"I hope he fails"

No it isn't single payer. I'm still into it .

Dub Philosophy

With the help of my awesome consumerism students and TAs (Larry Butz and Derek Woods) I reiterated today my oft repeated claim (repeated by ...

Badly Myelinated Neurons

“One of the hallmarks of that millennial profile is an inability to acknowledge mistakes,” the staffer said, sounding equal parts bemused an...

Secret Agents ov Gaia (MP3)

My talk at the American Academy of Religion, November 23, 2013. Thanks very much to Adrian Ivakhiv for convening the panel, “Querying Natura...

Tardis

Isn't this nice? On the 50th anniversary of a certain show. From my theology student Ross. I think objects are Tardises.

Ecological Awareness 101

This is the title of what I'll be sharing with the undergrads across the disciplines at Loyola in New Orleans in February. I hope you ca...

Remorseless Gentleness

Thanks Kate ! The juxtaposition of terror and peace is all too delicious.

Another Blow to LEM

…or the Law of the Excluded Middle. We have Neanderthal DNA. Neanderthals have DNA of an unknown humanoid ancestor .

Foucault and Mental Health

Thatcher and Reagan used Foucault to justify their closing of mental hospitals .

The Nonhuman Turn

I just got my images together for Richard Grusin's collection of essays, which promises to be quite groundbreaking. There are an awful l...

Interview with Doug Lain

Doug is good at playing back and forth with sentences . I was looking forward to it ever since we set it up. And was not disappointed! It is...

Waiting for Someone to Die

…given the urgency and the other options, is in fact startlingly patient and nonviolent .

Prisoner's Dilemma Leaflet Drop

That would be a way to do it. Just have the air force drop millions of leaflets on the Prisoner's Dilemma across the country. The entire...

Excellent Hyperobjects Review

Right here .

Wrong

Nope . You take a bunch of carbon compounds and some other stuff, and some cyanide, and inject some electricity. Fairly shortly you have ami...

Pass It On

I'm sure this TPM commenter won't mind you tweeting his ready mades: 1/6) FACTS-Insurers knowingly CHOSE to change grandfathered pla...

Onward

Next up, Adrian Ivakhiv has assembled a bunch of weirdos to talk about Bruno Latour's Gaia at the American Academy of Religion. Mine is ...

Bristles (MP3)

My talk at Contact Ecologies, MEMSI. It would be difficult to imagine a better intro than the one Jeffrey Cohen so kindly gave. Great quest...

Thank you Jeffrey Cohen

What an incredibly nice time I've had at George Washington University, courtesy of Jeffrey Cohen. I just finished a delightful breakfast...

Nineteenth-Century Studies CFP

In Houston! I'm talking! Email Professor Lynn Voskuil (lvoskuil@Central.UH.EDU).

John Tavener RIP

He is able to reach an unspeakable region.

Karen Jacobs

At Rice this Friday!

This Looks Right

Nice one Graham .

We Are Already Dead

Thank you for that Roy Scranton ! Your thoughts are very congruent with mine. Look at this:  Geological time scales, civilizational collapse...

That Was Nice

An interview with Doug Lain, host of the renowned Diet Soap podcast. I love to do interviews. They are like jazz: thinking and talking as ...

What I'm Saying These Days

Horror is the telepathy of flesh, taking telepathy to mean strictly passion at a distance, the susceptibility of a thing to a...

Go Figure

10% of the total sales of my books since I published the first one have been in the last month.

Plant Sensing

A good place to start to find out about it .

40bn Earth-like Planets

You think there might not just be human subjects out there ?

Notes on Divining Transhuman Space

Featuring Caroline Picard . Looks very promising.

I Believe the Correct Phrase Sounds Like "Grace-ist Brother Clucker"

Read it and weep .

Annise Parker

She's the first openly gay mayor of a US city and she lives round the corner from us. And was just reelected. Nice one!

Some Upcoming Talks

“Bristles,” George Washington University, November 15. See Jeffrey Cohen's pages for details on this.  “Secret Agents of Gaia,” American...

Jeff Kripal

Boy oh boy my friend and colleague Jeff Kripal can write. His Authors of the Impossible  is the first humanities book I've read that has...

My Interview with Brooklyn Rail

Greg Lindquist is an artist very keen on objects and ANT. It was nice talking with him . The interview is about Hyperobjects .

Tom Cohen at Rice

On December 4. With a fascinating sounding talk, "Petrolepathy." 4pm in Sewall 309.

Bingo

"People who are afraid of the ACA should be much more afraid of the insurance companies who will exploit their fear and end up overchar...

Degenerate Art

Bartok insisted, to his credit, on being part of the Degenerate Art exhibition of the Nazis in 1937. It's in the news as a cache of ...

Well This Is Interesting

I wonder whether, given this talk, neoliberalism is a kind of monotheism of the hyperobject, where there is only one true hyperobject (the m...

Zurkownian Blogsmithery

By the extraordinary Derek Woods . Watch out everyone! He is my and Cary's Ph.D student!

Another Whacky Chart

1. Hyerobjects. 2. Dialectic of Enlightenment . 3. Patrick Goggins,  A Reader's Guide to Reza Aslan's Zealot. 4. Barthes,  Camera Lu...

The Whackiest Chart

1. Kafka, Metamorphosis . 2. Eric Pepin, Meditation within Eternity . 3. Elisa Medhus, My Son and the Afterlife . 4. Bachelard, Poetics of S...

Rules of the Road

UK: There are rules, which is why I had to run you over with my car. I was going at the speed limit. California: There are rules. But I don...

Zero Sum Gaming

I hope Krugman continues to ignore the absurdities issuing from a Harvard historian who fancies himself adept at economics. And continues in...

Will This Turn Texas on to a More Rational Healthcare Policy?

… one in a hundred in my area get yellow fever by 2085 , because of global warming.

Consumerism Blogging

Go on, you know you want to . More heartbreakingly beautiful prose from my undergraduate students. Read the one on STEM courses. And the oth...

Will It Break Capitalism?

I'm not sure. But WWII for sure broke a certain phase of imperialism. One wonders whether the gradual realization that we are in the Ant...

Alternate Currents Blog

Joseph Campana (Rice) has started  an awesome blog on energy and ecology and the humanities .