HERE, in the NY Times. The reputed Pollock painting on page 3 certainly looks genuine to me, but many questions have been raised.

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It's the Water Dragon year. Today is Tibetan New Year. I wonder what water dragons are like. I imagine them as gigantic surf or tidal waves. Dragons are like opium smoke, they curl inscrutably.

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The 41st Wordsworth Summer Conference Monday 30 July to Thursday 9 August 2012Forest Side Hotel, Grasmere, Cumbria, EnglandKeynote Lecturers:Stephen Behrendt, Jeff Cowton, Richard Cronin, Heather Glen, Bruce Graver, Anthony Harding,Kiyoshi Nishiyama, Judith Page, Lynda Pratt, John Strachan, Peter Swaab, Pamela Woof February update: John Burnside, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Pri [...]

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Call for Papers: Representing Animals in Irish Literature and CultureFrom the shape-shifters of the sagas and the simian Paddies of the nineteenth century to the Celtic Tiger of recent years, non-human animals have figured powerfully in portrayals of Irishness. These portrayals tell us a great deal about the ways discourses of animality construct the human, and often, the sub-human. Indeed, Ma [...]

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I don’t mean revising my interpretation, I mean that I’m literally rereading We Have Never Been Modern, and enjoying it now as ever. I always find new things on each rereading; it is extremely rich despite being concise. This isn’t the usual view, I know, but it gets my vote for the most important work [...]

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There has been some discussion by Michael Faris and Derek Mueller, as well as elsewhere on Twitter, regarding Geoff Sirc's book review essay (free PDF) in CCC. Part of the talk has been about Sirc taking a couple of these...

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May 7, 2012. HERE. Some object-oriented philosophy is on the program.

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Just as I’d been reflecting that my feminism had been in abeyance for several months, not gone so much as displaced by concerns about ecological degradation, peak oil, species extinction etc., along comes a major kick in the gut from the U.S. It has been a while since body politics and incursions into women’s reproductive rights have provoked a visceral reaction in me, but the news that Virginia i [...]

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Academia.edu just found this paper that might be by me, so its algorithm would have me believe:FRUIT-Strawberries and vision-Jim Wilson looks into the future with Tim Morton, the Albert Fisher Soh Fruit Grower of the Year 1998

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A trope is an algorithm, and more.

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Two very bright students have just failed to get in to study OOO with me at UC Davis. One tried for English Lit., the other for American Studies. I've taught about 500 graduate students and currently I'm supervising about 15 Ph.D.s, and have a 100% success rate with those scholars getting jobs. In other words I know what I'm doing. These applicants were awesome. But somehow what they did was not v [...]

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I think I just read the best writing on Rothko I think I've ever seen, in Jean-Luc Marion's book on saturated phenomena. It's truly brilliant. Why?I believe it's because of the intimacy required for a powerful philosophical engagement. The philosopher isn't prepared to take anything for granted. In particular, phenomenology has a remarkably strong track record in art and literature criticism.In an [...]

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Charisma among others means ‘a special magnetic charm or appeal’ according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and it comes from the Greek kharisma, ‘divine favour’ or ‘gift,’ from kharizesthai, ‘to favour,’ which comes from kharis, ‘grace’ or ‘favour.’ And now it is also the name of a new research network focusing on interdiscipli [...]

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Click HERE to read, and wait a few paragraphs.

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The problem with premature clarity in intellectual life is that there’s only way to attain quick clarity: namely, by taking sides in an already existing trench war. For example, you can attain a great deal of clarity, and win many debates about evolution, simply by reading 2 or 3 books by Richard Dawkins and aggressively [...]

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The phrase of the day comes from Tom at Plastic Bodies, in a post you can read HERE concerning the Gary Gutting article of yesterday. This is my favorite part: “…there’s a certain affected casualness that permeates a lot of analytic writing…” That’s brilliantly put, and he’s exactly right. I still want to defend Gutting [...]

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One on a religious studies panel; the other at an anthropology conference. Stay tuned.

