Agrilogistics in Diactrics

It's my new idea (!) and it's in this excellent excellent issue of Diacritics , which Karen Pinkus, the extraordinary editor, calls ...

Thank you Naomi Klein

Joshua Hyams, the producer of  The Trip 2  (with my favorite Steve Coogan) wrote me to tell me I was in the closing credits for my help on t...

Wellek Lectures: The Description

Ecognosis: For a Logic of Future Coexistence The ecological era we find ourselves in—whether we like it or not, and whether we recognize it ...

Afrika! L'Afrique, C'est Chic

Tell me it isn't just me who hears that. Afrocentric disco--what a brilliant idea. I was talking about this kind of thing in my “Earworm...

Could Have Been Written by Blake

But was in fact written by Sloterdijk in a book I'm using for my lectures (he gave them last year in any case):  “the vengeful joy of t...

Heeeere's Tristan!

Form and Object: A Treatise on Things . Excellent! Well done Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm for translating this magum opus of object-orient...

Cultures of Energy 2014

It will be just fantastic.

In Response to Something

...closing the anthropocentric barn door after the posthuman horse has bolted... Copy it, paste it, quote it. "Take this beat, I don...

Dzogchen Instructions in Music, Part Whatever

These are spiffing, and heard slightly differently, if you practice it. Listen to the first one first.

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At the state level, however , Republican governors and legislators are still in a position to block the act’s expansion of Medicaid, denying...

Wounded Narcissism Is the Dangerous One

There is nothing bad-narcissistic about caring for yourself. Foucualt's  The Care of the Self , anyone?  Pace Adam Curtis. Videos of peo...

"These Waves Are All Around Us Now"

For Doug Kahn.

Hyperobject: Homeland (video)

I just found this--it's the same as the hologram Paula Dawson sent me. If you shine a light above it, the images seem to float above the...

Polish Hyperobjects

Is happening! Thanks to UMP and Anna Barcz, the translator.

Has the Global Warming "Debate" Become More Violent?

Someone asked me this recently. I think the rhetoric has become more violent on the denialist side, and remains the same on the acceptance s...

Buddhism and Theory

Bradley Kaye has just published a very interesting book with a  beautiful title .

I Just Saw This in the Hyperobjects Cover

A Close Encounters  allusion! Actually it's even more like something about five minutes later. The Mothership passes overhead and then b...

Been There, Done That

As an English scholar, the recent spate of cynical reason from other Humanities departments isn't so surprising. It reminds me of what w...

"Winning" Debates

Britain, Britain, Britain. You're not very experienced at this are you? When you have a televised debate, never  trust the insta-poll ri...

Green Planets Is Here

My mates Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson put this together. It has an essay by me--on the inevitable Avatar. Listen to what Fred Jame...