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Category Archives: Philosophy

And speaking of Speculation Editors…

12-Oct-11

HERE is an interview with Paul Ennis on fractured politics with Kris Coffield. Worth checking out for those intrigued about Speculative Realism from a philosopher who has just received his PhD. My favourite bit; “ I found myself attending conferences that I no longer dreaded sitting through” Amen to that.

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.  

Release the objects

13-Sep-11

Most of you know the news – but for those unaware, Levi Bryant’s long-awaited book The Democracy of Objects has now been released on the Open Humanites Press website. You can read it directly on the website HTML stylee – or if you’re like me and abhor reading complex texts on a screen, you can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Eco-Tone Schedule

24-Jun-11

For those who are attending/thinking of attending/can’t attend but what to know whats going on. Eco-tone: Object Space Entanglements Monday 27 June 2011 17.00-19.00 Bonington Atrium/Lecture Theatre, Nottingham Trent University David Reid Eco-tone Jonathan P Watts [Critical Writing for Art & Design, Royal College of Art] England and the Octopus Calendar Variations Allan Kaprow (1927 – 2006) [...]

Speculative Realism and the Question of Metaphysics

01-Jun-11

Paul Ennis has announced details for a SR/OOO workshop entitled Speculative Realism and the Question of Metaphysics, at the The 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas. I’ve signed up and thankfully its happening in July 2012, so plenty of time to make sure I’m not hideously out of depth.

Platform Politics: A more expository post

17-May-11

Building on from my previous post on the event: here are some more detailed points now that I’ve had a few days to consider the results of the conference. 1.) Given that all of the papers were of an exceptionally high standard in their respective fields, (critical theory, software studies, sociology, censorship law, emancipatory politics, [...]

EcoTone Abstract

15-May-11

I had been penning an abstract for EcoTone, but didn’t realise Ennis and Caplan had their own abstracts written. So here is mine. (As a caveat – thanks to Geoff Cox for leading me to Laporte’s book in our previous paper) The Agency of Waste: Purification and Procedure. Robert Jackson In the publication ‘History of [...]

EcoTone 1: Object, Space and Entanglements

14-May-11

Along with a Mr (soon to be Dr) Paul Ennis, Kevin Love (NTU) and a Mr Paul Caplan (Birkbeck), I’ve been invited to give a talk at Nottingham Trent University on the 28th June for an event entitled EcoTone 1: Object Space and Entanglements. It’ll be on environment, artistic, philosophical intertwining issues, with our panel leaning towards [...]