Introducing Ecobehavioral Design
Introducing Ecobehavioral Design by Mark James, PhD(c) Behavior change can be bewilderingly difficult to achieve, and just trying can quickly become the work of the weary. However, I submit, much […]
Tag Archives: sentience
“Is reality itself.. impenetrable?” – Afterthoughts on Žižek/Harman debate
SCI-Arc invites you to take a closer look at a debate between two philosophers with a particular influence on art and culture. What about this event should interest an artist, […]
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 […]
Babette Babich | Life is a Test: On Ivan Illich
Below American philosopher Babette Babich talks about Ivan Illich’s political philosophy of being human. Babich is known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for […]
Weaponized Nihil
Two invigorating quotes from the diagnostician of the dark circus S.C Hickman: “[I]in our age of nihilism, there is the aesthetic as Nietzsche would advocate: the ability to stylize our […]
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 […]
Andy Clark on Emotions, Cognition and the Predictive Mind
Andy Clark is a professor of philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. “To unravel the workings of these embodied, embedded, and sometimes […]
The A.I Cargo Cult | Kevin Kelly
The Myth of a Superhuman A.I By Kevin Kelly I’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our […]
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. […]
Lemurian Time Sorcery: Ccru and the Reality Studio
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The creation of the Universe is attributed to the five-stage action taken by the Absolute One to defend itself…
‘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 […]
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: […]
parabiosis: neurolibidinal induction complex
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 […]
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 […]
Elizabeth Grosz on the appeal of Stoicism
From “Ontogenesis and the Ethics of Becoming“: KY: In terms of the Stoics, how might their approach to “dying well” offer us some resources for thinking amidst our current scene […]
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 […]
life beyond the end of pretending?
Seminar introducing John Foster’s new book ‘After Sustainability’ with discussion by Prof Jonathan Wolff, Philosophy, UCL, and Prof Albert Weale, Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL Summary: Dangerous climate change […]
Jane Bennett on Anxiety, Whitman, Sympathy
So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…
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