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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
“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, […]
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/
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 […]
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 […]
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 (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, 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, […]
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