Author Archives: dmf
Prediction Machines – Andy Clark on Dan Dennett
Dan’s reply
Andy Clark & David Chalmers – The Extended Mind (pdf)
“Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what […]
Deleuze’s Stoicism
“How much we have yet to learn from Stoicism …” ~ Deleuze In this 2006 paper John Sellars argues that Deleuze’s relationship with Stoicism goes far beyond his explicit comments on […]
J. J. Gibson – A Theory of Affordances (pdf)
Psychologist James J. Gibson originally introduced the term “affordance” in his 1977 article ‘The Theory of Affordances’, which he subsequently elaborated his book The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception in […]
Pete Wolfendale: Temporality&Modality in Deleuze
birth of catastrophic environmentalism
Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
An excellent book, and great talk:
Radical Imagination vs Austerity
http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2015.01.06_radical_imagination.mp3 “According to Alex Khasnabish, we’re in the midst of a double crisis, one hammering the general population and the other affecting the work of radical activists. Khasnabish believes that […]
Andrew Abbott’s The Thick Present
Locality and Its Implications I’ve yet to be convinced that we need anything more than an understanding of habit-uation (which of course includes being embodied/situated) to explain social ordering.
APA 2014-4: Emergence and complex systems
Architect of CIA’s Torture Program
Cooperative Communities of Resistance? Elke Krasny
Unplanned History: Communities of Resisitance. The title of this presentation proposes a paradox as its starting point: unplanned history. History eludes planning, since it has already happened. Yet the writing […]
Tim Morton talking prototypes
Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3) – Lithuania, etc, etc: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/philosophy-design-engineering-zooetics.html
Tissus d’ombres (detail) Stéphanie Jacques
life beyond the end of pretending?
Seminar introducing John Foster’s new book ‘After Sustainability’ with discussion by Prof Jonathan Wolff, Philosophy, UCL, and Prof Albert Weale, Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL Summary: Dangerous climate change […]
In the House of the Hangman 1904 | Zeitgeist Spam
Originally posted on word pond:
http://www.johnbr.com/zeitgeist_spam/2015/01/in-the-house-of-the-hangman-1904.html
Jane Bennett on Anxiety, Whitman, Sympathy
So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…
Karen Barad’s Re-membering the Future
Not sure why Barad became trendy in a way that Andy Pickering hasn’t, any thoughts out there?
michel houellebecq on soumission
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/02/scare-tactics-michel-houellebecq-on-his-new-book/ “No. My book describes the destruction of the philosophy handed down by the Enlightenment, which no longer makes sense to anyone, or to very few people. Catholicism, by contrast, […]
synthetic zerØ 
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