FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Bruno Latour
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The Anthropocene: End Times/New Age
Sean Kelly and I delivered this a few weeks ago at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA at our philosophy program’s annual retreat.
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Physicalism and Its Discontents: A Study in Whitehead’s Panexperientialist Alternative [draft]
UPDATE: Here is a PDF of the final draft accepted for publication under the revised title “The Varieties of Physicalist Ontology: A Study in Whitehead’s Process-Relational Alternative.” I’ve just finished…
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Bruno Latour, Copernican Revolution, Daniel Dennett, Darwin, David Chalmers, Descartes, Evan Thompson, Extended Mind, Francisco Varela, Galileo, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Hume, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Levi Bryant, Modern Philosophy, Paul Churchland, Plato, poetry, Ray Brassier, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, speculative realism, William James -
EcoCiv podcast on Whitehead, Marx, and Ecological Civilization
Andrew Schwartz and I discussed Marx and Whitehead last week. Have a listen.
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Whitehead and Marx: A Cosmopolitical Approach to Ecological Civilization
Below is a recording of my talk (a video first, then audio only that includes the discussion afterwards). I’ve also included an extended draft of some notes I took to…
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Time and Experience in Physics and Philosophy [draft]
Below is the introduction of paper I presented at a conference in L’aquila, Italy in April 2019. The conference aimed to revisit important philosophical issues related to the famous 1922…
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“Electrons Don’t Think” by Sabine Hossenfelder
The following is a comment I posted on the physicist and blogger Sabine Hossenfelder’s blog Backreaction to a post titled “Electrons Don’t Think.” https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/electrons-dont-think.html Hi Sabine. I discovered your blog…
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Catherine Keller: The Cosmopolitical Entanglements of Process-Relational Theology
In what follows, I offer some reflections on the feminist process theologian Catherine Keller’s book Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement (2015). Keller poetically folds her refreshingly…
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Politics and Pluralism in the Anthropocene
Notes from a talk I gave at CIIS this past March titled “Politics and Pluralism in the Anthropocene” Here’s the video of the whole panel: https://youtu.be/sgoAZV4VVsc Foucault on Hegel: “[T]ruly…
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Pluto and the Underworld of Scientific Knowledge Production
A Slovakian visual artist, András Cséfalvay, recently invited me to submit a video for inclusion in his upcoming exhibition in Prague focused on the cultural significance of Pluto (my video…
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Whitehead’s Way Beyond Postmodernism
Based on this paper delivered at the 2015 International Whitehead Conference.
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Lectures on Timothy Morton’s “Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People”
Process and Difference in the Pluriverse (opening lecture) My Spring course at CIIS.edu finishes up this week with a set of modules on Timothy Morton’s book Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People…
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Bruno Latour, Catherine Keller, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Descartes, Donna Haraway, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, Evan Thompson, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, poetry, politics, reason, Religion, Richard Tarnas, Schelling, Sean Kelly, speculative realism, Timothy Morton, William James -
Bruno Latour’s “Facing Gaia”
I’m sharing two lectures recorded for my online course this semester, Process and Difference in the Pluriverse. In these two modules, we are studying Latour’s recently translated book Facing Gaia.…
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Process & Difference in the Pluriverse, an online course at CIIS.edu
A trailer for my course being offered this Spring at CIIS.edu. PARP 6135 Process and Difference in the Pluriverse will explore the ethical, social, political, and ecological implications of process-relational philosophy.…
Alfred North Whitehead, Bruno Latour, Catherine Keller, Darwin, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, politics, race, reason, Religion, Simon Critchley, speculative realism, Timothy Morton, William James -
Bruno Latour’s Gaian Political Aesthetics
Excerpted from Waiting for Gaia. “…it became possible for scholars to follow with the same instruments that allow us to trace the production of science (search engines, scientometrics and bibliometric…
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“What if we talked politics a little?” By Bruno Latour
“If we are to accomplish the impossible feat of (re)composing a group from a multiplicity or, equally impossible, making a plurality obey a common order, it is necessary above all…
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Thinking Law, Politics, and other Modes of Existence with Bruno Latour
Below I’ve pasted a couple of excerpts from Latour’s work on politics and law. “Why do we regret that politicians ‘don’t tell the truth’? Why do we demand that they…
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Facing Gaia with Bruno Latour
“…there is nothing about the Earth as Earth that we don’t know through the disciplines, instruments, mediations, and expansion of scientific networks: its size, its composition, its long history and…
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The Ecology of Capitalism
This post is largely in response to this interview with the ecological Marxist John Bellamy Foster. Foster spends most of his time responding to criticisms of his work by Jason W.…
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Latour building on Whitehead’s critique of substance
In Latour’s words, Whitehead replaced the concept of substance with that of subsistence. I appreciate Latour’s insistence on the need for the creation of institutions that encourage and sustain themselves…
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War of the Worlds: Love and Strife in the Pluriverse
Another one for the ontological pluralism file. Delivered a few months back at the Cosmology of Love conference at CIIS.
