“Here Comes Everything” Speculative Realism Panel summary (via...
Adam Robbert has written a nice summary of the panel discussion last week (4/8) on Speculative Realism. I’ve pasted it below. For the audio from the event, click HERE. Here are a few reflections on...
View ArticleTowards a Christological Realism: Thinking the Correlation with Teilhard and...
Preface Quentin Meillassoux‘s lucid text, After Finitude (2008), comes at a time when Continental philosophy finds itself engaging more closely with what might be called “poetico-religious” modes of...
View ArticleMichael Persinger and the Extended Mind
I’d like to follow up on my recent post about Michael Persinger’s research on the non-local electromagnetic aspects of consciousness. There is a growing contingent of cognitive scientists taking what...
View ArticleIntuitive Thinking vs. Reflective Thought: Harman on Meillassoux
I’ve just read Graham Harman‘s essay for continent. entitled “Meillassoux’s Virtual Future” (2011). As usual, it is primarily Harman’s style of philosophizing that really excites me. I am fascinated by...
View ArticleThe Poetics of Copernican Cosmology
Image via Wikipedia In his cosmographic study of the Copernican Revolution,The Poetic Structure of the World (1987), Fernand Hallyn entirely re-envisions the foundations of modern science. Instead of...
View ArticleIn Defense of Wonder: A response to Naught Thought on Whitehead’s Philosophy...
I cannot, without much hesitation, identify myself as either a “prickly” or a “gooey” philosopher. It depends on who my interlocutors are. If I am in a philosophical conversation with, say, a...
View ArticleIntegrating Panpsychism and Eliminativism in Processual Panentheism
I’ve just watched a good chunk of Shaviro’s lecture at OOOIII. I agree with his premise concerning the fork in the philosophical road between eliminativism and panexperientialism created by speculative...
View ArticleAfter Finitude and Fideism comes Speculative Christianity?
Quetin Meillassoux is an important philosopher, according to Graham Harman, “not from the fact that he is plausibly right about so many things, but because his philosophy offers such a treasury of bold...
View ArticleThe Eternal Form of Philosophy (a response to Archive Fire)
Michael/Archive Fire has just written a gracious and astute response to my recent comment about Whitehead’s reformed Platonism. He has made me aware of the fact that my referring to Whitehead or to...
View ArticleAlexander Bard on Network Metaphysics
I really dig Alexander Bard’s “network-dynamic persepective.” Geometrogenesis is also extremely relevant to my research on Whitehead’s and Rudolf Steiner’s ether theories (the former articulated an...
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