Monthly Archives: November 2014
FROM RELATIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY TO PLURALIST ONTOLOGY: The pluralist realism of Paul Feyerabend and Bruno Latour
Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
I have just completed a paper on Feyerabend and Latour’s realist pluralism. This synthesises and extends my contributions to the Pluralism Wars and hopefully puts…
Žižek -The Need to Censor Our Dreams
Critchley does Bowie
Laruelle’s Deconstruction & Non-philosophy
Click to access chiasma-laruelle-hauck.pdf
Raqib Shaw’s Garden of Earthly Delights III
Health Internationalism? Theodore Brown
http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2014.11.17_health_radicals.mp3 “According to Theodore Brown, proletarian internationalism converged with social medicine in the early twentieth century; what emerged, he asserts, was a “health internationalism” rooted in the belief that factors […]
Tim Ingold: On Human Correspondence
Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
this sort of sermon could lead to endless debates over whether things/relations are really blobs or lines, I’m more interested in what using such figures of speech allows us to […]
nihilism unpacked
Massimo Pigliucci and Julia Galef on the Rationally Speaking podcast discuss the various epistemological, ontological, mereological and ethical strains of nihilism. The conversation is of an introductory nature but has value in the range that […]
sailing on
Anthropocene field-notes by Dyer & Wakefield
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/11/field-notes/notes-from-the-anthropocene-1 “As Lauren Berlant writes, “the present is perceived, first, affectively: the present is what makes itself present to us before it becomes anything else” (Cruel Optimism, 4). This series […]
Cops & Spooks; Special Branch & Pig City
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/11/hht_20141116.mp3 “In Australia, in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, more than sixty pieces of legislation have been passed into law, that significantly strengthen the […]
Relative realities, theoretical sensitivities
http://vimeo.com/108273539 Annemarie Mol’s take on empirical philosophy: Science studies brought the sciences down to earth. Instead of accepting the existence of ‘universals’, it explored how facts relate to local practices […]
Guy Debord: A Philosophy of Time
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The revolutionary project of a classless society, of an all-embracing historical life, implies the withering away of the social…
hatebeak birdseeds of vengeance
death-metal band fronted by a parrot, what’s not to love?
Eaarth Systems Thresholds
See no need to worry folks the engineers are here to save the day…
Being Mortal – Will Self & Atul Gawande
Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth‘ lecture and the discussion following it, at Nottingham Contemporary gallery last night. The introduction is by Emma Moore,…
La jetée by Chris Marker
Policing and Protesting the G20
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/11/bia_20141112_2005.mp3 “Security has been conspicuously ramped up in Brisbane ahead of the G20 leader’s summit. Police have been granted new powers. Public protests will be tightly regulated. Is it necessary […]
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