The philosopher David Lewis spun a fantasy of two omniscient gods who know about one world, which might as well be ours. Each knows precisely all there is to know, […]

“Process philosophy is to a great extent about agency. If it is about seeing reality through the processes that constitute it and not through the constituted products, agency is brought […]

“The party that could be on the cusp of winning Iceland’s national elections on Saturday didn’t exist four years ago. Its members are a collection of anarchists, hackers, libertarians and […]

“How is an entity able to copy itself? How do the four DNA base (A, T, C, G) molecules function like ‘symbols’ leading to the entire genetic code? Why can’t […]

We flew right over the dunes, man, nothing but sand, a quarter of a million square miles. A planet of sand. Sand mountains, sand plains and valleys. Sand weather, a […]

friend of the blog AE Robbert @KnowledgEcology starts at around 47mins on ethology as a way into philosophizing ecologically in the context of speculations on cosmopolitical possibilities- you can be […]

audio @ http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/graffiti-paint-and-protest

https://soundcloud.com/shakespeareandcompany/andrew-lees-on-mentored-by-a-madmanthe-william-burroughs-experiment

Mathematics, Vitalism, Genesis

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/10/sof_20161021_2135.mp3 “Cooked in the Big Smoke explores what it’s like to be in the mind of someone who is high on the drug ice in Melbourne’s CBD. The spiralling effects of […]

see also https://terenceblake.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/dark-jung-deleuze-and-zizek/

“‘What’ gives rise to conscious experience? How can we know if consciousness is fundamental, and if can we model it? Why aren’t sticks and stones, & tables and chairs, manifestly […]

“Policy updates, we call them. In effect I review the political and economic situation of the country in question. We have a complex grading system. Prison statistics weighed against the […]

Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
[Image: Tanja Deman] In an earlier post, I connected typography and bookmaking to James Gibson’s theory of affordances, the idea that perception is layered less with the properties…

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04cr9cv.mp3 “J.G.Ballard’s early fiction is full of sonorous surrealism. In this special edition of Between the Ears we go Between Ballard’s Ears. Two new, specially commissioned, binaural adaptations of his […]

“Jonathan Lethem’s latest novel traces the existential crisis of an international backgammon hustler who thinks he’s psychic and who, while plying his trade in Berlin, discovers a rare kind of tumor […]

I read somewhere that if   pedestrians didn’t break traffic laws to cross Times Square whenever and by whatever means possible, the whole city would stop, it would stop. Cars would […]