Speculative Realism in the Humanities: My Essay in the LA Review of Books

“UNLESS YOU’VE been hiding under a rock, you know that saying things about rocks is now something humanists are allowing themselves to do wi...

CFP for graduate conference my place

MODALITIES You email submissions@modalities2015.com I'm helping the students organize this. Should be excellent with excellent food and ...

...and for My Next Trick

“Consider the case of milk. Greeks enjoy their fresh milk, produced locally and delivered quickly. But Dutch and other European milk produce...

Queer Green Sex Toys: Another Dark Ecology Snip

...that's the title of an essay I'm writing for a religion journal, haha--but it's also part of my argument in Dark Ecology : “I...

Now You Can Read My Dialogue with Björk

Thanks to Ashleigh Kane at Dazed and Confused magazine . We both decided it would be awesome to share the emails. When you read them, you g...

Another Dark Ecological Amuse-Bouche

Anatomy of ecognosis . Ecological awareness is like a chocolate with concentric layers. In the spirit of René Wellek I have mapped these lay...

How to Play Bass

...courtesy of Jeff Berlin.

Say "I'm not happy with the Anthropos of the Anthropocene" One More Time: More Dark Ecology

Fourthly, some of us are anxious that Anthropocene is hubristic, elevating the human species by assuming it has godlike powers to shape the...

Marx Brothers Upside Down: Another Dark Ecology Snip

But what if appearance were inextricable from essence? If such an entwining were thinkable, one could reverse the joke often cited by Slavoj...

Why Aren't You Here Doing This?

Namely, at the Whitechapel Gallery (great gallery) looking at the Hollow Earth by Emilija Škarnulytė and Tanya Busse. It's got the Arct...

Here Comes a Dark Ecology Snippet about Capitalism

“Capitalist economics is also an anthropocentric practice that has no easy way to factor in the very things that ecological thought and poli...

More Peeks at Dark Ecology

“There are some substitutes for the term Anthropocene . For instance, I have been advised to call it Homogenocene . But this is just a euphe...

Are You a Witch?

I hope you are. If you are, then you're going to enjoy Dark Ecology . A lot.

My New Idea

A new idea a day keeps the doctor away! This is a beginning exploration from  Dark Ecology : “The holism in which the whole is greater than ...

Tilting and Dragging

“Labour could have tilted to the center, but in fact they are being dragged to the left.” Said on the BBC radio 4 Today show this morning. I...

Should Extremism Be a Crime? Or Is That Going Too Far?

...haha... I doubt David Cameron will define austerity as a form of extremism. It should be.

Dark Ecology Epigraphs

Progress means: humanity emerges from its spellbound state no longer under the spell of progress as well, itself nature, by becoming aware o...

Mega Review of Shaviro's Speculative Realism on 7.28

... it will be in the LA Review of Books  and I like Shaviro's book so much, I've written a piece that could be some kind of forewor...

Separated at Birth

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What It Feels Like Over Here Right Now

Josh Marshall nails it . Some of us were always aware that timing was essential to politics, just as it is with thought and with comedy, and...