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jump on a plane/ get awta Dodge and settle into a Floridian Bar far away from everywhere. Is that a (sic) "Cop-out?" Elmore Fuddyduddy did wonder, but only for a few seconds that it took for the first, Crisp and Pint mate? Sure. Cheers. On me. Said you were from where? As the clock struck two, the chimes melted into the fire they'd provided for the cold wanderers, archdeacons of the night like me. His father was a trawlerman, his father before him. Owned the hotel before it was bombed. See? He points to the Swanage Inn, now a memorial garden opposite the Tavern. Bombed all over London see? I did see. Knew it too. Had heard many times "if it weren't for us you'd be speaking Gehermanlicjtein by now" which was better? Being or Geseimlichte? Existence or Existenze Phenomenologie, eh? He whispered for me to look. A stunning calvary of Friday night revellers were in top notch dosh like they were tweeting, so to speak, every oracular available turned. It's the Pram Race next. Stockings and beer. Sticking it in the gullet, throwing up at two a.m. Far cry from my Texas home; tho I had been to the Miami Dade Pram race back in the Florida days, but this... well, what can I tell you? It was qwaint in ways that only the English can be. Small and intense. AN BOGOST - VIDEOGAME THEORY, CRITICISM, DESIGN

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SPECULATIVE REALISM This page aggregates posts from blogs that cover Speculative Realismin one way or another. An RSS feed for this aggregator is also available, with complete posts for the source sites that provide them. Show list of included blogs.Am I missing any? Let me know. (This is just an aggregator; aside from the posts that come from this site, all of the others were created by and remain the property of their respective authors.) Object-Oriented Philosophy November 20, 2010 from Tanzania This post comes to you from Arusha, in northern Tanzania. It’s been an incredible safari in Kenya and Tanzania, seeing 6 parks in 9 days, featuring close encounters with every major animal except the elusive leopard. I’ll post some photos when I get back to Cairo, starting tomorrow. But it’s been a remarkable trip, and [...] from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com ANTHEM November 19, 2010 Schoolchildren strike Who said young people are not interested in politics? Thousands of schoolchildren and sixth formers are expected to take part in a national walkout on Wednesday as student protests over fees. (…) At the forefront of the demonstrations will be thousands of school and FE students – some as young as 15 – who have [...] from anthem-group.net Immanence November 19, 2010 things . . . scribbled on a restaurant napkin: 1. Things are always already in process. 2. More complex things are more in process, or in more (and different) processes, than simpler things. 3. Growing/developing/evolving things tend to become more complex. Other things tend to become less so. 4. Being in process, things elude capture. Those that don't become other things, and generally simpler things, t [...] from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu Philosophy in a Time of Error November 19, 2010 Most popular New York Times stories The list is here and, yes, some of them vaguely sound like they’re from the onion. Who knew a story on Ramen noodles would be the most popular NY Times story of all time (or at least since they started tracking online)? Update: As Michael notes in the comments, it’s a satire. I was obviously [...] from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com Ecology without Nature November 19, 2010 Hyperobjects 3.0: Physical Graffiti Here's the lecture I gave at Rice today. Featuring extensive discussions of relativity and quantum theory. I'm particularly happy with the stuff on relativity, which I've been keeping under wraps for a while. Basically everything Graham says about time and space on the inside of an object is what Einstein also says in another key. Also featuring the work of Levi Bryant and Ian Bogost. from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Critical Animal November 19, 2010 Stuff on comments Two important things. (1) I just noticed that several legitimate comments to my blog were flagged as spam. Not sure why, but if you ever have problems with comments, drop me an email. (2) We are having troll issues here at Critical Animal. My immediate reaction has been to make all comments moderated. Which I don't enjoy. If anyone has better ideas about how to deal with trolls, let me know. (Also [...] from criticalanimal.