Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Jumping off from last time here I am going to make some notes about the history of biology as it concerns the relation of Darwin and Lamarck and how this applies to the social or theoretical uptake of evolutionary theory. Sylvia Wynter’s “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, of “Identity” What […]
Filed under: cognitive science, Freud, Lacan, nature, politics, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: eugenics, Fanon, Ferenczi, recapitulation, sylvia wynter
Shiny Flesh – Ideals in biology
Last time I wrote about (among other things) how the mistake of confusing the normal with the healthy should not be merely combined with a critique of the biometric approach in biology (or even more generally the mathematization of life). Canguilhem is well known for repeating over and over the impossibility of equating the normal […]
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Tags: biology, biophilosophy, biostatistics, evolution, panpsychism, philosophy of biology
A long erratic path has led me back to looking at biology and bio-philosophy as part of a book project on the relationship between German Romanticism/Naturphilosophie and French Structuralism and Materialism. Having read both analytic Philosophy of Biology (especially Grene and Depew) and various Bio-Philosophies (Bergson’s Creative Evolution, Canguilhem’s Knowledge of Life, various Deleuzian takes […]
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Tags: biology, biophilosophy, darwin, evolution, philosophy of biology
Metaphysical Bridges
There’s a very interesting (and extensive) interview with Pete Wolfendale over at Figure/Ground. One of the most exciting parts for me is the discussion of the analytic continental relationship which is something I have been working on more and more in the last 6 months (largely with Matt Hare at PAF). Pete says: The current […]
Filed under: Deleuze, history, Kant, Meillassoux, ontology, politics, Speculative Realism, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: carnap, fictionalism, idealism, kant, pete wolfendale, quine, yablo
There’s certainly no shortage of discourse on the pseudo-ephemeral nature of money. The medieval (or even older) malleability of meaning surrounding the ledger, and of the (negative) magnitude of debt, the disentanglement of currency from its geological-metallic weight, the ever-widening role of credit, and the more recent complexities of crypto-currency and off-shore tax shelters, have […]
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Tags: art, art criticism, art theory, bataille, cryptocurrency, Goldin and Senneby, Headless, roy andersson
Some recent publications: An essay on Tombs and Design appeared in the journal Design Ecologies with a preface by science fiction author Peter Watts. Details here. An essay based on a talk on parasitism and Schelling is in the Weaponsing Speculations collection. Details here. My essay version of a talk done in London on Schelling […]
Filed under: Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, Meillassoux, nature, ontology, politics, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | Leave a Comment
Tags: Ariadne, Australia, design, ecological design, ecologies, geology, geophilosophy, Negarestani, paf, parasites, Performing Arts Forum
The massiveness of the nuclear is ‘lightened’ only by a catastrophe. The Earth is geophilosophically and geopolitically frustrating because it’s an ongoing nuclear disaster (a great heat engine as James Hutton understood it) but one that is metastable while proving itself the ground of all production whether noetic or material. Whether the collecting of ferrite […]
Filed under: Deleuze, fantasy, film, history, Iain Hamilton Grant, literature, nature, ontology, politics, Schelling | 2 Comments
Tags: Akira, anthropocene, geophilosophy, geopolitics, Godzilla, kate paterson, nuclear disaster, nuclear waste, Pacific Rim, slow violence
Post-Lisbon/PAF
Being back stateside I finally have some time to reflect on some recent events in Europe. I already reported on the Berlin Summer school here but, following that, I was in Lisbon for one week for a great event organized by Margarida Mendes. The week-long summer school focused on geo-philosophy and mattering which addressed issues […]
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Tags: agi, beauty, deleuze, foucalt, freedom, inhumanism, justice, Lucca Fraser, pete wolfendale, reza negarestani, spinzoa
Naught Thought 