Welcome My Son

Cliff Gerrish makes a good point about Aetna insurance:  You mistake those words for a message from a human making a statement about a state...

American Medical Insurers, You Are Ignorant as Well as Brutal

…obviously. But you just couldn't be more absurd. Obamacare's website not quite fast enough? That's nothing. Nothing. Consider t...

A Thing Is Less than the Sum of Its Parts

Nice one Graham . May I achieve this intense clarity within this life.

Critical Theory Reading List

Thanks Graham . Oh gosh I think I owe these New York based chaps an interview.

NSA vs Target

"It's cool that my local department store knows that I'm pregnant before I do. But it's not cool for the NSA to know that I...

Professor Morton's Guide to Tropology 1: What Is a Trope?

A trope is an algorithm for generating a certain kind of meaning. For instance: 1. Choose a noun. 2. Choose a cause of that noun. 3. Swap 2 ...

Highly Recommended

Douglas Kahn, Earth Sound Earth Signal . Just out. One of the very best things of 2011 was going around Australia and New Zealand with Doug,...

Oh Go On, You Know You Want To

Look at your basic mind, just simple awareness which is not divided into sections, the thinking process that exists within you. Just look at...

Agrilogistics Explained

Oh dear .

Happy Yule Y'all

Why do I get excited by the Solstice? I just do.

My Interview with Jeff Carreira

Is online .

"Often, Ruefully Funny"

Douglas Armato on Hyperobjects .

Extraordinaryflakes

These snowflakes are good . Thanks Rick Muller!

Turning Nihilist

Long time correspondent Nick Guetti (hi Nick! I owe you an email!) writes:  I just had a long FB conversation with an old friend of mine: pe...

Bad Loops

Thank heavens the FDA is getting on the case of antibacterial soaps. They are also anti-batrachic, ie they make frogs die. "Long-time T...

OOO and Art

So I'm off to the Menil Collection, which is this excellent, excellent art museum around the corner. Literally two blocks away from me. ...

Yes

I like this theory . I just do, and have done for years. It's funny to see it on the front page of the Huffington Post. Just in time for...

Ocean as Hyperobject

Yes! By Steve Mentz .

Nonhumans in Comedy

Happiness is…giving episode 1 of The Mighty Boosh  series 1 to your buddy Cary Wolfe, who agrees with you that comedy is the highest art for...

JLiat book

It looks good! And reminds me to send him Hyperobjects -- he's in it!

Anthropocentrism and Marxism

Saying that ontology should be non-anthropocentric is not the same as saying humans should not act to change their material conditions. It...

Jeff Carreira on Our Interview

Posted here .

Ring Puppets

I love me a puppet .

STEMming

Stem: the central shaft. Stem: a branching shaft. Which, really? To stem from. Implication of something prior, despite the attempt to assert...

Are You a Romantic? (Interview)

Yes that's right pale faces of sad sack rage , I am a New Age consumerist, ish! This was actually a very good interaction, between me an...

Yes Henry Warwick

…that's the opening few seconds of “Close to the Edge” sampled at the start of “Lights in My Brain.”

Phantasms

Very good DJ Spooky. You didn't have to be so very kind about my book--thank you sir. This is one of my favorite Spooky things, a remix ...

Bills, Bills, Bills

That's nothing, NYT . With my heart beating too fast I was driven one block to hospital in Philly. The bill was $13000. 7 hours of monit...

Inside the Fear Is the Sadness

Going beyond fear begins when we examine our fear: our anxiety, nervousness, concern, and restlessness. If we look into our fear, if we look...

Petrolepathy

Great title for a talk this Wednesday by Tom Cohen, who is visiting Rice. I'll be introducing.

Situational Aggression

Two somewhat distressed undergrads just told me, in my capacity as director of undergraduate studies. There is a Facebook page on which Rice...