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 19, 2010 Rice Grad Class on OOO and Speculative Realism Great students, clearly having a good time at Rice, asked a lot of great questions and got me thinking about OOO as I presented some of my work and the final chapter of Graham Harman's Prince of Networks.One significant emerging topic was the role of rhetoric in object-oriented ontology, a theme I'll be returning to in LA. from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Philosophy in a Time of Error November 18, 2010 Links… 1. Devin Shaw has a post up on last week’s RPA (I appreciate his kind comments), and I agree on his own paper being about Benjamin, not Agamben. His comments on Bat-Ami Bar On’s plenary are right on, though of course, he’s agreeing with me, so that seems a weird way of agreeing with myself. (I [...] from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com ANTHEM November 18, 2010 In Tesco We Trust Further on the Banksy theme (and here is the background story): from anthem-group.net Algorithm and Contingency November 18, 2010 No1: Well Hung Art Today’s post is about a digital artwork, social intervention and Chatroulette, so with that in mind, don’t let the title fool you, at least not entirely. I’m written a 100 or so posts on this blog and I’ve only just realised that aside from writing about classic net.art pieces like, ’Every Icon’, I’ve hardly passed any commentary on contemporary digital ar [...] from robertjackson.info Archive Fire November 18, 2010 Merleau-Ponty, Agency and Embodied Cognition from feedproxy.google.com K-Punk November 18, 2010 Fear and misery in neoliberal Britain Don't worry, I haven't given up blogging - nor do I value blogging any less than I used to. The reason there have been no posts here for ages is the because the pressure of precarity has reached a new... from k-punk.abstractdynamics.org Larval Subjects November 18, 2010 Class and Hyperobjects In A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, Joseph Catalano writes: For Sartre, the reality of class is more than a subjective awareness that we are united with others and less than a supraconsciousness in which we all already share… We… experience [my emphasis] our membership in a class, because our class structure [...] from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com Larval Subjects November 18, 2010 Antipraxis From an object-oriented point of view, one of the most valuable concepts in Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason is that of antipraxis. As Joseph Catalano describes it in his Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, One of the distinctive aspects of praxis is that it acts in the face of an authorless counterpraxis. [...] from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com Critical Animal November 18, 2010 A Post of Links You might remember my reservations regarding the string of videos making fun of undergraduates who wanted to go on to secondary school. Well, Karl Steel shares this wonderful video of a professor and student seriously discussing graduate school. My only reservation is the idea of the life of the mind. Whatever else graduate school and being a professor is, it isn't the life of the mind. But nothin [...] from criticalanimal.blogspot.com Another Heidegger Blog November 18, 2010 Post-Continental Voices So I finally got my copy of Post-Continental Voices yesterday and I am really digging the Zero style. The books are compact and you could easily carry them on a bus trip with it being a bit of an ordeal. I won't have time to read through it and I am not sure if I want to as I am bound to spot errors. So I think I'll put it away somewhere for a bit. As for now I am beholden to my PhD but hope to re [...] from anotherheideggerblog.blogspot.com Critical Animal November 18, 2010 Books that changed my mind This post follows up on the meme I picked up from Joshua Miller.The purpose is not to list books that made me think more deeply about a subject (that's most books), or to list books that made me think a new thought (less books, but still important). This are books that specifically changed my mind about something.(1) Marx's German Ideology. I picked this up early in college, and it destroyed the h [...] from criticalanimal.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 18, 2010 Levi on Class as a Hyperobject He's done it again. Somebody call the police! This is just too many good ideas to have in a week. Levi Bryant is reading Sartre in a most invigorating way and he's just reformulated class as a hyperobject. I like this very much, because it enables us to think about class as an actual object. Just as Braudel discovers capitalism as a massively distributed network of pockets of capitalist production [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ian Bogost November 17, 2010 Los Angeles Litany Game Design, Newsgames, Objects, and Whitehead — I'm doing a whole crap-ton of things in Los Angeles the week after Thanksgiving. First I'll be visiting Tracy Fullerton's game design class at USC on Monday. Next I'll be giving a talk on Newsgames at the USC Annenberg School, at noon on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday, I'll be participating in a one-day event at UCLA, HELLO EVERYTHING: Speculative [...] from www.bogost.com The Pinocchio Theory November 17, 2010 Affective Mapping It’s come to my attention that, in my already-published article, and soon-to-be-published book, Post-Cinematic Affect, I appropriated my colleague Jonathan Flatley’s notion of “affective mapping” (which is indeed even the title of his fine book) without citing him. Now, my entire method of writing is based upon appropriating and hijacking textual material as widely as [...] [...] from www.shaviro.com