March 2012
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“The point of this broader orientation– which I share –that includes nonhumans is...”
– Levi Bryant - Musings on Onticology and Politics II
THIS. Thisthisthisthisthisthis
February 2012
63 posts
samrick replied to your post: Canada’s Kickstarter: Grants, the State and the Ontology of Technology (Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society 2012 in New York City)
ess in ny? did you know we were in the same place at the same time?? :o also i had brunch with andrew the day after you had dinner with him. small tumblr world.
Small world indeed! Let me know next time you are in the...
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Canada's Kickstarter: Grants, the State and the...
On february 8th a company in Southern California announced to the world that they were going to build a game for 400 thousand dollars. Here is the video they used to announce it.
The next day they had raised more than 1 million dollars for the project. Right now the current amount raised is above 2 million, with approximately 60 thousand individual backers.
If you aren’t familiar with...
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Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science... →
towerofsleep:
cameronr:
I will buy a console and all of the Mass Effect games based on this article alone.
Also the trailer for the game looks sweet.
This sounds like THE GREATEST VIDEOGAME OF ALL TIME. I wouldn’t even have dared to imagine a game so awesome. Surely, after reading this article, the actual game could only be a disappointment.
Mass Effect is actually a really really fun...
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lukesimcoe replied to your post: Onticology,... →
20yardsoflinen:
So, this was an interesting back and forth. I don’t really have a desire to keep the discussion going on the same track after it seems to have run its course. I also don’t have any insightful comments on OOO to add—I’ve read so little of the literature. What I have, mostly from Harman and Bryant has been, has been clever and, as Dan points out, innovative. Although Luke’s right...
“When Chocano writes, then, that Downton Abbey is “a fantasy in which an...”
– The Earnestness of Being Grantham – The New Inquiry | Aaron Bady (via towerofsleep)
I imagine when I finish Downton I will have to speak more about the role that labour is playing in the show. This teases out some of the ideas that were stirring in my head last night.
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WatchSeeing things, by Ian Bogost
tphd:
I USED TO BE THE UNIVERSE BUT THEN I BECAME A MAN
I MUSHROOMED UP OUT OF THE UNKNOWN TUMULT AND STRETCHED MY READY LIMBS
CAUGHT SUNLIGHT IN THE PRISM OF MY SKIN
AND TRANSFORMED IT INTO THE FOG OF BREATH AND OTHER STUFF
I FELT MY TOES SING AGAINST THE HOT CONCRETE
AND FELT ALIVE
BUT LIKE AN ARROW SHOT FROM HIGH VANTAGE
I EXHALED ACROSS THE SKY AND THEN
BEGAN TO PLUMMET
LOADED UP...
Why Do Cats Purr?
fakescience:
Fact!
An internet troll's opinion should carry no more... →
Ugh.
lukesimcoe replied to your post: Onticology,... →
lukesimcoe:
dropouthangoutspaceout:
At this point Luke, I would invite you to read the introduction to Democracy of Objects, which discusses more in depth why questions of ontology matter. Here is a little bit…
I feel like the response to anything I say about this stuff is always “but ontology is important, man…” I get this. It’s deduction; the first principles you establish can totally...
lukesimcoe replied to your post: Onticology,... →
lukesimcoe:
Sure… I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, nor do I disagree with Saelan and Jen’s points. And, as always, I’ll cop to not doing the work to sufficiently claim any authority here. You’ve all put far more time into reading and thinking ‘bout this stuff than me, However, it seems like a lot of OOO has premised itself on a somewhat disingenuous critique; like what Dan does here,...
GamesNetwork Must Be Destroyed
christianmccrea:
The email list known as GamesNetwork is the primary discussion list for games research in the English language. It must also now be abandoned and destroyed. It only has one good purpose - It collects CFPs, which are benign. Aside from that, it then has two major forms of conversation.
1) The bibliography search.
A tourist will emerge with a singularly woolly topic and ask that...
towerofsleep replied to your post: lukesimcoe replied to your post: Onticology,…
In response to Luke’s point, it’s true that capitalism doesn’t exist without people, but it recruits an awful lot of forces and entities (human and non) that ought not be be reduced to their position within capitalistic human relations.
becoming-wave replied to your post: lukesimcoe replied to your post:...
lukesimcoe replied to your post: Onticology, historical materialism, the virtual, morphogenetics
Capitalism doesn’t exist without people. If you’re trying to create a philosophy which explains the phenomenon of capitalism, you must “require the correlate of human cognition to find its ontological status.” I don’t see how this is a problem.
I’m not doing a very good job of explaining...
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Onticology, historical materialism, the virtual,...
While many entities must certainly come to be, it does not follow from this that the being of entities can be defined by the process of which they came to be. Were this the case, then we would reduce entities to their history. However, as every parent knows, while they were certainly the efficient cause of their child coming to be, the child has a being independent of this morphogenetic process...
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“There is a tendency among the Left today — and I mean all varieties of the Left...”
– Fredric Jameson (via azspot)
Freddy is a transnational treasure. Check out this pretty great interview that rabble did.
postdubstep:
Big K.R.I.T. - King Pt. 2 Drake,...
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“Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours...”
– Karl Marx 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
This quote struck me because it’s kinda hilarious to hear Marx use the word ‘stupid’. It seems too simple, and yet, totally works.
Anyways Marx using the word ‘stupid’ is basically the high point of working through...
lukesimcoe replied to your link: Fukuyama’s ‘End of History Drone’
Can we also make an “Adorno on Music” drone that flys around jazz concerts belittling the audience for being sheep?
andrewfm replied to your link: Fukuyama’s ‘End of History Drone’
I fully support a KVLT MARX drone
ALL OF THIS
teaandthorazine replied to your link: Fukuyama’s ‘End of History Drone’
yeah, only if there’s also a “fear the culture industry” drone driving around shouting chapters of the dialectic of enlightenment
Deal!
Lessons from Woody Harrelson’s ‘epic fail’ on... →
lukesimcoe:
So, I’m blogging sporadically for Macleans about internet culture. I’d appreciate it if you could help me turn the comment board into a wretched hive of trolling and flamewars.
Hey read the things that Luke writes for the internet machine.
Fukuyama's 'End of History Drone' →
This is kind of hilarious in that I haven’t read anything by Fukuyama in years and he pops up in my Twitter feed having built a drone.
I like the idea of an End of History Drone, flying around with a loudspeaker espousing the Hegelian conception of history:
vrrrrrr “Liberal democracy is here, now and forever! We begin anew, fellow citizens as humanity’s pinnacle...
Messification: Why Games Should Be Designed to Be... →
Reading for later (via @ibogost)
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“… when we cast about for objects to contemplate, our tendency is to...”
– Levi Bryant , in The Democracy of Objects on how mugs don’t posses the colour blue, but rather do blue. Rather than thinking of objects as possessing fixed qualities, we need to think about their virtual properties, those which exist in reserve, but are just as real, if not actual. The cup...
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My life as a cat: an hour with Terry Cavanagh's... →
lukesimcoe:
Big fan of this.
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andrewfm replied to your quote: The philosophers have only interpreted the world,…
Of course, social action being the goal of thought is not in itself defensible by appeal to social action! Marx said some snappy stuff, but wasn’t always a good philosopher.
This course I’m in is giving me new respect for Marx as a philosopher, especially considering that almost all of his...