Todd May: creative possibilites in a Deleuzian framework
Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of life is characterized by the commitment to there always being more than meets the eye. Whatever there is in the actual world contains a virtuality that […]
To Cultivate An Active Suicidality: possibility and suicide
Introduction In this essay I want to discuss suicide from within a Heideggerian perspective as a form of freedom. In doing so I will be making the distinction between suicide-as-event […]
The Posthuman Predicament: Affect, Power and Ethics – Rosi Braidotti
Interesting talk on Spinoza vs Hegel, Zizek is a court-jester but certainly not an “idiot” and while I think he goes too far by projecting a kind of alienation into […]
Vulnerability, Meaning, and Death: on the aetiology of panic disorder
“He whose eyes happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy.” –Kierkegaard. This essay will briefly examine the genetic, evolutionary, cognitive (and behavioural), and psychodynamic approaches to the […]
Notes for Living with the Elements – David Kleinberg-Levin
David Kleinberg-Levin obtained a Ph.D. Columbia University and is Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University. He taught in the Humanities Department at MIT from 1968 until 1972, when he joined the […]
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/
Michela Wrong – Whistleblower on a crusade for the truth
“Michela’s talk focuses on the unlikely story of how she met John Githongo and ended up writing a book about this man that firmly believes that individual acts can transform […]
Michel Foucault Beyond Good and Evil
by director David Stewart, 1993 Related articles Michel Foucault’s Political Thought (2013) (foucaultnews.com) Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault 1971 debate: On Human Nature (syntheticzero.net) John Searle on Foucault and the […]
The World of Indignation
Time to Talk is a network of European Houses of Debate. The network was established following the first ever meeting of centres and initiatives from across Europe dedicated to stimulating […]
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.
Bracha Ettinger: Self-fragilize Your Self
WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN? An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists. JAPAN SYNDROME — AMSTERDAM VERSION: brought together anarcho-urbanist, feminist psychoanalytic, cinematic, sci-fi, self-organizing, archival, and electro […]
Ray Brassier – Nominalism, Naturalism and Materialism
Ray Brassier (b.1965) is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at […]
Adi Efal: Ravaisson’s ‘Habitude’ and the Past Reality
Part of the Speculative Art Histories International Research Symposium organized by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and the Centre for Art and Philosophy of Erasmus University Rotterdam on […]
Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Nets & Meshworks
Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks The fourth annual Nietzsche Workshop @ Western, April 13 2013 in NYC, hosted by the CTM (Center for Transformative Media) at Parsons: The New School for […]
Allen Ginsberg reads America
Journeys Into the Zone of Sentience
Jan Verwoert is a Berlin based, internationally renowned art critic and sometimes curator. He is a member of the advisory board of the Munich Kunstverein and has been a guest […]
Art Is A Memory
Siri Hustvedt is one of our leading essayists here in the US on art appreciation and here she shares her reflections on paying attention, experiencing, and memorializing, does her take […]
Alva Noe on “Concepts and Practical Knowledge”
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsIysQ_vQpY 9th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication “Perception and Concepts” see also: http://newbooksinphilosophy.com/2012/12/14/alva-noe-varieties-of-presence-harvard-up-2012/
Andy Clark on Perceiving as Predicting
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program […]
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