Larval Subjects November 17, 2010 Problematizing Kant In the first section of his Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals Kant remarks that “[n]othing in the world– indeed nothing even beyond the world –can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a good will” (393). What, then, is a good will according to Kant? Later Kant goes on to [...] from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com Immanence November 17, 2010 U of Alexandria hits the big time? When I first heard that an Egyptian university placed fourth worldwide in scholarly productivity, and that it was due to the work of a single scholar, I couldn't help thinking of Graham Harman churning out brilliant philosophical tomes out of American University in Cairo... Turns out this guy beats Graham handily in quantity and -- inversely speaking (!) -- in quality. A good reason to edit one's [...] from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu Archive Fire November 17, 2010 Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change from feedproxy.google.com Naught Thought November 16, 2010 The Pox of Deleuzo-Guattarianism Deleuze and Guattari’s work has become a theoretical edifice which entraps as much as it seems to project – a neuronal tarpit. D and G’s work is a kind of over-inclusive middle stretching in an infinite horizon (bwo, plane of immanence, rhizomatic carpet, etc). Over inhaling too much laterality has resulted in various forms of [...] from naughtthought.wordpress.com Larval Subjects November 16, 2010 Problematic Reading One way of reading a philosopher is not so much in terms of the letter of what the text says, but rather in terms of the problem to which that text responds. This was the reading method that Deleuze prescribed. Many are familiar with Deleuze’s description of the history of philosophy as a sort of [...] from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com Philosophy in a Time of Error November 16, 2010 Annals of Backhanded Compliments… Stuart Elden, whom I must stop linking to before he gets a restraining order, reels in this catch: Many people will be aware of the ‘what is it like to be a woman in philosophy’ blog, which makes for very depressing reading. Here’s an example from history – both in time (from 1954) and the discipline… [...] from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com Philosophy in a Time of Error November 16, 2010 Cixious on the French Protests In case you missed it: ’The rights of men and women are not safe in France’ French scholar Hélène Cixous on the why the Sarkozy government is taking sides with capital over its people – and why resistance gives her hope for the future. from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com Ecology without Nature November 16, 2010 Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change An extraordinary documentary by Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro. Take-away line of many: “I can't forecast the weather any more.” from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 16, 2010 Elizabeth Fraser ...and then there's this. Just when you thought you could never hear anything more from the Cocteau Twins...Hey by the way when I first heard this I was living here:My room was on the ground floor (the bay and french windows you can see at the bottom left of the building). Just outside was the lamppost where Mr. Tumnus is first seen by Lucy (for real, C.S. Lewis used to live a few hundred yards aw [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 16, 2010 La Selva Can I highly, highly recommend reading Alphonso Lingis's The Imperative while listening to Francisco Lopez's La Selva? Lopez opens your ears to the enveloping sound of the jungle as I remember it from an all too brief trip to the Amazon in 1987. You are enveloped by life forms, totally. The temperature is 98 degrees—no difference between inside and outside. Day surges up like the sun in Shelley's [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Hyper tiling November 16, 2010 Derrida Quote of the Day I do not have confidence in just any conceptual distinctions. When this or that conceptual opposition does not oper ate distinctly, when it functions only by virtue of a too ”weak” idealization that pays the price of excluding all phenomena called “marginal” and of being inca pable of describing or accounting for anything whatsoever, then,without re nouncing either the [... [...] from hypertiling.wordpress.com Philosophy in a Time of Error November 16, 2010 On Teaching Lear H/T to Stuart Elden, who linked to J.J. Cohen’s thoughts on teaching King Lear. It is one of my favorite texts to teach (and read), and I’m often amazed how much, given work on sovereignty and bare life, the work has not been written on after the Agamben wave. (I mean, come on, the essay [...] from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com Ecology without Nature November 16, 2010 The Trouble with Materialism As I walked towards the car I formed a question for the brilliant Adrian Johnston, who's visiting today (isn't that always the way).How come we can't tell scientists what to do? How come our position as humanists is simply to interpret science?