Colonial Ends/Ends of Life (pt 1)

16Nov20

Recently I did two overlapping talks (one in Brussels one online) on the question of the ends of life (genocide, apocalypse, extinction) and how this relates to the philosophy and history of biology (thinking about ends in terms of goals or thinking life teleologically in the overarching sense in that life is defined by having […]

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Tags: afropessimism, animality, Chakrabarty, sylvia wynter, Thomas Moynihan

Schelling’s Spaces (pt 2)

27Aug13

In the following I want to connect my concerns from the last post to the week of seminars Iain Hamilton Grant gave a few weeks ago at the Schelling Summerschool at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. This post only touches on my notes from Day 1. In his recent essays and in the talks given, Grant […]

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Tags: animality, aristotle, dimensionality, Iain Grant, plato, Schelling, topology