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Category Archives: Work-Blog

Performing Objects

09-May-13

I’m deliberately trying to not exhaust myself out with commitments this year, as I want to nail a couple of projects that are in the pipeline (including two book publications) and finally finish a draft of my mammoth thesis. However I have been invited to do a paper in Falmouth in October for a panel [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Exeter Talk PDF: Anti-Anthropocentrism: Politics, Art and Aesthetics beyond Thought.

23-Mar-13

Ok here is the talk I gave at Exeter this week. It’s the same deal – the PDF is HERE , but I’ve pasted the text underneath for those who prefer to read on phones, etc. The talk won’t make too much sense without the slides, so here is the movable mov. file too. (give [...]

What our Solar System looks like from a “non-fixed,” view of the sun

04-Mar-13

Wow.

Dark Matter may not exist

27-Feb-13

Although my time is stretched, in the coming days: I’m going to blog some preliminary thoughts about the workings of an ontology where “Time” (and emphasise the ‘T’) does not exist. Would we miss anything? What kind of ontology would eliminate the need for it? Moreover what would it mean that an entity was never [...]

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 [...]

Melting Chocolate Bunny

09-Jan-13

Not sure why I’m sharing this – I just think its expertly filmed and quite haunting.

Algorithms and Control

09-Jan-13

I have a new Furtherfield article online on the formal structure of algorithms and their use of control. It can be found HERE. oh yeah, and Happy New Year.

Gold is weird

10-Dec-12

Also, when I’m older I want to look like this guy.