Circling Squares

Adam Kotsko has an interesting post on the "hottest new trend in continental philosophy" , namely "scientism." The que...

To my last comment Levi replies : "Given that naturalism and materialism have historically been the underdog positions, it’s difficu...

Levi has more on naturalism, its opposite and the sociology of intellectual cohorts : It is not unusual for people to respond to clai...

I can only agree with Richard Murphy's assessment of the Nobel committee's decision to award the peace prize to the EU as "utte...

I finished my paper for the upcoming Materialism and World Politics conference hosted by the Millennium journal at the LSE over the weekend...

Levi Bryant critiques Karen Barad's statement that "relata do not precede relations." I find this whole question very diffi...

This technique is turning out to be pretty labour intensive in terms of sanding, cleaning and getting it all evened out (although the initi...

Endless rambling on about politics and philosophy is fun and all but I think this blog could do with a bit more variation.  Fortunately it t...

Dark Chemistry posts a nice Einstein quote (I won't re-post the whole thing -- that's thunder-stealing): I am convinced there is...

Mr Meacher seems to be fighting an uphill battle to get his General Anti-Tax Avoidance Bill the time of day in Parliament .  He was restrict...

Dark Chemistry writes to Levi Bryant: “Ontology has value insofar as it is difficult to form being in the way we aim for if we do not have...

Alexander Galloway responds to my previous claims : My reference to Citizens United simply references what we might call the “Personifica...

There's one similarity between the embassy-centred violence in the Middle East in the past week and the riots in Britain last summer tha...

Glenn Greenwald writes : [T]o act as though Muslim anger toward the US and Israel is primarily the by-product of crazy conspiracy theorie...

Sara Ahmed writes : I am using the example of racism to show the entanglement of ontology with politics which is not the same as saying al...

For some it is the epitome of radicalism to extend politics to cover everything but actually I think that this is the most conservative of ...

Agent Swarm remarks on an old comment of mine on the politics/ontology question: Harman scores points against a very silly opponent: “Onc...

 The Agent Swarm blog writes: The attribution of ontological commitment must take into account the regime of enunciation, otherwise you a...

I confess that I’m thoroughly baffled by the question of what politics an ontology should entail. I readily recognize that an ontology can...

In the Guardian today, a conversation between philosopher Julian Baggini and physicist Lawrence Krauss.  The former asks the latter: So t...