Ethics and Politics in the Anthropocene?
Much has been made lately of the claim that we have entered a new geologic epoch provocatively termed the ‘Anthropocene’. The gist of the claim is that humans have intervened […]
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Gilbert Simondon – ‘The Technical Object as Such’
Originally posted on Politics and Matter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eXDtG74hCL4 The philosopher Gilbert Simondon on ‘The Technical Object as Such’ taken from a longer documentary entitled ‘Entretien sur la mécanologie’ (1970)
John Caputo on speculative-realism(s), Latour, Zizek, and more.
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhs1J9t2Q8 Apocalyptic Politics: Framing the Present Apocalyptic Nihilism – John D. Caputo, author of Demythologizing Heidegger via http://terenceblake.wordpress.com/
Massive Attack vs Adam Curtis – ‘Britain today is a Twee Playpen’
Great find. Two very interesting fellas doing some dark fancy with the video machines. WATCH.
Infrastructure, Infra-politics
Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]
Anthropology, Architecture, Archaeology, Art
In the video below preeminent anthropologist and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen Tim Ingold tries to bring the “4 A’s” [anthropology, architecture, archaeology, and art] together, […]
Reason, Genealogy and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiM7IwZWW5g Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, argues that genealogies (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault) present the revenge of naturalism on rationalism. Hegel teaches…
The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001)
It is through action and interaction within practices that mind, rationality and knowledge are constituted and social life is organized, reproduced and transformed. During the past two decades, practice theory […]
Being in the World
“Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, […]
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness?
Alain de Botton is a Swiss/British writer, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur, living in the United Kingdom. In the following video series, Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness de Botton features […]
Heidegger and the Ecology of Knowing
Levi Bryant has a interesting post up on Heidegger (here), wherein he moves from a damn fine summary of ‘equipmentality’ to a discussion of cognitive blindness (although without reference to […]
Richard Sennett – The Stupefying Smart City
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtrxAN2RnY Sennett brings his earlier work on “brutal simplifiers” into his recent work on open cities and architectures of co-operations in this short but pithy call…
Crash (1996)
“Civilized life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions […]
Ontological Commitments
The new issue of Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism is out and it looks fantastic. The question this issue seems to be asking is ‘what is speculative realism, if it is […]
Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies
Originally posted on Continental Drift:
or, the Pathic Core at the Heart of Cybernetics [This text was developed through a large number of improvised presentations. Thanks to all who listened…
Interview with Paul Rabinow
“I have said in some of the earlier books that anthropology to me is anthropos + logos or logoi, so if you are interested in anthropos which in Greek is […]
holding forth the image
. “The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false […]
On the Surface of a Dust Particle
Originally posted on dpr-barcelona:
“Dear Radioactive Friends, today I have done a terrible thing for a theoretical physicist, that is, to introduce a new particle that nobody will ever be…
Species-Being and Media Machines
AUDIO: Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines/Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology “The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and […]
Bernard Stiegler – From Neuropower to Noopolitics
Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher at Goldsmiths, University of London and at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne. In addition, he is Director of the Institut de recherche et […]
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