Footnotes2Plato

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

Tag: individualism

  • “How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for our Times” by Servigne and Stevens

    “How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for our Times” by Servigne and Stevens

    Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens cover a lot of territory in this book. It is clear enough to anyone open to even consider reading it that climate change and other ecological catastrophes are already occurring and will only intensify. This book was published in French in 2015, well before the Covid-19 pandemic. While the origins of this virus…

  • Reading and Riffing on Murray Bookchin’s “The Ecology of Freedom”

    Reading and Riffing on Murray Bookchin’s “The Ecology of Freedom”

    Zooming out from the horror show of the upcoming presidential election, I decided to do some thinking with Bookchin about social contracts, participatory vs representative forms of democracy, and direct action as permanent revolution.

  • The (Cosmo)Political Ontology of Abortion

    A link to the Twitter tiff I mentioned: https://twitter.com/normonics/status/1090672373760692225

  • 2016 Presidential Election and Political Ontology

    J. Thomas Howe describes Whitehead’s process ontology as follows: Whitehead’s theory of experience is extremely complex, and its elucidation is the major task of Process and Reality. What is important for our purposes is the essentially social nature of all actual entities. “There is no entity, not even God, which requires nothing but itself in…

  • Alexander 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 alternative to Einstein’s theory of relativity based on an “ether of events”; the later spoke of an etheric dimension of nature mediating between the material and spiritual dimensions). The idea…