seduction of a cyborg
Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1994.
Tag Archives: affect
Posthumanist Performativity and How Matter Comes to Matter
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter by Karen Barad “Where did we ever get the strange idea that nature—as opposed to culture—is ahistorical and timeless? We […]
Adam Kotsko on Social Constructs
Without the notion of ‘social constructs’ as “real” affective assemblages in the world our cognitive navigational mappings will remain just so many unreflexive reactions to banal perceptions of mere objects. […]
The Visible and the Invisible (pdf)
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. […]
The Question of Naturalistic Ethics: Sam Harris on Science and Morality
Below Sam Harris outlines and then discusses with Richard Dawkins his argument against Hume’s erroneous (IMO) notion that we cannot derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’ – what philosopher’s call the “naturalistic […]
Afrika speaks with rhythm
AfriKa speaks: Badilisha Poetry X-Change is both an online audio archive and Pan-African poetry show delivered in radio format. Now the largest online collective of African poets on the planet, […]
Taksim Commune: Gezi Park And The Uprising In Turkey
from brandon jourdan This short documentary is a rare behind-the-scenes look at Summer 2013 Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, Turkey. In late May 2013, political unrest swept across Turkey. In […]
Guattari’s Eco-Logic
WILD ECOLOGIES – Featured post #2: Here Bill Rose summarizes and interprets Guattari’s ‘ecosophy’ as it is laid out in the book and elsewhere, on the way to a quasi-anarchic […]
parabiosis: neurolibidinal induction complex
the ecological a priori?
[][[ CROSS-POSTED from Archive Fire ]][] Adam Robbert bringing the Foucault and Deleuze eco-style: For Foucault, then, the nonhuman impresses itself onto anthropic space through the production of laws and […]
Prediction Machines – Andy Clark on Dan Dennett
Dan’s reply
Tim Morton talking prototypes
Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3) – Lithuania, etc, etc: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/philosophy-design-engineering-zooetics.html
Jane Bennett on Anxiety, Whitman, Sympathy
So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…
Speculative Futures: Shaviro, Galloway & Thacker
“It’s a speculative accelerated realist bootleg throwdown! This episode features STEVEN SHAVIRO and ALEXANDER GALLOWAY discussing their recently published books THE UNIVERSE OF THINGS: ON SPECULATIVE REALISM and LARUELLE: AGAINST […]
Why Should We Read Spinoza?
by Susan James Published on 8 Nov 2014 During the twentieth century, Spinoza was allotted a minor role in Anglophone histories of philosophy. Dwarfed by Descartes, Hobbes, Locke and Leibniz, […]
Bodily Natures – An Interview with Stacy Alaimo
From New Books in Critical Theory: In her book, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010), Stacy Alaimo approaches the concepts of “science, environment, and self” in an […]
We Have Never Been Queer, Preciado & Halberstam
& Is radical-academic an oxymoron?
On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology – Stanimir Panayotov
https://www.academia.edu/1255122/On_Guattaris_Planetary_Psychopathology Planetary psychopathology is a term used by Guattari in an Italian-published text from the early80s (Guatari 1984). Psychopathology is the science that studies the mental disorders of human beings. […]
Process Ontology of Disaster Capitalism? Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti is a philosopher and feminist theoretician who holds Italian and Australian citizenship – born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received degrees from the Australian […]
Anti-depressive Politics
A new Prometheus need not take the form of the ‘Modern Prince’, the party, if the latter is regarded as a commanding height and centre supervenient on any other council, […]
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