PDF of “Physics of the World-Soul: The Relevance of Alfred North Whitehead’s...
Here’s a hyperlinked outline of a long essay on Whitehead and scientific cosmology that I’ll post in sections. Here is a link to a PDF of the complete essay: Physics of the World-Soul: The Relevance...
View Article[The Sunset of Materialism: Whitehead's Philosophy of Science] The Relevance...
The Sunset of Materialism: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Science “The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen–all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plow lands kind...
View Article[The Imaginative Generalization of Evolutionary Theory] The Relevance of...
The Imaginative Generalization of Evolutionary Theory “In the most literal sense the lapse of time is the renovation of the world with ideas…[The universe is] passing with a slowness, inconceivable in...
View Article[Quantum Decoherence and the Incompleteness of Nature] The Relevance of...
Quantum Decoherence and the Incompleteness of Nature “[Creativity] prevents us from considering the temporal world as a definite actual creature. For the temporal world is an essential incompleteness.”...
View ArticleBruno Latour’s Gifford Lectures are underway: “Facing Gaia”
Bruno Latour is about halfway through his lecture series on natural religion. Videos of the lectures should be posted by the University of Edinburgh any day now. Here is a good review of lecture 3,...
View ArticleContinuum
Some good friends of mine will be featured in this film: Planetary Collective Presents: Continuum
View ArticleReflections on Bruno Latour’s 3rd Gifford Lecture –“The Puzzling Face of a...
Latour marvels at the reverse symmetry of the discoveries of Galileo and Lovelock. Both transformed humanity’s perspective of the Earth (and itself) by pointing cheap instruments to the sky. In the...
View ArticleLatour’s 4th Gifford –“The Anthropocene and the Destruction of the Image of...
My summary: By 2016, the world’s geologists will officially decide whether or not Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. From Latour’s non-modern perspective, neither “nature” nor...
View ArticleClimate Change and Schelling’s inversion of Fichte’s “economic-teleological”...
Two disappointing tidbits of news from the front lines of the climate war came my way this morning. First, I learned that the US Department of State decided to contract out its recent environmental...
View ArticleJeremy Johnson on the 2013 Integral Theory Conference and the Ecology of Ideas
“Everything that Rises…” Or Synthetic Thought, Florilegium and the Networked Age: ITC 2013. My friend Jeremy is the official blogger for ITC 2013 here in San Francisco. I’m completely with him in his...
View ArticleMoney, Ecology, and Burning Man: Inquiries into the Thermodynamics of Capitalism
I’m headed back to Black Rock City for the 3rd time in 4 years later this week. I’ll be camping with Cosmicopia at 7:15 J if you want to stop by. I’ll be giving a brief talk on the need to ecologize...
View ArticleEcologies of Space-Time in Organic Ontologies
Adam over at Knowledge-Ecology threw a great post up concerning ethology, ecology, and time. Here is a sneak peek: “The organism is not an entity acting from within space and time; rather, the organism...
View ArticleReflections on Bruno Latour’s “An Inquiry into Modes of Existence,” Ch. 4:...
I’m participating in a reading group with about 40 other scholars focusing on Bruno Latour‘s recently published book An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns (2013). This week...
View ArticleNotes for a Sunday Evening Cosmology Salon
If you’re a San Francisco local, I’ll be speaking with a few friends at Cyprian’s Episcopal Church on Turk and Lyon this Sunday (4/27) at 7pm about community-building and the cosmopolitical importance...
View Article“Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic” by Whitney Bauman
“From a planetary perspective, truth is seen as the coconstruction of truth regimes. Our understandings of the world and the technologies of those understandings begin to create those worlds that we...
View ArticleThe Pluralism Wars Return: Towards a Diplomatic Ontology of Organism
I was wondering how long the cease fire would last… The pluralism wars flared up again this afternoon over on FaceBook (this link may not work for everyone). Misunderstandings abound, or so it seems to...
View ArticleTowards an Ecological Metaphysics
Leon Niemoczynski (here) and Adam Robbert (here) have been having a productive back and forth regarding the prospect of an ecological metaphysics. Speculative Realism is not far afield of their...
View Article2015 Whitehead Conference Poster –“Seizing an Alternative: Towards an...
More about the conference, and my track, can be found HERE and HERE.
View ArticleBruno Latour and Rowan Williams on Religion and Ecology
A very wide-ranging and far-reaching conversation. Economics, the “ownership theory” made and sold to students at the London School of Economics and many other Universities around the neoliberal...
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