Tag: art
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Field Notes from a Mass Hallucination: A Process Philosopher Goes Phishing for the World-Soul
I went to my first Phish concert on Saturday night at Dick’s in Denver. I came in peace, was torn to pieces and made whole again once or twice, and by the end concresced into someone new. I also did some anthroposophical research. I should explain. I don’t mean any ordinary sort of research, the…
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Art and Philosophy on The Meaning Code podcast with Karen Wong
I enjoyed this conversation immensely. Check out Karen’s art here.
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Motor Oil and Panpsychism: Dialoging with Artist Johnna Arnold
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The New School Panel asks if Philosophy still matters, and if so, what its good for.
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Science, Art, Religion: The Role of Speculative Philosophy in the Adventure of Rationality
I’ve just completed Isabelle Stengers‘ formidable but rewarding text, Thinking With Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts (2011). The final chapters concern the viability of Whitehead’s theology, specifically his articulation of the relationship between God and the World. Stengers’ asks the reader to go slowly while considering why a divine function became necessary…
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Whitehead: Aesthetics as First Philosophy
I’ve jumped from Meillassoux‘s After Finitude to reading Steven Shaviro‘s book on Whitehead, Kant, and Deleuze Without Criteria (2009). A few thoughts have occured to me… Whitehead’s philosophy of organism possesses an immunity to post-Kantian skepticism, since it arises out of a radically embodied characterization of sensory experience. Empiricism, for Whitehead, does not mean paying…
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