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Even more conferences!
Updated yet again! Failure Feb 14-15, 2013 Keynote: Jack Halberstam The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at U of W Milwaukee 300w abstracts by Dec 1, 2012 Labyrinths: Navigating Complexity Across the Humanities Feb 15-17 Keynote: Cary Wolfe McGill English Graduate Student Association 150w abstracts by Dec 1, 2012 Duquesne Graduate Conference in Philosophy (Philosophy and […]
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A Personal Post
I generally try to keep personal things off here but exceptions are made to be made. My friend Josh, who I’ve known since kindergarten, has a very well written blog here which is equal parts interesting, sad, and funny. For the better part of a decade Josh has been dealing with Schizophrenia and recently has […]
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Tags: joss whedon, personal post, poetry, schizophrenia
Ravaisson/Negarestani/Schelling
Ravaisson begins to close Of Habit writing: “Between the ultimate depths of nature and the highest point of reflective freedom, there are an infinite number of degrees of measuring the development of one and the same power, and as one rises through them, extension – the condition of knowledge – increases with the distinction and […]
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Tags: Leper Creativity, ravaisson, reza negarestani
Ongoing projects…
Some somewhat banal updates about things I’m working on: 1 – For the Of Monsters, and Miracles conference at my home university of Western I am completing a piece called “A Weird Posthumanism” which is on Lovecraft and Luciana Parisi as making a kind of proto posthumanism together with their biological articulations of early planetary […]
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Tags: Eugene Thacker, jane bennett, lovecraft, Parisi, Poe, posthuman, posthumanism, Schelling, Slime Dynamics, Steven Shaviro
via Michael Austin call for papers for a special issue of The Edgar Allan Poe Review, forthcoming in Fall 2012, and guest-edited by Sean Moreland, Devin Zane Shaw, and Jonathan Murphy. The editors invite original essays that address the influence of German Idealist and Romantic thought upon Edgar Allan Poe. While it has become a […]
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I found Ray Brassier’s recent talk on Sellars and Brandom quite interesting. What was particularly striking was Brassier’s comment that Sellars is a thinker of stratified processes, a project sounds utterly fascinating given my own attempts at trying to adequately (if speculatively) describe the relation of thought to nature. Furthermore, a critical focus of the […]
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Tags: Brandom, Johnston, Naturphilosophie, ray brassier, Schelling, Sellars, transcendental dynamism, Zizek
A Ressurection/A Shift
A complete bolt from the blue some others may have missed (I almost did) is this post by Reid over at Planomenology announcing his return to the blogosphere. Furthermore, Reid mentions that his work is turning more and more towards analytic philosophy. Peter Wolfendale has a follow up post addressing similar issues here as well. […]
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Due to yet another twist of fate it turns out that I’ll be responding to Anthony Paul Smith at the Speculative Medievalsms conference. This should be an interesting exchange as it will be a bit like the light versus the dark to varying degrees of seriousness. Also, The Speculative Turn is out. The PDF should […]
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