Tummo

And talking of Dzogchen, if you do it for long enough, this should happen. The Tibetan means fierce female fire.  It comes and goes but a wh...

Buddhist Permanence

Charles Nelson asks: “ If everything is impermanent, why seek enlightenment?” That's a common mistake that tends towards nihilism.  Enli...

Britain, Britain, Britain

BBC and Tories--you are comparing your 2.1% growth favorably to the USA? Fourth quarter results just in: 3.1%. Third quarter was 4.1%. Here...

American Scholar, You Are So Wack

It's a pretentious name. But much much worse: I heard this chap on NPR the other day. He had written yet another (apparently) article in...

The Best Party

I haven't written about them before. But as my friend Dominic Boyer (anthropology) says, having been there and met them, just having a m...

Thank You Chaps

…that is, the Center for Inquiry .

Something Is Happening. There's Something in the Air

Dear Rice community, Is energy just what we use or something we might see and taste? Ask artist Marina Zurkow, who has made a career of rend...

More on that Norton Anthology of Theory

…as a matter of fact, let's just not use it until Norton condescends to include the topic that everyone thinks about, with mounting anxi...

At Rice Next Spring

I'm teaching a class called Ecology and Philosophy. I'm part of this Philosophy Cluster of the Center for Energy and Environmental S...

Chris Schaberg, IOU

Chris, your invitation to New Orleans has resulted in what I really really wanted Dark Ecology to be, in miniature. I was already writing it...

You Horrifying Bullies

Britain, you have been hypnotized. Prime Minister's Question Time yesterday was just extraordinary.

SXSW Book Signing

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UC Davis Animal Studies Group

If you didn't care What happened to me And I didn't care For you We would zigzag away Through the boredom and pain Occasionally glan...

I Want My Nanny

…the only ones who really are addicted to welfare appear to be the banks, who are freaking out about a slight tapering of quantitative easin...

A Tibetan Responds to Agrilogistics

Dudjom Rinpoche was driving through France with his wife, admiring the countryside as they went along. They passed along cemetery that had b...

Stacy Alaimo @ Rice

You should go to this. Just look at the title.

At Rice Gallery Now

El Ultimo Grito, Garden Object

"Stupid"

She told her class that Buddhism is “stupid” and, “no one can stay alive that long without eating.” Erm…about what is she talking?  Likewis...

Great Strides in the Yogurt Department

America, you have made such great strides in the yogurt department this last year. For instance, Chobani, your lime yogurt is really quite e...

"Feel the Power of My Fusion Lick!" 2

Oh my heavens.

"Feel the Power of My Fusion Lick!"

Why have just one awesome guitarist when you can have two, going crazy on the same track? Namely, not only Frank Gambale, but also my favori...

Krugman Gets It Right

As have a lot of others . Paying slightly more tax and being mildly criticized do not a Kristallnacht make.

The Trip 2

Oh yes. “She was only fifteen years old.” I did consulting on this show for the producer and director. I can't wait to see it. Tantalize...

The Rabid Rump of Reagan

… is slowly evaporating like a black hole , consumed by its own rhetorical violence. Discuss.

Morton at SXSW

I'm talking there because Charles Long has done a huge piece based on my ecological thoughts. Friday March 7 at 5pm. Book signing at 6. ...

Life Intrinsic to Things

Some forms of theism think of life as a highly contingent miracle. Some forms of materialism (quite a lot) think exactly the same. What most...

Driverless Vehicles and Nonhuman Agency

…on Houston public radio today.

OOO in LA Review of Books

Among other things . To do with plants.

I Have Haters? Neat!

Jon Cogburn informs me that I do. Splendid. I'll take whatever attention I can get. : ) One gave up relating to all that business in the...

I'm on the Radio Today

Live on Houston Matters talking about driverless vehicles. Which is a somewhat accurate description of some of the cars already being "...

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Citations

900 citations of my stuff. I don't know if that's any good, but it feels right.

Is Flu a Hyperobject?

Someone asked me this recently. Yes, why not? You experience its local manifestations, you require computation of whatever kind to plot it, ...

Coming Soon to a Loyola Near You

Cities within Cities

Apropos of Doug's piece. Orbital, "The Box."

Douglas Kahn on Slowness

My friend Doug got hit by a car and now he's written about it in The Guardian . I love it, and especially this part:  There are cities w...

Hyperobjects Readability

I did a Flesch-Kincaid, as they say, on Hyperobjects  last June, and it came in somewhat easier to read than The Sword in the Stone . That...

McKenzie Wark on Games

Ken talks about my take down of Nature --a little bit.

Pop Focauldianism as Repressive Desublimation

…or in other words, cynical reason activation devices, on your screens, courtesy of the British. What the heck is wrong with Britain right n...

Nice One

Jonathan Lamb on Objects

Jonathan is a distinguished professor of eighteenth-century studies. This is nice to read . Hi Jon! I used to edit Eighteenth-Century Studie...

