Rojava: patchworking from the Real
The following builds on points made by Michael in “Global Wyrding and Deeply Adaptive Patchworking“: As long as humans have been gathering and cooperating in relatively stable sedentary complexes, issues […]
Tag Archives: emergence
Andrew Pickering – Engaging Emergence: From Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movement
It’s come to my attention that this may have gotten buried in the powers of the horde here and that would be unfortunate as I think it is central to […]
Schizoanalysis as Anthro-Ecology
WILD ECOLOGIES – Featured Post #3: Edmund Berger with an in-depth analysis of Guattari’s ‘ecosophy’ and possible points of connection, overlap and divergence from anarchist thought. How does one begin to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Madness and the Symbolic Order?
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. […]
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 […]
Roden on the Posthuman & the Transhuman
An excellent and compact outline of some differences between posthumanism and transhumanism from David Roden here: Posthumanists may, but need not, claim that humans are becoming more intertwined with technology. They […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rosenthal on Ontology, Pluralism and Pragmatism
Rosenthal, Sandra B. (2005) ‘The Ontological Grounding of Diversity: A Pragmatic Overview’ in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: The uprootedness of experience from its ontological embeddedness in a natural world […]
Being, Background, Pluripolitics
“We start from the One, rather than arriving at it. We start from the One, which is to say that if we go anywhere, it will be toward the World, […]
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/
Nature Poetics and Ecological Praxis
With regards to my last post Jeremy at Struggles Forever has provided an important reminder: [T]he conception of Nature as a container, in my opinion, conveys the wrong message. Containers delimit and […]
Ethics and Politics in the Anthropocene?
Much has been made lately of the claim that we have entered a new geologic epoch provocatively termed the ‘Anthropocene’. The gist of the claim is that humans have intervened […]
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 […]
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 […]
Infrastructure, Infra-politics
Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]
