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 […]
Tag Archives: ontography
Katerina Kolozova on The Real in Contemporary Philosophy
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 […]
Prediction Machines – Andy Clark on Dan Dennett
Dan’s reply
J. J. Gibson – A Theory of Affordances (pdf)
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 […]
On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene
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 […]
Tim Morton talking prototypes
Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3) – Lithuania, etc, etc: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/philosophy-design-engineering-zooetics.html
Jane Bennett on Anxiety, Whitman, Sympathy
So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…
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 […]
Machinism
Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
In Onto-Cartography I propose a machine-oriented ontology. “Machine” is a synonym for “entity”, “thing”, “object”, or “being”. Machine-oriented ontology– or more simply, “machinism” –is the…
The Anarchy of Objects 1: Objects and Regimes of Attraction
Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
I’ll be teaching the following course at The New Centre for Research & Practice starting this October. This will be followed by a course of…
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 […]
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 Paul Rabinow is Professor […]
Tim Ingold’s Being Alive: Essays on Movement (pdf)
Tim Ingold’s Being Alive: Essays on Movement (pdf) Tim Ingold is a British anthropologist, and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His interests are wide ranging: environmental perception, […]
Ben Woodard on Pessimism and Pragmatism
Ben Woodard at the leading edge of the post-nihilst turn: “[P]essimism can provide a certain form of useful clarity (not unlike Justine’s comportment in von Trier’s Melancholia). We must pass through […]
Unknowing and the Anosognosia of Everyday Life
Excepts From Interviews with David Dunning and V.S. Ramachandran Many have argued that human rationality grants us special access to the depths of psychological and metaphysical realities. Current advances in […]
Vibrant Matter & the Political Economy of Life
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCaku4N0SM http://www.thomaslemkeweb.de/biografie-engl.htm
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 […]
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