Do Let's Please Call MOOCs Failures

By its own admission, the Chronicle is now ready to admit this . Right on schedule. I remember telling my mates back in 2012 that I give MO...

More Protevi Details

Rice Seminar Lecture by Professor John Protevi on 01-17-14 Professor John Protevi of Louisiana State University  will give a lecture titled ...

Yay John Protevi

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Harman @ Rice

Just before Valentine's Day! 2.13. At 4pm. Open. He will talk about Infrastructure...

Hyperobjects in Arts&Letters Daily

Published by The Chronicle of Higher Ed. Top column .

Rock This Party Right

By Tyree (Cool House) . 1988! This is quite a mad one.

Another Good Guy

And how lovely to see Douglas Armato, chief spinner of the Minnesota press decks.

Mark Payne

So nice to end one's MLA with some deep noninstrumental intelligence served up by the great classicist and erstwhile guy who lived oppos...

Portrait with Laptop

I wonder whether photos of people engrossed in their computers would be quite revealing of their basic phenomenological style. Like portrai...

Wow Stanford

Roland Greene and Natalia Cecire invited me to be part of Arcade a while back, and it was my first experience of doodling my thoughts in pub...

Le non du père de la philosophie

…I mean, why restrict yourself to some anti-semitic sounding stuff about "essentially Jewish" vs "Greek" whatevers? Why ...

Non-Non-philosophy

If you're going to do a massive takedown of philosophy as such, hadn't you better include Nagarjuna and Nishida and Shankara, a nd t...

Environmental Critique on Hyperobjects

Thanks Randall! Students at De Paul go to work on the topic .

Amiri Baraka RIP

Something in the way of things  Something that will quit and won't start  Something you know but can't stand  Can't know get alo...

Polar Vortex Land

...for the MLA, my profession's annual convention of envy, speed and anxiety set against the backdrop of -4F Chicago. Please my fellow p...

Ecology and the New Left 2

Consider the possibility that "The New Left dropped the ball on ecology because it was a hippie thing" was because "It was a ...

"It Was a Hippie Thing"

When I first showed up in the States the official line on the New Left (emerged in the 60s) was that it was about including race, class, gen...

Capitalist vs Communist Robots

"Human uniqueness is a bourgeois construct and must be smashed. Just consider the Russian for worker ! Capitalism is an out of control ...

Resentment as Intellectual Gasoline (Sadly Low Octane)

Must…make sure…freshest…philosophy…in years…bites the dust…it was supposed to be…me...

"We Don't Have Time for This"

This hurts really bad . I know a tiny bit how they must feel given the stigmatization of my schizophrenic brother.

Weather Is Inside Climate

"The Arctic Vortex is occurring within global warming" is the same as saying "This shirt is in this closet." Thanks Jon ...

Neat

Dean Baker with some good reasoning on Obamacare . Better than that awful "I hope he fails" Robert Kuttner.

"We Aren't the World"

That's right. Precisely  because it's the Anthropocene (the most non-anthropocentric concept ever, stay tuned for my reasoning). Wor...

Hyperobjects in Translation

Coming soon: French Chinese Polish Stay tuned for more info on when.

Permanent Austerity

"Osborne," me old classmate, you have wrecked the UK. I'm never coming back: couldn't and wouldn't. You know why Obama...

Where Is Memory?

It's not in your head . Thanks Cliff.

Buddha's Birthplace

Thanks Rick . He was in legend born at the exact time archaeological science has now dated his birth. And his first shrine was a tree. Respe...

Darkside 3

...the radio play form plus the 60s utopianism and elegiac quality aligns the work with the Firesign Theater, the warmer, gentler US Monty P...

Darkside 2

The way in which the final song becomes the fourth-wall-collapse moment of the play. With that yearning, elegiac coda--where is the Juggler?...

Darkside

By Tom Stoppard. Just listened to it last night. It's going to be very difficult to describe it--in particular to relate just how good  ...

Hyperobjects in Newsweek

“You're only human. That's the problem.”

Of Selfies

“The reason why you post so many photos of yourself and your close ones online is to ward off the disturbance of intimacy . Why did the viol...

Don't Mess with My Health Care

This is true . But for weeks and weeks, supposedly left of center organs such as the Huffington Post were totally rolled by this GOP tactic.

Amazon, Your Algorithms Suck

I'm still wondering why it's not Natural for an algorithm, as opposed to algorithmic procedures carried out with pencils and paper (...

Disturbingly Fake Indigeneity

It's like the Celtic Twilight of the eighteenth century, so the aesthetic implication goes. These guys are a vanishing breed, like the W...

You Poor Sensitive Dears

Jesus Christ . Most extraordinary sentence:  “Langone described the Pope's comments about a ‘culture of prosperity’ ‘exclusionary’ state...

A Drop in the Ocean

…of real numbers, is the set of rational numbers . A gigantic ocean that can be thought, but not counted. Thank you Cliff!