Ecological Realism as Ontographic Sincerity
Below are some thoughts I had while reflecting on a new paper from Katrina Kolozova available here. This passage in particular set off an avalanche of pondering: In order to circumvent the […]
Tag Archives: perception
The Dis/Appeared | Ian Allen Paul
“The Dis/Appeared” (2018) is an experimental video essay that examines the totalizing imposition of colonial perception in contemporary Palestine. The project theorizes the Israeli state’s establishment of perceptual regimes that […]
Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasure in Posthuman Times
Stacy Alaimo’s Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) is a provocative reflection on environmental ethics, politics, and forms of knowledge. Through a range of examples […]
Lee Braver on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida
Derrida is an extremely rigorous thinker and an extremely thorough reader. He reads texts incredibly closely, more so than anyone else I’ve ever encountered, paying attention to everything on the […]
Adam Robbert on Merleau-Ponty
Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
In my last few posts, I’ve been working my way through the ideas set down by the late great Hubert Dreyfus. While I end up disagreeing…
John Searle on Perception and Intentionality
Below is a video recording of philosopher and professor John Searle delivering a lecture on ‘Perception and Intentionality’ at the University of Cologne upon accepting Albertus Magnus Professorship in 2013: […]
Merleau-Ponty & Wittgenstein on Understanding “Other Others”
Katherine Morris (Professor at Mansfield College, Oxford) speaking at Mind & Society 2.0.
Why there is no mind/body problem
Joe Cruz is a professor of philosophy at Williams College. He specializes in the philosophy of the mind and the theory of knowledge. His articles have appeared in Mind and […]
Hubert Dreyfus on Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
Hubert Dreyfus’ 31 lectures on Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
Adam Robbert on Skills of Perception
Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
I’ve been suggesting that the basic constituents of experience are neither ideas nor representations but activities of thought capable of generating ideas and representations. On…
Kenneth Liberman on Merleau-Ponty’s “The Intertwining” and “The Chiasm”
Merleau-Ponty is an incredible thinker and phenomenologist (and would-be ontographer). Below Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Oregon Kenneth Liberman drops some knowledge on some of M-P’s best conceptual adventures […]
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 […]
parabiosis: neurolibidinal induction complex
Prediction Machines – Andy Clark on Dan Dennett
Dan’s reply
Andy Clark & David Chalmers – The Extended Mind (pdf)
“Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what […]
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 […]
Jane Bennett on Anxiety, Whitman, Sympathy
So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…
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, […]
Alva Noë: See Me if You Can!
New ways of thinking about the nature of visual consciousness allow us to reconsider art and its place in our lives. In this talk, Alva Noë, a leading figure in […]
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 […]
