FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Tag: ecology
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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Philosophy, society, politics and the decline of America
Jason/Immanence Transcendence brought my attention to this critique of Graham Harman‘s Object-Oriented Ontology. The critique, written by Alexander Galloway, complains that OOO’s lack of a political dimension makes it a…
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“black bloc” anarchists strike again…
Last fall, I expressed my frustrations with the “black bloc” tactics of some anarchists after attending the otherwise successful General Strike in Oakland (HERE and HERE). Now they are at…
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The Americosmos by Darrin Drda
Below is a mandalic depiction of the shadow side of the American way of life, drawn by my friend Darrin Drda, author of The Four Global Truths: Awakening to the…
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Tilting at windmill materialism: Towards an Ontology of Organism (OoO)
Adam at Knowledge-Ecology has posted some reflections on the issues at stake in the confrontation between philosophical realism and philosophical materialism. Levi Bryant (Larval Subjects) and Michael (Archive-Fire) place their…
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On Corporate and Creaturely Personhood
Adam at Knowledge-Ecology has posted a reflection on the need for an object-oriented ecology (what’d I’d call an ecological ontology, or, following Whitehead, a philosophy of organism). Adam agrees…
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Integral Imaginings: Essays on Earth, Soul, and Spirit
The essays in this are all available free on my blog, but in an effort to preserve library ecologies (and design a sweet cover!)… ——————————————————————— Integral Imaginings cover astrophotography by…
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Bruno Latour – “Waiting for Gaia: composing a common world through political art”
Via Knowledge-Ecology, who linked to a barely audible mp3 of Latour’s recent talk at the French Institute in the UK recorded by Tim Morton. Thanks for the guerrilla media effort, Tim!…
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research papers for graduate courses on Ernst Cassirer and Jean Gebser, and Christianity and Ecology
I’m enrolled in two courses this semester here at CIIS. The first is taught by Prof. Eric Weiss; the second by Prof. Jacob Sherman. We’re well into the second week…
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Knowledge-Ecology on Alphonso Lingis: Cosmopolitical Selfhood and Ecology
Adam has posted a brilliant reflection on A. Lingis’ words about words. A few highlights: “…words act as objects in the world and the manner by which they act is ecological. Words…
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Notes on the Occupation from the Mountaintop
I walked to the top of Grand View Park here in the Sunset district of San Francisco. I wanted to clear my head by ascending to the mountaintop, where place…
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The Ethics and Esotericism of Eating
Bourdain says the analogy between animal and human flesh (PETA: “you eat cow, eh? so would you eat human meat, too?”) is the last irrational wail of the animal rights…
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Knowledge Ecology on an Object-Oriented Ecology, and some reflections on substance
Adam Robbert over at Knowledge-Ecology has posted a great piece on his conception of an object-oriented ecology. He draws primarily from Graham Harman, Tim Morton, and Isabelle Stengers. I’m re-posting…
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Bifurcations between Bergson and Einstein
Thanks to Adam for bringing this video to my attention. Bruno Latour speaks above about how contemporary philosophy should re-interpret the verdict of the 1922 exchange between the metaphysician Henri…
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Ethopoiesis and Eternity
Following up on my post and Sam’s and Adam’s comments on Monday and Tuesday (6/13-15), Adam sent me a one word text message: ‘Ethopoiesis’ I have a few thoughts on…
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Thinking etho-ecology with Stengers and Whitehead
I’ve been reading Stengers’ recently translated book Thinking with Whitehead (2011) with an eye to developing an eco-ontology, or ecological realism. Adam and I are still in the process of searching…
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Towards an Eco-Ontology
Adam over at Knowledge Ecology has posted about the need for a pluralistic ontology in thinking the differences between nature and culture. I’ve copied my response to him below: ———————————————…
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Ecology of Mind, Economy of Play, Energy of Delight
Meaning is infinite because language is indefinitely recursive, because “world” is a word, such that “word” has no world to refer to. Words refer only to themselves, except Yours, your…
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Post-Secular Spirituality
Michael over at Archive Fire recently linked to a published essay by a friend and former colleague at CIIS, Annick Hedlund-de Witt. Annick researches the way changing world-views in America and Europe stand to…
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From Means to Ends, From Work to Play, From Number to Pneuma
When was the day that money became an idol instead of an instrument? Was it August 15, 1971, when Nixon shocked the world by erasing the Gold Standard, thereby unilaterally making…
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Christianity and Ecology: Response to Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck’s segment on Christianity and the environmentalist movement. My response:
