Archive for February, 2012
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
Naught Thought 