Circling Squares

The ‘politics’ found in AIME follows on from Latour’s previous work on ‘ dingpolitik ,’ the basic idea of which (as I understand it) is that...

Steven Shaviro has a really interesting piece on his blog on accelerationism . I'm alternately puzzled and appalled by the whole accel...

I just watched this really excellent talk by Tim Ingold on Anthropology beyond Humanity .  I found it to be fascinating and engagingly deliv...

Terence Blake approvingly posts a review of Harman and Morton by Nathan Brown in Parrhesia . It's definitely an interesting review. I...

There is a giant, bright red, stompy, irritable elephant at the centre of Latour's concept of diplomacy (or his version of it, anyway). ...

Jeremy at Struggle Forever has a post on the social, culture and nature.  The first paragraph: I’ve been following an interesting discuss...

Levi Bryant has a new post on the separation of politics from ontology: Ontology is about what is , about what it means to be, how things...

This is one of the best couple of paragraphs I've read on economics (and, indeed, ideology) in a while: In the very long run there is...

Latour mentions the ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan in AIME and also in his book Iconoclash . Here’s a section from a very interesting artic...

[…] It is entirely possible—indeed, it is already largely the case—that the West (Europe, at least, unquestionably) is finally in a situati...

When I read this in AIME: Since the dawn of time, no one has ever managed to summarize a work without making it vanish at once. Summarize ...

I've posted the following Contribution on the AIME website.  It draws on a recent news story . A fascinating news story from the world...

Jan posts some interesting comments on trends in STS/ANT: [...] during the last few months I noticed that we in STS (and we as ANTers esp...

Nicholas at Installing (Social) Order reblogs an interesting story about Bruno Latour's receipt of the Holberg Prize.  This unspeakabl...

Today was the first day I've ever been on strike .  Until fairly recently I didn't have a job secure enough to strike over! The ...

I really hate definitions of 'politics' or 'political' that remove all its sharp edges, that make it smooth, rounded, honori...

In response to my last post on human exceptionalism dmfant writes : going back to our being creatures of habit why isn't the differe...

On the AIME reading group blog sam asks : "How else can we account for the uniqueness of human existence (if we can at all)?" I’...

William James famously called habit 'the enormous flywheel of society.'  He could also have called it the flywheel of cognition.  Le...

The summary and discussion thread for chapter 5 of the AIME reading group is online . I found this to be a very frustrating chapter. Frust...