Tag Archives: nonhuman life

Three Animals At Play

Posted on 12/20/2013 by kunzelman

Most biologists have assumed that play has indeed had some constructive purpose in species and individual evolution, and their advocacy is itself a much grander conceptualization than any modern attempts to rationalize human play simply as growth or socialization. The … Continue reading →

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State of Decay – The First Two Deaths

Posted on 12/03/2013 by kunzelman

Marcus drove his car up to the abandoned church slowly. He was looking for a friend who needed help hunting a Feral. He had never seen a Feral before. There was something in the doorway of the church. Marcus didn’t … Continue reading →

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Pettman on Marder’s Plant-Thinking

Posted on 08/08/2013 by kunzelman

This is one of the central claims of Plant-Thinking, and yet I had difficulty squaring it with my own (admittedly inexpert) knowledge of “actual” plants. No doubt vegetal life is in many ways “unity in flux.” But does that mean it … Continue reading →

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The Silk Pavilion

Posted on 06/03/2013 by kunzelman

  The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales. The primary structure was created of 26 polygonal panels made of silk threads laid down by a CNC (Computer-Numerically Controlled) machine. Inspired by … Continue reading →

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Rancière on the Pure Nonsense of Life

Posted on 05/30/2013 by kunzelman

The notes disappear in smoke, and the raised fist of the infant – a new kind of messiah different from Bartleby/Deleuze – celebrates, for all science, the hymn of life obstinately pursuing its own nonsense. Literary fiction has embraced the … Continue reading →

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Thacker on Life

Posted on 04/17/2013 by kunzelman

This third kind of life, the”nameless thing” so often described by Lovecraft, is a paradigm for the concept of life today. The concept of life encompasses so much, from the most reductive biological viewpoint to the most open-ended ethical or … Continue reading →

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A Video Game Playing Itself

Posted on 04/15/2013 by kunzelman

So Tom 7 did some stuff and created, essentially, a control algorithm that allows a game to play itself. FYI at the end of the day this is a research blog so mostly this is for personal archiving.

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Nonhuman Life: Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude

Posted on 02/01/2013 by kunzelman

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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Nonhuman Life: Announcement and Book List

Posted on 01/21/2013 by kunzelman

This semester I will be taking an independent study on the concept of “nonhuman life.” As a part of that, I have decided to make my weekly notes, small essays, or whatever from the class available publicly–thus, for the next … Continue reading →

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