Tag Archives: philosophy

Rhizome Profiles Alex Myers

Posted on 04/05/2013 by

So Alex Myers has a lot of radditude and you can look at his blog and his twitter for constant updates on his life. I constantly want to write at length about Alex, but I’ve yet to spend the time … Continue reading →

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Nonhuman Life: Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude

Posted on 02/01/2013 by

This post is part of a series of posts that I am writing in conjunction with an independent study I am taking that is based around the concept of nonhuman life. You can read more about it here. Up front: After … Continue reading →

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Thacker on Aesthetics and Biomedia

Posted on 11/23/2012 by

Whoa – well, if biotech is the after-party of the Enlightenment, then I’d hate to imagine what the hang-over the next morning will be…But what if biotech is not really about hyper-rationality, but really about something else – like aesthetics, … Continue reading →

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Daniel Maier-Katkin on Eichmann

Posted on 10/23/2012 by

The judgment of the court in Jerusalem was that Eichmann had “closed his ears to conscience,” but Arendt did not think this was the case; it was not that Eichmann did not hear the call of conscience, but that his … Continue reading →

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Glissant and Opacity (2): Relation

Posted on 10/11/2012 by

This post, like a great many (all?) of the posts on this blog, is about my trying to figure something out for myself. What follows is the rambling that I need to do in order to work my way through … Continue reading →

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McCloskey on Rhetoric

Posted on 10/02/2012 by

The trick of claiming certitude as a way of avoiding serious persuasion is Plato’s Trope. I hold in my hand a proof, such as they have in mathematics–not the wretched opinions they trade in the courts of law–that kings should … Continue reading →

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Two New Essays That Are Brilliant

Posted on 09/13/2012 by

So there are two essays that have come out recently that I think are awesome. I want you to check them out. The first is James Stanescu’s “Toward a Dark Animal Studies: On Vegetarian Vampires, Beautiful Souls, and Becoming-Vegan.” I … Continue reading →

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On New Games Journalism

Posted on 07/20/2012 by

Or, On the Writing of the Personal Essay and How You Felt About the Game Aram Zucker-Scharff wrote an article titled “Indie Devs vs New Games Journalism” over at Nightmare Mode, and it got me thinking about the whole New … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler’s New Book is Coming Out!

Posted on 07/11/2012 by

This isn’t actual content, but it is a signal boost for Judith Butler’s newest book Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism. While I have no particular stake in the actual argument of Zionism beyond the fact that I think … Continue reading →

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Hypatia Symposium: Feminists Encountering Animals

Posted on 07/09/2012 by

As frequent readers of this blog probably know, I come out of a strong feminist background. I was incredibly lucky to work with a number of really brilliant feminist scholars when I was in undergrad, and basically anything smart about … Continue reading →

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