One of the major points of contention concerning unconditional accelerationism (henceforth U/ACC) is a perceived slight or rejection of any ‘positive’ form of political activity or organizing. The complaint can […]
Below is a video recording of philosopher and professor John Searle delivering a lecture on ‘Perception and Intentionality’ at the University of Cologne upon accepting Albertus Magnus Professorship in 2013: […]
Katherine Morris (Professor at Mansfield College, Oxford) speaking at Mind & Society 2.0.
“Can ecology (as a complex system of words, sounds, deeds, affects, narratives, propensities) really ever fully merge into the allegedly totalizing system of capitalism? Here I follow Deleuze and Guattari’s […]
Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Derrida’s “Différance” and “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” We begin tonight where many think we…
Originally posted on Becoming Integral: Notes on Planetary Coexistence:
I often find myself thinking with Alfred North Whitehead. I recall that today is his birthday, Feburary 15 (1861-1947). I don’t…
Originally posted on Fractal Ontology:
Derrida: “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” From Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978):…
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism (PDF) by Claire Colebrook Necessary reading for our purposes here: “Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism: this awful portmanteau word, in all its ungainly confusion, captures something crucial about the present. In the essay […]
(worldmap: command and control) Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist […]
Joe Cruz is a professor of philosophy at Williams College. He specializes in the philosophy of the mind and the theory of knowledge. His articles have appeared in Mind and […]
“Nihilism stands like an extreme that cannot be gotten beyond, and yet it is the only true path of going beyond; it is the principle of a new beginning.” – […]
Hubert Dreyfus’ 31 lectures on Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
SONIC ACTS ACADEMY 28 February 2016 – Amsterdam, the Netherlands A talk and Q&A session by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke about The 3D Additivist Manifesto + The 3D Additivist […]
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
This is the second of a three-part series on ‘what we talked about at ISA’. The first part on technology in International Relations…
In his fantastic book The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, Paul N. Edwards forwards a quasi-literary reading of the way power and subjectivity […]
Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
I’ve been suggesting that the basic constituents of experience are neither ideas nor representations but activities of thought capable of generating ideas and representations. On…
Merleau-Ponty is an incredible thinker and phenomenologist (and would-be ontographer). Below Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Oregon Kenneth Liberman drops some knowledge on some of M-P’s best conceptual adventures […]
Originally posted on environmental critique:
An Initial Exploration by Jeff VanderMeer ? ? 1. Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects, which sets out a series of thoughts about “dark ecologies,” has become central to…
The Visible and the Invisible, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty The Visible and the Invisible (1964) contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. […]
Steven Shaviro on Ray Brassier on Nick Land: Ray Brassier and Nick Land “Against this widely-shared idea of desire’s infinitude, what I am calling neo-aestheticism understands desire as being finite, […]
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