Salt Sugar Fat

It strikes me that one thing this book reveals is how the taste map of the tongue is in error. There is a gigantic forest of sweet receptors...

Haunting, Enchantment, and Leaky Ecosystems: Zurkow's Presentation

Latour litanies! A fantastic list of directives at the end! Haunting, Enchantment, and Leaky Ecosystems

That's My Class!

In the inset picture top left. Click for more detail.

Nazi Nature

Oh Banksy, friend of my father.

Bruno Latour

Started writing me. He is into Realist Magic and wants to know about hyperobjects from the horse's mouth. He is very very nice.

Marina Zurkow: "Haunting, Enchantment, and Leaky Ecosystems"

At Rice today (slides to follow!): Permian Basin: NM plus TX, major amount of oil  drawings to trouble her own bias; drove around West Texas...

Who or What Is Marina Zurkow?

Let Derek Woods, ruler of lichens, tell you .

Marina Zurkow at Rice Monday 4pm

“Haunting, Enchantment, and Leaky Ecosystems.” I shall be introducing, with Joseph Campana.

Are You Experienced?

Reggie Ray turned me into a Buddhist. Well I was a meditator already but he performed the refuge ceremony, at a winter retreat in the Rockie...

We Have Exited the Holocene

This data point seems rather shockingly vivid in that regard.

(When) Does the Cynical Reason Take Over

...in this Chipotle advertorial? I reckon even Adorno would have found it hard not to like the detourned Willy Wonka. Thanks to Larry Butz, ...

Sabotage

How hard would it be for a hater to make a bot that signed up for accounts and passwords on healthcare.gov over and over and over again? And...

Wrong Senator Inhofe

My uncle was just treated for a stroke in the UK. Very very well. He spent ten days in hospital. The only difference between here and there ...

Automatic Nothingness (MP3)

My talk at Performing Objects. So good to see Rob Jackson and João again. Automatic Nothingness

High Art/Low Art Is Now OOObsolete

Gosh I wish I'd been able to say that in the Q&A just now. There was a very good question that I answered by talking about indigenou...

The Tea Party Speaks to the World on the Current Crisis

"We have lost the war. But we are determined not to lose the battle."

Delegitimizing the First Black President

If you haven't seen this yet--especially if you're wondering what the heck is going on over here, this is now required viewing .

Object-Oriented Feminism (MP3)

From SLSA. Packed room and a very enjoyable set of papers. Frenchy Lunning's was amazing, I feel. It was on overlaps between what Harman...

Ada Lovelace Day

Happy day, celebrating the first programmer of computers .

Why Haven't I Received Hyperobjects Yet?

...probably because the first edition sold out before it appeared in the stores. Have patience given this rather surprising fact.

Interview Today

For Brooklyn Rail , about Hyperobjects . Greg Lindquist is a very interesting writer who has put together, for instance, this piece about ob...

It's Horrible How Wrong You're Getting This, BBC

So you have this neighbor who has been making your life hell. First he tied you up with a spurious lawsuit; you’re both suffering from huge ...

Can Movies Make Us Healthier?

My colleague Kirsten Ostherr rocking it at TEDx tomorrow. TEDx Houston 2013  -   The Other Things At Rice University, on September 12, 1962,...

OOO + Feminism

My talk “Weird Essentialism” is about that, by the way, as is my other talk, “All Objects Are Deviant,” which I shall soon post. It was good...

Puppetry

“At a press conference Thursday, House GOP leadership announced the new strategy, one day after Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham admitted...

Getting Ready, World?

I do so wish the BBC would stop reporting this whole thing as a tiff. Nicholas Kristoff isn't the greatest but he gets it right here: Th...

If Nothing Will Happen

...why are you threatening to blow up the debt ceiling?

My Gerrymandered District

Can you believe it? The district stops literally at the houses down my street where Chicano and black people live. And it winds into areas t...

"We Must Reduce the Debt for the Good of Our Children"

1. Bonds are a good thing. Debt = bonds. Lots and lots of bonds for the children. 2. And therefore lots and lots of jobs and houses in the p...

"Compromise"

1. The Democrats have already compromised. 2. You don't get to impose the Romney economic plan by force. Romney is not the president.

Good

There has already been (outrageous) compromise . One needs to pay the interest on those debts, Congress, or... BBC, You are still not doing ...

"This Teevee Is Broke," Said the Man with the Axe

“ the child who kills both his parents and then asks the court to have mercy on him because he is an orphan...”

"We're Not French, We Don't Surrender"

1. Obama is not a Nazi. 2. That not being French thing might be part of the problem. 3. Also that rigidity thing you got there .

World Media, Read This

Ted Yoho, a Tea Party Republican, thinks that defaulting would be a valuable bringer of stability to world markets . And he's pleased wi...

Dear Mr. President

Do not cave to the GOP over the debt ceiling. A minority of the minority (the Tea Party) do not get to rule by deciding on the exception and...

Schopenhauer Eat Your Heart Out

Schopenhauer is well into how thousands of years old seeds can still sprout--a symptom of Will, he thinks. It's a wonderful, speculative...

Racism and Social Work

Here is an issue I care about a lot, which I was talking about with my mum, who is a psychoanalyst and was a manager of and then consultant ...

No Candy Crowley

...the US government doesn't need to "borrow more." It needs to allow what has already been legislated to be paid for.

The Rice Consumerism Project

As part of the consumerism class my students have to blog, according to a set of constraints that tune their posting towards consumerism. If...

I Sometimes Like Jonathan Chait

“ In our Founders’ defense, it’s hard to design any political system strong enough to withstand a party as ideologically radical and epistem...

Associated Press, You Have a Wonderful Way with Words

...you've been out to undermine Obama since before the 2008 election. The common denominator in the befuddlement in the US government th...

Weird Essentialism (MP3)

My talk at SLSA 2013. Weird Essentialism

Chris Schaberg in Sweden

It's happening this coming week and you should go there if you're near: the conference will be on place and non-place and Chris is ...

Bisected by the Hyperobject

At SLSA

"This Isn't Some Damn Game"

(Boehner). Yes it is. It's a sadistic game with rules and moves you keep inventing and reinventing, and I for one have no wish for anyon...

Object-Oriented Feminism Panel 1

Frenchy Lunning's talk was just extraordinary. There were a lot of affinities between our talks. Her talk was about body image and abjec...

More Art Meat

This is Oron Catts's response . Three words: fetal bovine serum! And some more words: the response was before the spectacle!

Art Meat

Oron Catts is talking about this. Watch the faces!

The Easy Think Substance

I'm going to introduce an idea today at SLSA: the Easy Think Substance.

Chairs Are Trying to Kill You

Thanks Henry !

Keep Them Poor

This editorial gets it very right .

Harman at Columbia

This is the sort of thing that makes you very happy to be Graham's friend. I don't know that many people who can talk like that fro...

I Like This Chap's Take, a Lot

“There is nothing to negotiate.  Reid gave Boehner the CR number they asked for.  Boehner demanded an end to ACA.  Obama cannot give them th...

Olafur Eliasson Video

This is very well put together . A train makes a drawing. I'm writing an essay for him right now so this comes in handy. Nice soundtrack...

Also Keynoting at Notre Dame this Weekend

Subhankar Banerjee --I'm excited to meet him a lot.

"Why Won't They Compromise?"

"The entire government is shut down right now because Washington Democrats refuse to even talk about fairness for all Americans under O...

Performing Objects Looking Good

What an excellent website these guys have made .

Woods Reviews Fierce Green Fire

Derek Woods is my PhD student! 

Energy and Environment Site

The CENHS space has been upgraded .