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I am going to be in New York City from Feb 23-26....
"This is especially true for Clarkson, whose story... →
barthel:
I wrote about why Kelly Clarkson’s endorsement of Ron Paul makes total sense in the context of pop music.
Queering Speculative Realism →
A book that will become a reality!
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The phrase ‘speculative realism’ is no longer beloved by everyone it describes, and may be used less often in the future. I still find it to be an effective term, one that draws wide attention to a fairly diverse set of philsophical programmes by pointing accurately to key similarities among them. Though it is always a badge of honour for intellectuals to refuse being stamped with...
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A response to Jussi Parikka: or why materialism... →
So what does OOO offer for my field (the computational arts) which I find helpful and genuinely new? Well it returns to that question which has been removed from the arts which deals with the autonomy of the artwork itself. This is the most important question I feel, the only question worth mulling over, not just aesthetically, but also politically. For the most part, the idea of an artwork...
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Re: RAGNAROK, Ron Paul gets it. →
areasofmyexpertise:
”This portfolio is a half-step away from a cellar-full of canned goods and nine-millimeter rounds,” he says. Link courtesy DKos. That is all.
“Mr. Bernstein says he has never seen such an extreme bet on economic catastrophe.”
GUYS. Guys. This is how they live! The world is full of lazy people who want to take your things AND it’s about to fall apart all...
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“Jobs, it would seem, gets moral credit for good design. Those “think different”...”
– Paint it White (via @ibogost)
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THE VIRTUES OF LONG COMPILES: Thoughts on the... →
Briggle and Frodeman: A New Philosophy for the... →
It is time to reclaim the public role of philosophy. This does not mean rejecting rigor. By venturing into the agora, testing his ideas out in the world, Socrates did not abandon standards. Rather, he embodied a different type of rigor, one sensitive to and partially defined by social context.
Academic philosophizing suffers from what Hegel called a bad infinity—that to every...
“Ayn Rand is the end of philosophy.”
– Someone who just lost their living privileges.
(via attorneyatmetaphysicallaw)
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And here I thought I was jaded to end-of-philosophy declarations.
(via nomadologue)
Speculative Realism is neither continental nor... →
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Graham Harman: my own views on the Philosophical... →
I’m already on record as disagreeing with the repeated assertion that the analytic/continental distinction is “meaningless,” or whatever. It’s not meaningless at all. They are two utterly different cultures that value completely different authors and completely different human talents. There is some overlap, but let’s face it– the overlap is not all that extensive. As Rorty once put it, many...
Richard Feynman: Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
Jonathan Schaffer: It is likely that ornithological knowledge would be of great benefit to birds, were it possible for them to possess it.
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Levi Bryant: Onticology and Politics →
A friend of mine was kind enough to share some of his political worries with Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology. Some of my readers might find my response of interest as the question of politics comes up often in relation to SR. I understand your worries about the de-politicization of ontology, but I also can’t help but feel that Meillassoux and Badiou are making a very political...
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I'm coining the term "Blatchet job".
lukesimcoe:
I know Sunday is the worst day to try and popularize anything on the internet because people are outside and stuff, but I really think we need to put this term on the map.
It’s slang for any op-ed or faux-news story designed solely to foment temporary outrage and generate web hits.
Spread it around…
EDIT: In order to help this idea spread through the internets, I’m attaching a...
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WatchWhat is this I don’t even
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“An old maxim states that there are two kinds of critics: those who want us to...”
– Graham Harman in Prince of Networks
“Financialization is just part of a wider ‘vectoralization’ in which all social...”
– MUSE - McKenzie Wark - This Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit
Essential.
(via towerofsleep)
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Toronto Standard: How Suits Make Monkeys Out of... →
Menswear, meanwhile, has evolved into something vaguely resembling MuchMusic: no amount of snarky hipster lexicon can cover up for its gross cultural irrelevance. It remains stagnantly Western, and more specifically, British. At one point this diversity dike could be blamed on men’s aversion to, well, fashion. But with men everywhere jumping on the “maybe I should wear a belt with this” bandwagon,...
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“From its high-water mark as a thrilling perplexity lying between all animate and...”
– Graham Harman. (2009) Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics. (p. 35).