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The Fourfold of Speculative Realism (a work in progress – UPDATED)

09-Apr-13

  [UPDATED - after an illuminating Twitter discussion with Pete Wolfendale and Shane Denson, I've updated the post to include their necessary and helpful contributions. Warning - its 3130 words or so.] So I’ve been pretty rubbish at blogging lately – you can blame fatigue / Speculations work /  extra research for that and a [...]

Things Grasped by Machines

15-Jan-13

Hegel’s definition of absolute knowledge in the form of Logic emerges as the following: Logic is the ability to grasp things in thought. “Grasp” then, is quite a good word. When we deduce, understand a thought or a concept, we grab it, pick it up, seize it, hold it, turn it into something that has [...]

Why not buy a clock which counts down your life?

27-Jul-12

Forget those clocks which count down the day, or tell you the actual time – buy a life clock? You can get one HERE. Yes its a bit morbid – but then again, what have you got to be afraid of? Warning – the hands only go round once and if it’s slow you may not [...]

Weather and Mood: A Query

25-Jul-12

So in the UK, we’re often prone to moaning about the weather. Sometimes its with good reason; sometimes you really do get all four seasons in one day, well in Devon anyway. The summer of 2012 has been one of pulverising and consistent rain, but today has been the hottest day of the year.  So [...]

Where I discuss the New Aesthetic again…

14-Jul-12

So I haven’t really bothered following up the responses to my Furtherfield article earlier this year, where I, kind of, lamented The New Aesthetic. That was in the middle of April. It’s been 3 months since then and a few things have happened. First of all, James Bridle, the linchpin of the whole thing, shut down the [...]

Thoughts on the HMRC app

29-May-12

Most of those whom I’ve met regularly, know that I work full time to pay the bills (most of my research is done in my spare time and conference attendance is usually dictated by holidays), but often most aren’t exactly sure, what I do. Well I don’t talk about it that much, because I tend [...]

Generosity in Academia

04-Mar-12

One of the more important pieces of advice that I had been given by my PhD supervisor concerns the following; There must always be room for generosity in academic debate with everyone at every stage of your career. Those of you who work in such areas will know what I’m on about. Ill feeling and [...]

Lightning Sculpture

01-Mar-12

What can I say? I like what I like! These are known as lightning sculpture, using a well known effect called the Lichtenberg figure. Marks which are left by branching electric discharges on material surfaces. These sculptures are created by injecting a block of polished acrylic with a beam of high speed electrons from a 5 [...]

The longest URL for my blog

05-Feb-12

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I hope you like my new book on Analytic Philosophy

25-Jan-12

It’s called “How to be concise and get straight to the point using the minimum of diminutive words necessary to convey your meaning as clearly as possible without overly long descriptions and explanations.” *Joke* by the way. I love analytic philosophy.