Archive for June, 2010
I am pleased to announce that Professor Timothy Morton will co-edit Thinking Nature. The fact that we have similar interests in nature and ecology but very different views should generate a divergent issue. Please submit to the CFP below. Thinking Nature Issue 1 Call for Papers Authors are invited to submit articles for Thinking Nature […]
Filed under: nature, ontology, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | 1 Comment
Tags: ecology, ecology without nature, thinking nature, timothy morton
Toy Story 3 ecology
There is a strong ecological current in Toy Story 3. At its most simplified form Toy Story 3 is 1 Corinthians 13:11 meets reduce, reuse, recycle. Childish things must be properly put away in order to move on not in a generic emotional sense but in an ecological sense. The leering threat of TS3 is […]
Filed under: fantasy, film, ontology | Leave a Comment
Tags: ecology, pixar, toy story 3
Vibrant Matter – Chapter 5
In chapter five of Vibrant Matter Bennett turns her attention to vitalism in order to flesh out her project of a vital materialism. As with the previous chapter, Bennett notes the importance of annhilating distinctions. What kinds of distinctions are being dissolved and in what fashion is a problem obscured in the term materialism. As […]
Filed under: Deleuze, Harman, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism, Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Tags: jane bennett, materialism, Schelling, vibrant matter, vitalism, volta
Vibrant Matter – Chapter 4
Outline After using a bit of Kafka Bennett begins to discuss how life fits in between the organic and the inorganic registers of existence. Bennett states that life is a “biological category” but one with traditionally humanist characteristics such as “the capacity for emotion, sociality, and reflection” (52). While animals are surely capable of these […]
Filed under: Deleuze, nature, ontology | 4 Comments
Tags: antianthrocentrism, biocentrism, d and g, jane bennett, vitalism
Bennett’s Vibrant Matter
I’ve been derelict in discussing Vibrant Matter. Several posts have been made about the first few chapters many of which are linked here. The most recent posts are on Critical Animal. I want to briefly present some thoughts on the first few chapters before focusing on the vitalism chapters next week. Adrian has a very […]
Filed under: Deleuze, ontology, politics | 2 Comments