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Surely some of the best art I’ve come across in a few weeks. The video is by David Parker who has a nice website HERE. Filed under: Aesthetics Tagged: David Parker

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Enemies of ANT should beware of their opponents’ collective memory: “Ants remember their enemy’s scent.” Ant colonies – one of nature’s most ancient and efficient societies – are able to form a “collective memory” of their enemies, say scientists. When one ant fights with an intruder from another colony it retains that enemy’s odour: pass [...]

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Isabelle Stengers visits Halifax, Canada for a series of conversations as part of the “To See Where it Takes Us” series during March 5-9, 2012. Her keynote will be streamed live. Professor Stengers’ keynote address will examine sciences and the consequences of what has been called progress. Is it possible to reclaim modern practices, to [...]

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...failed by a massive majority of the faculty. The confidence vote passed, by a fairly large majority. The police were condemned by a supermassive majority.

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HERE. I was asked to expand a bit on some of my transmediale remarks, and so I will. March 1.

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1. One of the stupidest phrases of 1990′s America (it may have started in the late 1980′s) was “happy campers.” You couldn’t just tell a group of people that they looked happy, you had to tell them they looked like “happy campers.” Not sure if that was triggered by a line in a film, or [...]

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Full details are HERE. I have copied the speakers and their descriptions below, which include such notables as Steven Shaviro and Isabelle Stengers. I’m very sorry to miss this — if anyone happens to read this blog and attends the conference I would love to hear how things go. Didier Debaise A Speculative Approach to [...]

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Rarely do I ever come across a statement that holds the exact opposite position of my own. Surely disagreements arise but rarely on the level of being diametrically opposed. Then I came across THIS article and interview with presidential candidate Rick Santorum yesterday. From the article: Rick Santorum on Sunday condemned what he called President [...]

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Here’s the latest literary virus spread by my former profession, sportswriting: “Jeremy Lin’s 25.8 ppg, and the Knicks’ 5-1 record at home since he’s been a starter, have breathed life back into their fan base.” The old way to say this would have been simply “breathed life back into their fans.” But then this “fan [...]

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Today my grad class will be discussing the "Theorizing the Digital Humanities" section of Debates in the Digital Humanities featuring essays by Stephen Ramsay and Geoffrey Rockwell, Johanna Drucker, Jamie "Skye" Bianco, and Willard McCarty, as well as some republished...

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In The Stone in the NY Times, HERE. As a newspaper article, it’s a useful overview of the analytic/continental divide. And it tries to be fairly balanced, until the concluding sentence appears: “The continental-analytic gap will begin to be bridged only when seminal thinkers of the Continent begin to write more clearly.” So, it’s all [...]

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This is a very brief post to point people in the direction of a few other posts that I’ve enjoyed and commented upon (at length). I increasingly find myself using other people’s blog’s comment sections in the way many people use their own blogs, to expound and develop upon thoughts and topics that other people [...]

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A majestic thirty four minute animated film from Incubate Pictures.  This is undoubtedly the most concise introduction to peak oil and the limits of growth I have ever come across.  Beautifully clear and terrifying. 

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There's been a little back and forth on the issue of non-tenure track faculty and Michael Berube's (MLA President) recent statements. First of all, let me say that I fully support Berube's efforts to improve adjunct working conditions (specifically pay)....

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An update on my next book — I talked to my publisher this week and got news that Alien Phenomenology is scheduled to land in the warehouse by March 7. It should be shipping to booksellers immediately thereafter. If you preorder from Amazon.com, you'll see it ship out that very week. While I can't make any promises, sometimes these dates move up thanks to happy accident, so it might even beco [...]

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This image comes from a very deep Chandra observation of the Tycho supernova remnant. Low-energy X-rays (red) in the image show expanding debris from the supernova explosion and high energy X-rays (blue) show the blast wave, a shell of extremely energetic electrons. These high-energy X-rays show a pattern of X-ray "stripes" never previous [...]

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Alberto Toscano’s forthcoming lecture at Simon Fraser University on 6 March 2012, among others deploying Latour’s concept of the ‘panorama:’ Capitalism and Panorama: Staging Totality in Social Theory and Art Can, or should, social theory try to ’see it whole’? This paper addresses the representation of social totality along theoretical, political and aesthetic axes. It [... [...]

