“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 […]
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. […]
From RADIO LAB: A conversation with Eugene Thacker on the truth, beauty and post-goodness of pessimism (nihilism?) Eugene Thacker is an author and associate professor at The New School in […]
& Is radical-academic an oxymoron?
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 […]
This podcast features Dr Des Fitzgerald and Dr Felicity Callard on ‘Experimental Entanglements: Re-thinking the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences’. It was recorded at a Hearing the Voice […]
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 […]
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 […]
An Interview with William E. Connolly William E. Connolly is a political theorist known for his work on democracy and pluralism and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins […]
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 […]
To exercise one’s capacities to their fullest extent is to take pleasure in one’s own existence, and with sociable creatures, such pleasures are proportionally magnified when performed in company… It […]
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 […]
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 […]
The question of ecological ethics and politics has been raised once again. I occasionally fear that our images of ecology and politics remain stills rather than cinematic motion pictures. This […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introduction In this essay I want to discuss suicide from within a Heideggerian perspective as a form of freedom. In doing so I will be making the distinction between suicide-as-event […]
Interesting talk on Spinoza vs Hegel, Zizek is a court-jester but certainly not an “idiot” and while I think he goes too far by projecting a kind of alienation into […]
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 […]
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 […]
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