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Syntax trumps Semantics. Badiou and recursiveness

15-Feb-12

Here’s a good post from Graham on Badiou. This is the weird thing about Badiou that I can’t get my head around. Knowing what I’m going to say next will probably provoke a ‘misreading’ of some sort. I’ll have to be brief and hence, woefully disingenuous (despite what I say, I have deep respect for [...]

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Transmediale stuff

02-Feb-12

Ok – it’s time that I updated everyone on the last two days. So transmediale is going well. There’s a nice vibe going on, as I expected everyone is in good sprits and enjoying the festival events. There are A LOT of people here, pretty much 1000 maybe even 2000+ are expected over the course [...]

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Busy day

21-Jan-12

So yeah – what a day. Left from Devon at roughly 4.30a.m (yeah I’m a bit tired), and visited Graham Harman’s seminar at Goldsmiths with the Centre for Research Architecture. It was really weird to see Graham cover his metaphysical position in depth at the morning seminar and then for the afternoon session – give [...]

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The Beholding of Objects: The Crisis of the Discrete

29-Sep-11

Presented yesterday at ReWire (28th Sept). The PDF is HERE Video Presentation below – as usual its a manual Quicktime movie – so click the mouse to move forward, or use your arrow keys. There is a video near the end.  

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Paul Caplan on David Berry’s The Philosophy of Software

05-Sep-11

His brief thoughts HERE. Well worth a look. Here are his final thoughts concerning the lack of object oriented-ness in Berry’s new book. “Berry’s philosophy is certainly object-centred but it is not object-oriented in the sense in which I am seeking to use Harman’s quadruple object. For Berry objects do not exceed their relations. They [...]

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Paul Ennis makes my Bank Holiday weekend.

28-Aug-11

Here’s why. At last, a whole three day conference entirely devoted to Speculative Realism and aesthetics. And the proceedings will be published in a special issue of Speculations. Hurrah!   CALL FOR PAPERS Aesthetics in the 21st Century University of Basel September 13-15, 2012   Confirmed Speakers Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, N. Katherine Hayles [...]

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Two points on Harman’s Review of Laruelle

17-Aug-11

Before we start, lets issue two caveats; I’m not a trained philosopher, yet I do read and comment on a lot of contemporary philosophy (how do I get away with it?) one could say I study a philosophy of art, perhaps technology even, but that’s as far as it goes. Neither have I read Philosophies [...]

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Initial thoughts on Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making

27-Jul-11

Here’s a few initial thoughts on Graham Harman’s latest; Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making, which I received on Monday. On Tuesday morning I received The Quadruple Object, which delighted and infuriated me at the same; (too many books to read!). I don’t tend to publicly offer my thoughts directly after finishing a book, (unless I’ve [...]

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Meillassoux book arrived this morning

25-Jul-11

It exists.

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Meillassoux book has been dispatched

22-Jul-11

Bit earlier than I thought for those expecting their copy. Amazon UK aren’t the most predicable of companies are they? Now that they’ve bought the book depository, I can’t imagine the situation will improve anytime soon.

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