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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of the Flesh
One of the stereotypical notions that are used to characterize the post-modern turn is that “It” championed the end of grand/meta-narratives, but it might be more useful these days to […]
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 […]
Bracha Ettinger: Self-fragilize Your Self
WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN? An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists. JAPAN SYNDROME — AMSTERDAM VERSION: brought together anarcho-urbanist, feminist psychoanalytic, cinematic, sci-fi, self-organizing, archival, and electro […]
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 […]
Journeys Into the Zone of Sentience
Jan Verwoert is a Berlin based, internationally renowned art critic and sometimes curator. He is a member of the advisory board of the Munich Kunstverein and has been a guest […]
Andy Clark on Perceiving as Predicting
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program […]
Anthropology, Architecture, Archaeology, Art
In the video below preeminent anthropologist and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen Tim Ingold tries to bring the “4 A’s” [anthropology, architecture, archaeology, and art] together, […]
Public Feelings
Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant Just as feminism has sought to identify the ways in which the personal and the political are linked, the study of “public feelings” draws […]
Wolfgang Schirmacher – Art(ificial) Perception: Nietzsche and Culture after Nihilism
Perceiving as the activity of this culture after nihilism is artificial and perceives in works only what we — the artificial beings by nature — value. Nietzsche asks himself the […]
Trevor Pinch – Cooking up Science: Tacit Knowledge, Science Experiments and Food Recipes
Trevor Pinch is a professor of sociology and STS at Cornell U. His main research centers on three areas (1) the sociology of technology and how users engage with technology, […]
Timothy Clark – Derangements of Scale
“When we observe the environment, we necessarily do so only on a limited range of scales; therefore our perception of events provides us with only a low-dimensional slice through a […]
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