(Especially if the point is not to interpret the world but to change it.)Because though he put a lot of Hegelian bells and whistles on it, the final point w [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Critical Animal November 16, 2010 Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler Recently, I and Joshua Miller got into a discussion over the importance of Judith Butler over at his blog (bonus, see what books and essays actually changed his mind about something. Which is a great meme that I would like to see reproduced). One of the points he made was that he felt that much of what Judith Butler has been arguing about with precarity is secondary literature on Agamben. I don't [...] from criticalanimal.blogspot.com Philosophy in a Time of Error November 16, 2010 Things We Don’t Need Kotsko links to John Milbank’s longish take on Stephen Fry’s recent claim that women don’t enjoy sex. I will leave aside Milbank’s comments and concentrate on this one sentence: “We need instead a more truly paradoxical mode of radical conservatism or conservative radicalism.” No, this is what we don’t need. I sat through Bat-Ami Bar On’s [...] from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com Ecology without Nature November 16, 2010 Autopoesis or Smoke and Mirrors It's elementary to see how autopoesis is a smoke-and-mirrors exercise. For a Spencer-Brown style mark to exist, there has already got to be an inscribable surface. There is no auto, then, to do any poesis. There is already a system of meaningfulness in place.This inscribable surface, in nuce, is Derrida's arche-writing.Better then to start with this—there is NO NATURE, not even an autopoetic one.W [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 16, 2010 Processes and Texts: The Trouble with Lava Lamps I'm beginning to suspect that a whole bunch of post-postmodern thinking is a regression from it, not a progression. In other words, it represents a desperate attempt to construct a “new and improved” version of the good old Nature that Derrida et al. erased. This time it's autopoetic, processual, lava-lampy. I call it lava lamp materialism.It appears to evoke joy in the reader. Like “Hey, look at [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Philosophy in a Time of Error November 16, 2010 Michael Marder on Derrida and Alienation From a review in NDPR of Simon Skempton’s Alienation after Derrida (Continuum: 2010), Marder argues against the fetish for the Other in recent Continental discourse: It is no secret that contemporary philosophy is under the spell of the Other. A host of rather automatic, ethico-political associations follows the invocations of “otherness” like a comet-tail: hospitality, [...] from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com Philosophy in a Time of Error November 16, 2010 What is Philosophy? Leiter links to this series of interviews on the subject… from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com Ecology without Nature November 16, 2010 Kant vs. Burke: The Rematch I had a good time teaching a class about Kant and Burke today. I found myself talking about how you could argue that the contradictions between capitalism and democracy, or between environmentalism and ecology, or between consumerism and religion, is also an aesthetic debate between Burke and Kant. We've been living in these guys' heads for two hundred plus years!Burke sees the sublime embodied in [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 16, 2010 Annakin Skywalker Weighs in on Global Warming ...courtesy of my daughter of 6 years...he's clearly been corrupted by the Emperor. Exasperated, Obi Wan tries to respond, but they're in the heat of battle and his question goes unnoticed: from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Immanence November 15, 2010 slouching toward the Cancun bar Peaksurfer's Albert Bates has a very good article up called The Great Change: Slouching towards Cancun. A few tidbits: Because of the huge outpouring of non-profit energy, money and effort at Copenhagen last year, and the subsequent meltdown of the Copenhagen round, the approach to this year’s COP (Conference of Parties to the Framework Climate Convention) has been like a drunk waking up with a [...] from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu Critical Animal November 15, 2010 Some More Thoughts On Cheating I assume most of you have seen this CHE story (h/t Joey) written by someone who writes custom papers for students who pay for it (and they pay a lot). It's interesting, if not terribly noteworthy (except for how much he and the company he worked for gets paid. Particularly the company, which seems to be extracting close to a 100% profit). However, certain responses to the story are worth noting. T [...] from criticalanimal.blogspot.com Philosophy in a Time of Error November 15, 2010 Janicaud on Worldly Reason Since I mentioned his Powers of the Rational this weekend at the RPA, I’ll note two quotes appropriate to that discussion since his book actually is right in my line of sight in my office: Janicaud was deeply influenced by Heidegger’s account of technicity, but he was attempting to think the contingency of history