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Money, Ecology, and Burning Man: Inquiries into the Thermodynamics of Capitalism 20 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm
I’m headed back to Black Rock City for the 3rd time in 4 years later this week. I’ll be camping with Cosmicopia at 7:15 J if you want to stop by. I’ll be giving a brief talk on the need to ecologize e...
Consciousness Between Science and Philosophy (response to Steve Ramirez) 31 Jul 2013 | 08:13 am
Almost three years ago, Steve Ramirez (neuroscience grad student at MIT) and I exchanged a few videos and blog posts (see HERE for a run down) about the scientific study of consciousness. Ramirez bega...
Alf Hornborg on Ecology, Economy, and Technology 28 Jul 2013 | 10:44 am
A few excerpts from professor of human ecology Alf Hornborg‘s book The Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment (2001). “We seem to have difficulties understa...
Alex Honnold’s free solo of Half Dome in Yosemite – Nobody knows what a body can do. 25 Jul 2013 | 04:31 am
Deleuze writes of Spinoza’s epochal realization that we do not know what a body can do: Spinoza will engender all the passions, in their details, on the basis of these two fundamental affects: joy as...
Robert Rosen and Friedrich Schelling on Mechanism and Organism 24 Jul 2013 | 01:31 pm
I’ve been reading some of the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen‘s essays on the relationship between biology and physics and can’t help but compare him to Friedrich Schelling. Rosen writes: [Contem...
Thinking on a Walk in the Woods: The Ideality of Matter and the Materiality of Ideas 19 Jul 2013 | 12:39 pm
Something of a response to Levi Bryant/LarvalSubjects on “hylephobia.” See also this post on the Astrality of Materiality.
“Deleuze, Guattari, and the ‘Politics of Sorcery’” by Joshua Delpech-Ramey 19 Jul 2013 | 12:32 pm
Find the article in SubStance HERE. “Deleuze and Guattari’s mode of immanent critique is linked to the possibility of founding identities and collectivities which, because inherently relational and c...
The Cosmic Body by Alan Watts 18 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
Let’s spend some time with Alan Watts. I recommend a decent dose of sour diesel just prior to pushing play. So then, is it true? Is the modern idea of consciousness–the so-called “me,” my “I,” the “e...
Imagining Nature with Schelling and Whitehead 17 Jul 2013 | 01:13 pm
Schelling and Whitehead were speculative philosophers. This appellative, like that of metaphysician or theologian, may carry with it certain baggage that those of a skeptical or positivist bent are wo...
Phenomenology and Process Ontology: Evan Thompson, Merleau-Ponty, Whitehead, and the Growing Together of the Flesh of the World 17 Jul 2013 | 02:07 am
I had a friendly exchange yesterday with the cognitive scientist and philosopher Evan Thompson about his debate earlier this year with another cognitive scientist Owen Flanagan. The two distinguished ...
