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Transtechnology Research Public Dialogues 2013: At the Interlude Between Body, Artifact and Discourse

13-Apr-13

The Transtechnology Research Group have a CFP out. All the blurb is HERE. I’ve pasted the short version below. Transtechnology Research Public Dialogues 2013: At the Interlude between Body, Artifact and Discourse 12-14 July 2013, Transtechnology Research, Plymouth University  Transtechnology Research is pleased to invite paper submissions and panel participation for dialogues at the Interlude between [...]

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Nice comment from Paletten

18-Oct-12

The author Fredrik Österblom got in contact and kindly sent me the article in question. It’s in Paletten issue 3: 2012 #289; p.29 (Graham also emailed me about this). UPDATED: (My translation was awful, so addressing the comments below and from Fredrick’s email, I’ve put their translations in) ; “In recent years, an object-oriented movement [...]

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11 Things I’ve learned from Thinking the Absolute

02-Jul-12

So I got back from the Liverpool ‘Thinking the Absolute’ conference yesterday. It was very well organised, and well done to Steven, Patrice and Katherine for all the hard work. I’ve had to catch up on a ridiculous amount of work as a result  - but as I tend to do, I’ve discrete-ised my thoughts on [...]

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Homemade Philosophy: Bogost’s Carpentry and Greenberg

31-May-12

There’s a link there. There really is. Ok, granted Bogost’s Carpentry (as Bogost defines it in Alien Phenomenology and elsewhere) isn’t aesthetics per se – it’s more of an ontographic tool implemented for weaselling out and characterising the diversity of being. He’s right to differentiate carpentry from aesthetics in the broader sense: ‘doing’ carpentry by [...]

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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.

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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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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 [...]

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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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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) [...]

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