and [...] from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com Philosophy in a Time of Error November 15, 2010 Gert-Jan van der Heiden, The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricoeur and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement The NDPR has a review of Gert-Jan’s book (which I saw in earlier drafts) here. from philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com ANTHEM November 15, 2010 Violence against windows and property As I hinted at it in my previous post, one debate about the appropriateness of the direct action of student protesters in London on 10 November 2010 emerged around the distinction between violence against inanimate objects versus human beings, in this case the police. Some observers though have condemned both forms of violence, such as [...] from anthem-group.net Archive Fire November 15, 2010 Protevi: Mind in Life, Mind in Process from feedproxy.google.com Ecology without Nature November 15, 2010 Worms Translate Wood Courtesy of Zimoun. Turn your volume up high. They are worming about some wood. Is this object-oriented art? HT Cameron Tonkinwise. from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 15, 2010 Climate Summit Livestream HERE, featuring Harrison Ford and James Cameron, and David Cameron (boo). from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 15, 2010 Global Climate Summit at UC Davis today Featuring David Cameron, wrecker of Britain, and idiots with denialist placards. Website here. from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 15, 2010 Levi on Sartre HERE. I'll have to read through it some more to think about it properly. But I was thinking exactly the same thing about plate glass. Its invention in the early nineteenth century enabled us to be consumerists--all those window displays...environmentalism is seeing "nature" as a window display. from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Immanence November 14, 2010 ecomedia studies blog I somehow missed that the Ecomedia Studies group (which I was a co-founder of) has launched an eponymous blog. (It used to be a group wiki page, but now has morphed into a public blog.) It looks very good, and features some of the more prolific young scholars in ecomedia criticism, green media studies, ecocinecriticism, and what have you. It may even give the (now hot, now cold) Indications a run [...] from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu Ian Bogost November 14, 2010 Trying to Meet An Email Found Poem — Sounds like Thursday lunch is a bust What does everyone's schedule look like Next week? I'm also available Thursday at 3:30 Unclear, I have this other thing at 2, or 4. Tuesday 14th lunch is fine with me Wed 8 11-12 also good I currently have a meeting 12-1 and teach 1:30-3 Maybe Friday morning? I guess you didn't see the e-mail Yesterday I am out of town next week So, [...] from www.bogost.com Ecology without Nature November 14, 2010 An OOO Art Project On Twitter recently, @agfa8x alias Carl Douglas was ruminating on the joys of a book with uncut pages and I was ruminating on libraries as treasure troves of unseen, unknown stuff.Seriously. All good librarians enjoy withholding objects from scholars. Some of the withdrawnness of objects has rubbed off on them, to good effect. A good university library should contain objects that almost no one, pe [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Immanence November 14, 2010 briefing Once this blog migrates to the new site -- which should happen as soon as the UVM blogmasters press the right buttons and set the transition into motion -- I plan to start a regular (weekly or so) feature directing readers to interesting developments in ecoculture and geophilosophy. (And sometimes "mediapolitics," where it converges with the other two.) It won't be a comprehensive report, but more [...] from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu Immanence November 13, 2010 inside job It's not as good a film as I would have liked -- there are too many talking heads, and director/interviewer Charles Ferguson (who remains conveniently invisible throughout) has an annoying tendency to look for "gotcha" moments, when his interview subjects hesitate and stumble in answering his questions, as if these provide the smoking gun that shows us they're lying, squirming, deceitful cheaters. [...] from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu Ecology without Nature November 13, 2010 Skholiast, Buddhism, Lingis, Levinas, Objects, Face, Emptiness, Longinus Almost telepathic. But who is channeling whom? from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Archive Fire November 13, 2010 Deleuze and Societies of Control from feedproxy.google.com Algorithm and Contingency November 13, 2010 Forget Minority Report As expected, the new peripheral add-on for Microsoft’s Xbox 360; ‘Kinect’ has been hacked into, the contents within used for someones bizarre ideas, like a technological pimp. Whats fascinating isn’t the somewhat expected connections to Minority Report or dozens of sci-fi desktop aesthetic interfaces; these types of connections were made when Kinect was previously announced [...] from robertjackson.info Ian