Hegel, Zizek is a court-jester but certainly not an “idiot” and while I think he goes too far by projecting a kind of alienation into […]

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Vulnerability, Meaning, and Death: on the aetiology of panic disorder

July 16, 2013by Arran Crawford 4 Comments

“He whose eyes happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy.” –Kierkegaard. This essay will briefly examine the genetic, evolutionary, cognitive (and behavioural), and psychodynamic approaches to the […]

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Notes for Living with the Elements – David Kleinberg-Levin

July 16, 2013by dmf 2 Comments

David Kleinberg-Levin obtained a Ph.D. Columbia University and is Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University. He taught in the Humanities Department at MIT from 1968 until 1972, when he joined the […]

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Gilbert Simondon – ‘The Technical Object as Such’

July 15, 2013by ||| 1 Comment

Originally posted on Politics and Matter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eXDtG74hCL4 The philosopher Gilbert Simondon on ‘The Technical Object as Such’ taken from a longer documentary entitled ‘Entretien sur la mécanologie’ (1970)

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John Caputo on speculative-realism(s), Latour, Zizek, and more.

July 15, 2013by ||| 3 Comments

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhs1J9t2Q8 Apocalyptic Politics: Framing the Present Apocalyptic Nihilism – John D. Caputo, author of Demythologizing Heidegger via http://terenceblake.wordpress.com/

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Michela Wrong – Whistleblower on a crusade for the truth

July 14, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

“Michela’s talk focuses on the unlikely story of how she met John Githongo and ended up writing a book about this man that firmly believes that individual acts can transform […]

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Michel Foucault Beyond Good and Evil

July 13, 2013by dmf 4 Comments

by director David Stewart, 1993 Related articles Michel Foucault’s Political Thought (2013) (foucaultnews.com) Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault 1971 debate: On Human Nature (syntheticzero.net) John Searle on Foucault and the […]

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The World of Indignation

July 12, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Time to Talk is a network of European Houses of Debate. The network was established following the first ever meeting of centres and initiatives from across Europe dedicated to stimulating […]

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Massive Attack vs Adam Curtis – ‘Britain today is a Twee Playpen’

July 11, 2013by ||| 1 Comment

Great find. Two very interesting fellas doing some dark fancy with the video machines. WATCH.

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Bracha Ettinger: Self-fragilize Your Self

July 10, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN? An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists. JAPAN SYNDROME — AMSTERDAM VERSION: brought together anarcho-urbanist, feminist psychoanalytic, cinematic, sci-fi, self-organizing, archival, and electro […]

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