Posts Tagged ‘geophilosophy’
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 […]
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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 […]
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Tags: Akira, anthropocene, geophilosophy, geopolitics, Godzilla, kate paterson, nuclear disaster, nuclear waste, Pacific Rim, slow violence
Recent and Forthcoming Events
Things having calmed a bit I will try and do more regular postings here. The two lectures for the Congress of Pessimism seemed to well…I discussed reason as a kind of wandering insignificance – where the reasoner is a wayward figure stuck between the desert of reason and the ocean of nature. I hope to […]
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Tags: aesthetics, finitude, geophilosophy, geopolitics, nature, nick land, Philosophy, reza negarestani, science fiction
Upcoming Events
For those interested here’s some of the things I’m doing in the next few months: March 22 11:00AM: As part of the ACLA I’m presenting a paper entitled “The Flint of Prometheus” on the relation between Schelling, Marx, and Geology. At NYU (25 W 4th st, room c16). March 22 3:00 PM: I’ll be participating […]
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Tags: capitalism, geophilosophy, marx, pessimism, philosophy and art, post-planetary, prometheanism, reza negarestani, true detective
Jon Cogburn has posted a nice things to look for kind of post (but more thoughtful than that really) in regards to continental philosophy. The texts that he links to confirm some broader issues that I (and others) have been circling around recently: 1 – The legacy of Hegel as something more than a theory […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, cognitive science, Deleuze, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, Meillassoux, Schelling, Speculative Realism | Closed
Tags: 2014, anthropocene, deleuze, feminisms, geology, geophilosophy, Markus Gabriel, Philosophy, plato, Schelling, Tristan Garcia
Naught Thought 