The Vacuousness of “Society” – Marilyn Strathern
“Taking care of a concept: anthropological reflections on the assisted society: The lecture questions both what might be taken for granted in an appeal to society and what it then […]
Tag Archives: episteme
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 […]
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/
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
Isabelle Stengers on Prototypes
” The reliability of …science’s results is relative to experimentally purified, well controlled laboratory experiments. And competent objections are competent only with regards to such controlled environments. Which means that […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
Faith In The Empty Space Of God
The Undeath of God. God is dead: If there is a more paradigmatic, concise, and ecstatic expression of nihilism it has yet to be uttered. God is dead: there are […]
The Catastrophic and the Post-apocalyptic
The present is filled with catastrophe and apocalypticism. A certain phrase has been deployed and redeployed in summarising the condition we find ourselves in: it is easier to imagine the end […]
‘Happiness is statistically abnormal’: happiness after nihilism
Happiness is a kind of madness Look around you. Examine the world you live in. Give it a cursory glance. How could you not conclude that happiness is a delusional […]
Notes for Living with the Elements – David Kleinberg-Levin
David Kleinberg-Levin obtained a Ph.D. Columbia University and is Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University. He taught in the Humanities Department at MIT from 1968 until 1972, when he joined the […]
John Caputo on speculative-realism(s), Latour, Zizek, and more.
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhs1J9t2Q8 Apocalyptic Politics: Framing the Present Apocalyptic Nihilism – John D. Caputo, author of Demythologizing Heidegger via http://terenceblake.wordpress.com/
Michel Foucault Beyond Good and Evil
by director David Stewart, 1993 Related articles Michel Foucault’s Political Thought (2013) (foucaultnews.com) Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault 1971 debate: On Human Nature (syntheticzero.net) John Searle on Foucault and the […]
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