Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Levi and others in the OOO blog world have been discussing relations again, this time mainly in reference to Karen Barad’s statement that “relata do not precede their relations.” This is another one of those philosophical discussions that, for me, makes a difference to the work that I do, though not necessarily in the sense [...]
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Excerpts from A Pluralistic Universe: “Pragmatically interpreted, pluralism or the doctrine that [the universe] is many means only that the sundry parts of reality may be externally related. Everything you can think of, however vast or inclusive, has on the pluralistic view a genuinely “external” environment of some sort or amount. Things are “with” one another [...]
The following is the text of the talk I gave today at the Society for Cultural Anthropology biannual meeting. Together with the AnthroPlus talk I gave back in March titled “The Anthropological Thought” this constitutes the article I’ll be submitting to O-Zone (pending some revision to reconcile the two parts and fill in the gaps). [...]
Levi Bryant’s latest post argues for a materialist-oriented ontology (the cow says… MOO!) alongside Jane Bennett, Michael, and Ian Bogost. However, in spite of the fact that I agree with much of what Levi is arguing for (that all beings are material in some sense, and that there is no action at a distance), I’m [...]
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