From Last Girl to First Woman?: Blood, Psychadelics, and Pink Dresses

31Oct12

The post was partially inspired by Sarah Marshall‘s piece Beyond Clarice at the Hairpin. I’ve mentioned several times that I have the fantasy of retreating to a cabin somewhere, watching an egregious amount of horror films (though I wonder how many one has to watch as I’ve already seen around 200), and writing a book […]

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Tags: Beyond the Black Rainbow, feminist horror, gore, halloween, horror films, horror movies, the descent, the love ones, valerie leon

Art, Aesthetics, and Thought

27Oct12

I am consistently guilty over my lack of knowledge of contemporary art and aesthetics. Particularly in relation to Speculative Realism it seems that artists, curators, and media practitioners of various stripes are far better than philosophers or theorists at addressing art. This seems particularly evident in events such as The Matter of Contradiction (the video […]

Filed under: art, Badiou, Deleuze, Iain Hamilton Grant, politics, Ranciere, Schelling, Speculative Realism   |  2 Comments
Tags: aesthetics, art, Badiou, contemporary art, Iain Hamilton Grant, reza negarestani, Schelling, unground

Upcoming Conferences of Interest

26Oct12

There a quite a few interesting philosophy and theory conferences coming up in the next few months so I thought I’d do a post here: Feminism, Science and Materialism Feb 14-15, 2013 Keynote: Karen Barad CUNY, NYC 1000 w abstracts due November 1, 2012 Duquesne Graduate Conference in Philosophy (Philosophy and Nature) Feb 23, 2013 […]

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Tags: Adrian Johnston, apocalypse, cuny, dolar, duqesne, karen barad, nature philosophy, Philosophy, politics, quantum physics, technology, villanova, Zizek, zupancic

Sellars and Schelling: Some Notes

21Oct12

My thoughts on Sellars have benefited hugely from Brassier’s recent talks (here in Zagreb, here in Bonn) as well as Pete Wolfendale’s comments, Dan Sacilotto’s comments, and their comments on each other. What I’m interested in doing, and what a third of dissertation will attempt to do, is read Schelling as a realist through philosophies […]

Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, Hegel, history, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, nature, Schelling, transcendental materialism   |  1 Comment

Accelerating Outwards: Land and Sci-Fi

01Oct12

In a trilogy of posts about escaping the Earth, Land is in perfect form over at his blog Urban Futures. In the first part Land discusses how in exploring the Shanghai 2010 Space pavilion the future is bound to a lack of hardware and an emphasis on children as the potential inhabitants of outerspace. He […]

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Tags: accelerationism, capitalist realism, mark fisher, nick land, outward bound, sci-fi, sci-fi western, warhammer 40k