Bogost November 12, 2010 Process, Place, Relic, and Escalation My Indiecade "Project Next" Talk — In addition to getting to exhibit (and collect two awards!) for A Slow Year at this year's Indiecade festival, I was also invited to do a talk at the conference portion of the event, in a session called "Project Next." Jon Blow, Chris Hecker, Alex Neuse, Paolo Pedercini and I all gave short talks about the new games we each are working on. Jon gave a though [...] from www.bogost.com Larval Subjects November 12, 2010 Humans, Things, and Politics: Sartre In my last post I mentioned that Joe Hughes, Jeff Bell and I are drawing up plans for a book on social and political philosophy and ontology. It seems to me that Sartre poses the nature of the question we’ll try to address. In the Critique of Dialectical Reason, Sartre remarks that “…man [sic.] is [...] from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com Algorithm and Contingency November 12, 2010 Forgot I bought this Yeah, forgot about this one as well. I can’t subject my cats to this beast of a hardback. It would break them. from robertjackson.info Ecology without Nature November 12, 2010 Cynicism vs. Hypocrisy Deleuze and Guattari famously put these two at odds in Anti-Oedipus. I'm thinking about them in a slightly different way today, vis a vis some things I've been chewing over about our predicament as humanists.D&G say they are the only two choices available in capitalism. In so doing are they being cynics, or hypocrites? I hope the latter. See, I'm a hypocrite, and here's why. Cynics are really [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Algorithm and Contingency November 12, 2010 Towards Speculative Realism: Cat Purchase Received this morning. Admittedly the cats aren’t the least bit interested. Still, it proves Harman’s withdrawn wager. They have no relation to whats inside Towards Speculative Realism, it is merely an annoying object that is interrupting valued ‘Garden Spy’ time. from robertjackson.info Critical Animal November 12, 2010 A Post of Links I've been very negligent in keeping up with the various blogs and discussions, so I am sure I am going to miss a lot of important stuff. If it seems I have missed some things, let me know.I just saw this cool looking conference over at SUNY-Buffalo, Animal.Machine.Sovereign. If I still lived nearby, I would have to be going. As it is, you still might want to think about going. (h/t Complete Lies). [...] from criticalanimal.blogspot.com Larval Subjects November 12, 2010 Tangled Geographies Keith Woodward has organized two panels on Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Ontology and Geography at this years meeting of the Association for American Geographies (AAG) in Seattle (April 12 – 16). I’m presenting the following paper: Tangled Geographies: Object-Oriented Ontology and Topological Space-Times Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) argues that being, at its most fundamental l [...] from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com Immanence November 12, 2010 hermaphroditic slugs This is better than the snail sex scene in Microcosmos. H/t to BBC Earth via Leaf Warbler and Reconciliation Ecology. And here's more context, worth seeing if only for ol' Davey (Attenborough)'s enthusiastic pose at 37 seconds. from aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu Ecology without Nature November 12, 2010 Levi Bryant Hyperpost on Hyperobjects Levi has just published three magnificent posts. What luxury. This one is on hyperobjects, and it's a pretty huge down-payment on an emerging project: Levi and I are hoping we can work together on them in greater detail. I really like the swimming pool analogy:Morton’s hyperobjects are thus like our experience of a pool while swimming. Everywhere we are submersed within the pool, everywhere the co [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Archive Fire November 11, 2010 The New Ecology of War from feedproxy.google.com ANTHEM November 11, 2010 An object-oriented protest It is not every day you see British students trashing the Conservative Party headquarters in the heart of London. Watch the video on the Guardian website. Indeed, everyone (including the police) expected a happy-clappy march, where humans did the talking (chanting, shouting, singing), while the non-humans (placards, banners, flags) played a supporting role. While that [...] from anthem-group.net Larval Subjects November 11, 2010 Objet a and the Veil Over at Pagan Metaphysics, Paul has posted a couple of great quotes from Dennett’s Breaking the Spell. Hopefully he won’t mind if I reproduce his post here. Paul writes: I was reading through Dennett’s Breaking the Spell again yesterday and came across an endnote that raised a laugh. Dennett is reflecting on the value and [...] from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com Ecology without Nature November 11, 2010 Framed: An Essay on Edward Abbey My piece on Edward Abbey just came out in the rather lovely sparseness of Electronic Book Review. You'll see it's the first essay in which something like OOO starts to shine out, starting with the reference to Latour. from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 