Gabriel Catren on Mechanics as Formal Ontology

Graham Harman and Semiconductor at Cafe Oto

Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) will be presenting a sound art piece using aggregated seismic data from around the world at Cafe Oto in London, Thursday 15 November (A new venue to me, but after a look at their website I’m intending to be a habitué). Also on are computer music artist Valentina Vuksic and […]

Anthropologically Bounded Posthumanism

My talk at the IUC Dubrovnik, 12 Sept 2012   Anthropologically Bounded Posthumanism from David Roden

Agent Swarm on Machine and Mechanism

Over at Agent Swarm Terrance Blake has a succinct and remarkably clear post on the distinction between the machinic and the mechanical in Deleuze and Guatarri’s work.

Levi on Lacan and Posthumanism

  A recent talk by Levi Bryant on Lacan and Posthumanism. Haven’t had a chance to listen to it in full, so I’ll defer any response for now!

Anthropocentrism X 3

Jeremy Trombley has a neat post listing three criticism of anthropocentrism: boundary, agential and perspectival. The boundary criticism holds that anthropocentrism is wrong because it makes arbitrary distinctions between beings that merit ethical consideration and beings who do not. The agential criticism is that anthropocentric philosophies fail to recognize nonhumans as active participants in the constitution […]

Wave functions represent physical reality shock

Well, according to this phys.org abstract they do.

Against Ecological Anthropocentrism

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects (forthcoming, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen) 

Derrida’s Realism

There’s an instructive debate going on between Graham Harman at Object Oriented Philosophy (henceforth OOO) and Levi Bryant over at Larval Subjects (henceforth LS) about whether Derrida’s work is serviceable for realism. OOO is emphatic: not only is Derrida not a ‘plug and play’ realist, his work has no realist application at all. Unlike Heidegger – whose account of […]

What Derrida is Realist About

There’s an instructive debate going on between Graham Harman at Object Oriented Philosophy (henceforth OOO) and Levi Bryant over at Larval Subjects (henceforth LS) about whether Derrida’s work is serviceable for realism. OOO is emphatic: not only is Derrida not a ‘plug and play’ realist, his work has no realist application at all. Unlike Heidegger – whose account of […]