On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings, William James
On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings, William James in the linked talk James was writing before all of the quite legitimate concerns of the “linguistic” turn but his larger […]
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Worlding with the Body
Worlding with the Body link above to anthropod-cast on a panel of speakers as outlined @ http://mohacska.org/2013/10/03/worlding-with-the-body/ At the November 2013 American Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago the session entitled “Worlding […]
Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism?
Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism? Jodi Dean points us to: http://libcom.org/blog/whos-afraid-ruins-18022014 To speak of disaster communism is not to express a preference for a post-apocalyptic style. It is a […]
the in-itself, together
To exercise one’s capacities to their fullest extent is to take pleasure in one’s own existence, and with sociable creatures, such pleasures are proportionally magnified when performed in company… It […]
(Free) Essays on Extinction by Claire Colebrook
(Free) Essays on Extinction by Claire Colebrook Download the books by clicking on the covers below.Both books will be available to purchase in print in the near future. Death of […]
Ontology as Embodied Cognitive Action?
In the comment section of a previous post I made the following claim: I’m a little worried about making a strong distinction between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’. Knowing and communicating are also […]
Latour’s ‘What Is the Recommended Dose of Ontological Pluralism for a Safe Anthropological Diplomacy?’
In light of the recent ‘realism v. pluralism’ debates… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U1FbAMEpzQ http://anthem-group.net/2014/01/28/2013-gad-distinguished-lecture-bruno-latour/
Isabelle Stengers – The Cosmopolitical Proposal (pdf)
From Isabelle Stengers’ ‘The Cosmopolitical Proposal’ (pdf): How can I present a proposal intended not to say what is, or what ought to be, but to provoke thought; one that […]
Naturalism’s Nihilistic Tendencies, Olivier Surel
What is a Minor Literature? Deleuze&Guattari
pdf get it while it lasts… ‘What is a Minor Literature?‘,by Deleuze & Guattari Deleuze and Guattari outline the three characterizing elements of a ‘minor literature’: 1) the deterritorializations of a […]
Dynamical Systems & the Extended Mind, Richard Menary
Richard Menary is a research fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sidney, Australia. Menary is the editor of The Extended Mind (2010), and leader in […]
Judith Butler on ‘Precarious Life: The Obligations of Proximity’ (1/7)
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has had a significant influence on the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, philosophy, […]
Thomas Fuchs: “Embodiment and psychopathology”
http://vimeo.com/28736926 First came across Fuchs during nursing research into schizophrenia as a disorder of embodiment. People often ask what alternatives there might be to contemporary psychiatry and psychotherapy, and […]
For An Affective Anarchism
Joseph Kay’s call for an affective politics is one I agree with and have made in other (non-anarchist) circles. For me part of the problem of leaving affect out of the picture […]
The Anthropocene and the Apocalypse: from the ecological to the ecologistical
The question of ecological ethics and politics has been raised once again. I occasionally fear that our images of ecology and politics remain stills rather than cinematic motion pictures. This […]
The Persistence of Belief
The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from […]
Generation Todestrieb
My entire generation is traumatised by something that hasn’t happened yet. Shaking and sleeplessness, autoimmolatory alcoholism, fits of violent rage and sobbing breakdowns, weeks of self-imposed seclusion, an epidemic of […]
Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of the Flesh
One of the stereotypical notions that are used to characterize the post-modern turn is that “It” championed the end of grand/meta-narratives, but it might be more useful these days to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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