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Monthly Archives: March 2017

Unconditional Acceleration and the Question of Praxis: Some Preliminary Thoughts

March 28, 2017by edmundberger 19 Comments

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 […]

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John Searle on Perception and Intentionality

March 28, 2017by ||| 2 Comments

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: […]

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Searle

Merleau-Ponty & Wittgenstein on Understanding “Other Others”

March 27, 2017by dmf Leave a comment

Katherine Morris (Professor at Mansfield College, Oxford) speaking at Mind & Society 2.0.

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Merleau-Ponty, Morris, Wittgenstein

Vibrant Matter, Zero Landscape: Bennett vs. Zizek

March 26, 2017by dmf 1 Comment

“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 […]

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Bennett, Zizek

Gratton lecture on “Différance” and “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”

March 24, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

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…

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Derrida

The 21st Century Whitehead Will Be Deleuzian

March 24, 2017by ||| 1 Comment

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…

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Deleuze, Whitehead

Notes on Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play in the Human Sciences”

March 24, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

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):…

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Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism

March 24, 2017by dmf 3 Comments

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 […]

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Barad, Colebrook, Deleuze

Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)

March 23, 2017by edmundberger 23 Comments

(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 […]

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Bateson, Debord, Guattari, Klein, Land, Pickering, Serres, Uncategorized

Why there is no mind/body problem

March 22, 2017by ||| 7 Comments

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 […]

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The Opportunity of Nihilism

March 16, 2017by ||| 29 Comments

“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.” – […]

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Hubert Dreyfus on Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception

March 15, 2017by ||| 1 Comment

Hubert Dreyfus’ 31 lectures on Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception

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Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty

#Additivism: An Encounter with The Fluid Outside

March 14, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Allahyari, Rourke

Nick Srnicek on Crises and Cognitive Mapping

March 13, 2017by ||| 3 Comments

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…

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Srnicek

Into the Mystic: Capitalism and the Structuralization of Spirituality

March 13, 2017by edmundberger 19 Comments

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 […]

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Berger

Adam Robbert on Skills of Perception

March 13, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

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…

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Fichte, Kant, Thompson

Kenneth Liberman on Merleau-Ponty’s “The Intertwining” and “The Chiasm”

March 12, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Husserl, Merleau-Ponty

Hauntings in the Anthropocene – Jeff VanderMeer

March 12, 2017by ||| 12 Comments

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…

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Morton, VanderMeer

The Visible and the Invisible (pdf)

March 10, 2017by ||| 3 Comments

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. […]

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Merleau-Ponty

Steven Shaviro on Brassier and Land

March 10, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

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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Brassier, Land, Shaviro

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