11, 2010 Hello Everything LA 12.1.10 Event will be livestreamed here and recorded too. from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Object-Oriented Philosophy November 11, 2010 received today Towards Speculative Realism. No sign of the other two books yet. You’ll now not be seeing much of me here for the next week or so. I’ll have plenty to report at the end of that period, however. from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com Larval Subjects November 10, 2010 Hyperobjects and OOO I recall, my final year as an undergrad, encountering Deleuze and Guattari’s What is Philosophy? for the very first time. This was the first text I managed to finally read by D&G. I had tried Difference and Repetition and the Logic of Sense, but at the time I could get no purchase on their work. [...] from larvalsubjects.wordpress.com ANTHEM November 10, 2010 Towards Speculative Realism Graham Harman’s new book of old essays and lectures has just been published under the title Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures, by Zero Books. Its publication is a proper ANTHEM event, in the sense that this book deals with both actor-network theory and Heidegger, as well as Harman’s own attempt to build on both, [...] from anthem-group.net Critical Animal November 10, 2010 How states raise revenues: something of a rant. I haven't posted in a while. October was a rough month, and then I got sick. Also, once I fall out of the habit of posting, it is hard to get myself back into it.Recently my fiance got a speeding ticket. In general, most speeding tickets annoy me. They tend to be rather obvious attempts to raise revenue, rather than promote any sort of general welfare. But, whatever, we paid the absurd $245 fine. [...] from criticalanimal.blogspot.com Object-Oriented Philosophy November 10, 2010 O Objeto Quádruplo Looks like a done deal for O Objeto Quádruplo to appear in Portuguese, in Brazil. (This is a different translator and publisher from the one doing Prince of Networks.) More details to be posted here once the contract is officially signed, which I would estimate in about early December. from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com Pagan Metaphysics November 10, 2010 Eumerdification I was reading through Dennett’s Breaking the Spell again yesterday and came across an endnote that raised a laugh. Dennett is reflecting on the value and uses of incomprehensibility, mystification and paradox in religion, specifically as mechanisms for bedazzling the mind (effective marketing strategies or tools of transmission), when he notes in a side comment his first secular experience of this [...] from paganmetaphysics.blogspot.com Archive Fire November 09, 2010 The Story of Electronics from feedproxy.google.com Object-Oriented Philosophy November 09, 2010 more translations? Into Portuguese. Sounds likely. from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com Object-Oriented Philosophy November 09, 2010 the Latour “hut” He’s had this place for a number of years and has written most of his recent books there. From Paris you have to take the TGV several hours south from the Gare de Lyon, headed towards Clermont-Ferrand. I was there in summertime. They have a hammock in front and I rested there for several hours. [...] from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com Object-Oriented Philosophy November 09, 2010 Gunga Jay revisited Apparently young Beatrice read and enjoyed my recent Gunga Jay post. I think she was 5 or 6 at tbe time of transforming me into Gunga Jay (she’s the inventor of the name, not just of the costume), so she has a very good memory if that’s still fresh in her mind. One of my [...] from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com Object-Oriented Philosophy November 09, 2010 great discussion With Cairo artist Malak Helmy, on The Quadruple Object, which she read in final draft form. Many of my best conversations are with artists these days. Speaking of The Quadruple Object, I’m working on the second set of proofs tonight as well. And I’m liking the book a lot, which is rarely the case at [...] from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com Object-Oriented Philosophy November 09, 2010 another Edinburgh book dealing with Meillassoux In May 2011 (two months before my book), Edinburgh will publish Difficult Atheism by Christopher Watkin. He will be addressing Meillassoux’s views on God, and in fact I believe Watkin may even have consulted the ENS microfilm of L’Inexistence divine, which if true means he’ll beat me by a couple of months as the first [...] from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com Object-Oriented Philosophy November 09, 2010 release date on Meillassoux book The schedule release date is even better than I thought: July 2011, not September. The cover was already designed quite a long time ago, but I can’t post it here until the jacket copy is written and Edinburgh’s marketing people are ready for it to go out into the world. What I can say (and [...] from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com Ecology without Nature November 09, 2010 Hyperobjects are Nonlocal In a previous post I argued