Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordancesby Manuel Heras-Escribano (June 2020) Affordances, or the possibilities for acting in our environments, are pervasive in everyday life. We are constantly surrounded by them: […]
This video is 8th in the 8-part video lecture series, The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1993). I. The task of creating a life with the “self […]
Theory Thursdays anyone? Below is an introduction to the life, work, and legacy of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. There is little doubt that he was a towering figure of the […]
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 […]
I’m very much looking forward to Thomas Nail‘s new book Being and Motion (out from Oxford this winter) outlining an ontography and philosophical history of movement. Nothing could be more […]
RAY BRASSIER: MARX & PHILOSOPHY The New Centre for Research & Practice – Streamed live on Jan 20, 2018 DESCRIPTION: Marx’s analysis of capital continues to haunt contemporary theoretical discourse. As […]
A Review of “After the ‘Speculative Turn’: Realism, Philosophy, Feminism” (ed. Kolozova and Joy) by Bogna M Konior Moving back and forth, spinning around and adding more threads, the spider […]
“As a philosophy of experience, pragmatism sees one of its central aims as the re-fashioning of man’s habitual apparatus; but without a critical philosophy, such an adaptation risks falling sway […]
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 […]
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…
Originally posted on Becoming Integral: Notes on Planetary Coexistence:
I often find myself thinking with Alfred North Whitehead. I recall that today is his birthday, Feburary 15 (1861-1947). I don’t…
