Posthumanism for the Wounded, the Unknowing & the Dependent
Abstract: ‘We don’t live in a post-facts world, nor should we want to. Human beings need to be recognised, in their states of precarity and oppression, as being human before […]
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Adapted to a Symbolic Niche?
Terrence William Deacon (born 1950) is an American Neuroanthropologist (Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, Harvard University 1984). He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and […]
The Poememenon: Form as Occult Technology | Amy Ireland
“Hyperstition is the real truth of philosophy—if not the basic, horrific form of reality itself” – Amy Ireland The folks at Urbanomic regularly put out compelling essays that are both timely and […]
Adam Kotsko on Social Constructs
Without the notion of ‘social constructs’ as “real” affective assemblages in the world our cognitive navigational mappings will remain just so many unreflexive reactions to banal perceptions of mere objects. […]
‘Crash Space’, by R.S. Bakker (pdf)
Postscript Reverse engineering brains is a prelude to engineering brains, plain and simple. Since we are our brains, and since we all want to be better than what we […]
Gratton lecture on “Différance” and “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”
Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Derrida’s “Différance” and “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” We begin tonight where many think we…
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