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Black Hole Sun: On the Materialist Sublime

April 10, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From Thomas Nail: The first image of black hole has just been released today. This is a profound and important aesthetic moment from a new materialist perspective. The image is […]

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October WYRDPATCH WORKSHOP

October 22, 2018by ||| 1 Comment

The folks at Diffractions Collective in Prague, in collaboration with a few other groups, are hosting a second Wyrd/Patchworkshop on October 26, 2018, at 5:30pm in the U.K (9:30am Mountain […]

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Ireland, James

Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance (Paul Rabinow)

October 3, 2017by dmf 4 Comments

here be a classic pdf up for grabs: Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance, Paul Rabinow Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director […]

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Rabinow

Niki de Saint Phalle: The Art of Corporeal Vulnerability

April 16, 2017by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Niki de Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, performance artist, painter, poster maker, writer, film-maker and feminist. A producer of voluptuous sculptures of female bodies that alternate between Goddess worship […]

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The Opportunity of Nihilism

March 16, 2017by ||| 29 Comments

“Nihilism stands like an extreme that cannot be gotten beyond, and yet it is the only true path of going beyond; it is the principle of a new beginning.” – […]

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The Visible and the Invisible (pdf)

March 10, 2017by ||| 3 Comments

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. […]

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Merleau-Ponty

The Question of Naturalistic Ethics: Sam Harris on Science and Morality

November 15, 2015by ||| 6 Comments

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 […]

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Guattari’s Eco-Logic

May 29, 2015by ||| 3 Comments

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 […]

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parabiosis: neurolibidinal induction complex

May 11, 2015by dmf Leave a comment
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the ecological a priori?

January 22, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

[][[ 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 […]

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Deleuze, Foucault

Katerina Kolozova on The Real in Contemporary Philosophy

January 22, 2015by ||| 8 Comments

The Real in Contemporary Philosophy Katerina Kolozova What Baudrillard called the perfect crime has become the malaise of the global(ized) intellectual of the beginning of the 21’st century. The “perfect […]

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Kolozova

Deleuze’s Stoicism

January 8, 2015by dmf 5 Comments

“How much we have yet to learn from Stoicism …”  ~ Deleuze In this 2006 paper John Sellars argues that Deleuze’s relationship with Stoicism goes far beyond his explicit comments on […]

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Deleuze

Elizabeth Grosz on the appeal of Stoicism

January 7, 2015by Arran Crawford 4 Comments

From “Ontogenesis and the Ethics of Becoming“: KY: In terms of the Stoics, how might their approach to “dying well” offer us some resources for thinking amidst our current scene […]

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Camus, Grosz, Nietzsche

J. J. Gibson – A Theory of Affordances (pdf)

January 7, 2015by dmf 2 Comments

Psychologist James J. Gibson originally introduced the term “affordance” in his 1977 article ‘The Theory of Affordances’, which he subsequently elaborated his book The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception in […]

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Gibson

On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene

January 7, 2015by ||| 11 Comments

On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene Adrian Ivakhiv Ontology is in; epistemology is out. The question is no longer how we know what we know, but […]

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Tim Morton talking prototypes

January 5, 2015by dmf Leave a comment

Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3) – Lithuania, etc, etc: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/philosophy-design-engineering-zooetics.html

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life beyond the end of pretending?

January 5, 2015by dmf 3 Comments

Seminar introducing John Foster’s new book ‘After Sustainability’ with discussion by Prof Jonathan Wolff, Philosophy, UCL, and Prof Albert Weale, Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL Summary: Dangerous climate change […]

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Jane Bennett on Anxiety, Whitman, Sympathy‏

January 4, 2015by dmf 4 Comments

So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…

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Bennett

Speculative Futures: Shaviro, Galloway & Thacker

November 30, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“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 […]

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Shaviro, Thacker

Madness and the Symbolic Order?

October 14, 2014by ||| 4 Comments

I disagree with Žižek on the radical distinctness of human subjectivity. I think sapience is an elaborated capacity of sentience, which is itself a capacity emerging from organic dispositionality viz. […]

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