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 […]
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, 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. […]
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: 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
[][[ 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 […]
Dan’s reply
Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3) – Lithuania, etc, etc: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/philosophy-design-engineering-zooetics.html
So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…
“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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
& Is radical-academic an oxymoron?
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
In Mark Fisher’s talk he repeated the recent intervention made by the Institute for Precarious Consciousness where it states that we have moved from a world of boredom to one […]