that hyperobjects are viscous—they adhere to you no matter how hard to try to pull away, rendering ironic distance obsolete. Now I'll argue that they are also nonlocal. That is, hyperobjects are massively distributed in time and space such that any particular (local) manifestation never reveals the totality of the hyperobject. When you feel raindrops falling on your h [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ian Bogost November 08, 2010 A Slow Year Limited Editions Let me know if you want one. — A Slow Year is about to ship, and I'll be posting information about it in the very near future. As I've mentioned before, the game will be released in two editions, both packaged as unusual books of poetry: a Windows/Mac edition running in a custom emulator, and a numbered, signed Atari cartridge edition, limited to 25. The general edition is packaged as a pape [...] from www.bogost.com Archive Fire November 08, 2010 Designing the Political from feedproxy.google.com Ecology without Nature November 08, 2010 London Underwater The fabulous Museum of London (dig those medieval peasant shoes!) is hosting an exhibition of “postcards from the future.” There's a good piece on it (with a slide show) on the Huffington Post. Given the expected rise in sea levels the image I've selected doesn't seem too unrealistic. Parts of London such as Parsons Green are several feet below sea level. from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Algorithm and Contingency November 08, 2010 The logic of the Net hmmm.. at the moment, my website statistics have flown of the chart. My post on the worlds oldest jokes has reached number five on reddit.com and I’m getting about 100 people visiting it, roughly every 10 minutes. I’m sure it’ll cope. It’s just odd how the attention economy works isn’t it? from robertjackson.info Object-Oriented Philosophy November 08, 2010 L’Objet quadruple now available From AMAZON.FR from doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com Ecology without Nature November 07, 2010 Object-Oriented Relativity I believe I've figured out a way in which special relativity talks about object withdrawal a la OOO. You'll have to wait until I do my talk at Rice to get hold of anything, in particular because I'm going to need to do some tweaking of the basic hypothesis to get it just right.For now though, it looks like my talk will be about contemporary physical theories as non-atomist. It's going to be called [...] from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Ecology without Nature November 07, 2010 Why Aristotle and Poetry? Someone asked me why I'd mentioned recently that Aristotle had led me back to poetry. It's elementary, really. I'm holding this poem in my hand—I'm holding a substance. Isn't that amazing? from ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com Algorithm and Contingency November 07, 2010 The Spectre of Compositionism Tim Morton’s stormed in, highlighting the sneering menace of ‘going meta’. Firstly, I’ll cite two agreeable texts, that I want to cover before I launch into where I think the aesthetic issue creeps in. Heres Graham from the last chapter of Guerilla Metaphysics; he sets up the strategy for why philosophy should, not so much oppose [...] from robertjackson.info Speculative Heresy November 07, 2010 Collapse, Vol. III Word from Urbanomic that Volume III of Collapse has sold out and is now available for free online. It includes the much-cited original Speculative Realism conference. Find it here: http://www.urbanomic.com/pub_collapse3.php Filed under: Uncategorized from speculativeheresy.wordpress.com Algorithm and Contingency November 07, 2010 Someone really likes Hands and Fractals (and Final Cut Pro) And you can find the GIF here from robertjackson.info Archive Fire November 06, 2010 Puppets, Puppet Masters and Closet Liberations from feedproxy.google.com Algorithm and Contingency November 06, 2010 The Worlds ‘Oldest’ Human Jokes Just thinking about Graham’s Question of the Day: ‘Who invented jokes and why?’ About two years ago the University of Wolverhampton discovered the ten oldest human jokes starting from the Sumerian age (1900BC) to 4th Century AD). Here they are; 1. Something which has never occurred since time immemorial: a young woman did not fart [...] from robertjackson.info Naught Thought November 06, 2010 Days in the Dark The second week of January is shaping up to be a deluge of darknesses: January 12th – Dark Materialism January 13th -Black Metal Theory II – Melancology January 14th – Speculative Medievalisms January 15th – Decay Culture I will be speaking at the last three – it should be an interesting week in London. from naughtthought.wordpress.com

A Slow Year
Game Poems by Ian Bogost

About the game

Disruptive. I was reminded of a line from a book about the most important word in the english language ... "huac" from Barfield's//http://davidlavery.net/barfield/.... the most important word in the English Language? Well, we had sure made out that Chaos was intrinsic before Order could be extracted from it; but THE most important word? I wondered. Here. Another? Yes. Two froth of white heaven, an inch curled around my moustache. And you are from...