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I’m truly humbled by this quasi-review of The Democracy of Objects. I don’t know that my book can live up to this sort of hype, though it’s certainly nice to hear.

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My paper for this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, coming up next month in Boston, will focus on the two films that got a lot of side-by-side attention at last year’s Cannes festival, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Since a few of my favorite bloggers have [...] Related posts:Malick vs. von Trier @ Cannes cinema, [...]

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For Joe Hughes Today one of my students was kind enough to send this photograph of my lecture notes on Descartes and the project of Modernity: A Model of Mind: Under my interpretation, Descartes invents an entirely new form of epistemological inquiry that I refer to as self-reflexive analysis. Where premodern thought held that we [...]

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“What does it mean that we have invented a way to destroy all life on Earth? Nothing much. We have dreamed this as an escape from the contemplation of our own individual deaths. We have made an emblem to serve as the mirror-image of a discarded immortality. Like demented dictators we swoon at the thought [...]

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In the video below filmmaker Oliver Stone and prominent intellectual and activist Tariq Ali engage in a fascinating discussion on U.S history, culture and foreign affairs in front of an audience at the New York Public Library on January 1, 2012.  From the New York Pubic Library: ON HISTORY - Pakistani writer and filmmaker TARIQ ALI and film director OLIVER STONE will continue their [...]

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Cathy Davidson provocatively suggests that "If we (profs, teachers) can be replaced by a computer screen, we should be." The emphasis there is on the if. Needless to day, computer-driven models of instruction are becoming increasingly popular. My daughter received...

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Me on NPR's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane — I've had a chance to be on a number of different radio programs, both national and local. I really like doing radio, particularly longer programs on NPR and CBC since the additional time really allows more sustained exploration of a topic. It's also particularly fun and weird to be on a show you've listened to extensively. I did NPR's Talk of t [...]

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Michael at Archive Fire responds to my previous post HERE. Our ongoing dialogue has now moved beyond the ontological issue of withdrawal in object-oriented philosophies and onto distinguishing between different types of relations (causal and epistemic) and how these distinctions might impact our reasoning about ontology. These exchanges are practically becoming a regularly scheduled part [...]

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Those familiar with my work and who have expressed criticisms of object-oriented ontology will, no doubt, be amused by the following dream that I today suffered and see in it confirmation of just why object-oriented ontology’s posthumanism is potentially dangerous. Today, after a satisfying lunch and as I indulged in my afternoon meditation– er nap [...]

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Here’s a good post from Graham on Badiou. This is the weird thing about Badiou that I can’t get my head around. Knowing what I’m going to say next will probably provoke a ‘misreading’ of some sort. I’ll have to be brief and hence, woefully disingenuous (despite what I say, I have deep respect for [...]

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Adam Robbert has a new post up (here) responding to Levi Bryant’s recent comments (here) on the differences between Bryant’s onticology and Graham Harman’s object-oriented philosophy.I urge those interested to go read Bryant’s post as he outlines several key questions that get right at the heart of what a realist metaphysics needs to address, while offering explicit statements about where he and H [...]

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Registration is now live for the ‘Thinking the Absolute: Philosophy, Speculation and the End of Religion’ conference, June 29 – 1 July, Liverpool Hope University, UK. Keynotes: Iain Hamilton Grant Catherine Malabou Ray Brassier Levi Bryant The call for papers remains open … Continue reading →

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I doubt I’ll get much of a response to this post, but here goes. Suppose you were designing a polis or city. What would your ideal city be like? In particular, what sorts of entities, human and nonhuman, would populate your city. Most importantly, what would be the mission and prime directives of your ideal [...]

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Adam Robberts posted the video below at Knowledge Ecology but I consider it relevant and interesting enough to share here as well. Jane Bennett’s recent work has had a strong influence on my own gathering thoughts. Particularly, I appreciate her call to pay more attention to the active, agentic and potent materiality of things. Her project of cultivating our sensitivities and sensibilities as vibr [...]

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