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Thursday, 16 April 2015

"The varieties of diplomatic experience (with special attention to the problem of territory)"—for workshop on "Bruno Latour and Environmental Governance"

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I'm very excited to be taking part in a workshop next month titled "Bruno Latour and Environmental Governance." Since the 19...
Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Against (eco-)austerities, left and right

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Reading this Ecomodernist Manifesto , I am reminded of the Accelerationist Manifesto . These tracts have little to nothing in common politic...
Tuesday, 14 April 2015

'An Ecomodernist Manifesto' reviewed—part 1

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There is much in this document that is praiseworthy. However, it gets off to a bad start: To say that the Earth is a human planet becomes...

'An ecomodernist manifesto' published

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An Ecomodernist Manifesto So much wrong with it that it's difficult to know where to begin. Will take some digesting...
Friday, 10 April 2015

2015 Millennium Conference: 'Failure and Denial in World Politics' (keynote: Bruno Latour)—an opportunity for rethinking critique?

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The theme for this year's Millennium conference at the LSE has been announced: "Failure and Denial in World Politics." The ke...

New materialism is the new poststructuralism

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I think that this is true in more ways than one; however, one way is particularly important. Like poststructuralism, new materialism is a ...
Saturday, 4 April 2015

Scientific iterations of 'Anthropocene' and modal incommensurability

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Terence Blake writes (by way of introduction to a broader blog critique of Latour's AIME project): The term “Anthropocene” is a scien...
Thursday, 26 March 2015

Styles of writing, modes of thought and logic versus poetics

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By way of response to my previous post on the seminar that she organised, Penny Newell writes  (with terrific kindness!): It's great ...
Friday, 20 March 2015

Academia.edu

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I've avoided using Academia.edu for a while. Not for any particular reason, I just didn't feel the need to 'network.' Howeve...
Tuesday, 17 March 2015

The relentless immolation of straw men

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One after the other, higher and higher they are piled! Relentless, ruthless—none shall be spared. What bravery, what hard nosedness! And my...

Anomie and atmosphere in Douglas Trumbull's 'Silent Running'—Now with words and pictures

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As previously advertised , I gave a talk yesterday at a seminar run by the Performance Research Group at King's College London, the them...
Friday, 13 March 2015

"Taking Gaia seriously in Bruno Latour’s Geopolitics: comment on Philip Conway’s ‘Back Down to Earth’"—Simon Dalby

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Simon Dalby's reply to my research article on Bruno Latour's geopolitics is now online. The first paragraph: Reading Philip Conw...

"I wish you to know that I am a river about 350 miles long; I have not many tributaries, nor much timber, but I am full of fish."

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I recently finished reading a fascinating book by Laura Dassow Walls,  The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of Amer...
Wednesday, 11 March 2015

'It's not a pathology, it’s a project!—Sociology, anomie and atmosphere'

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I'm very much looking forward to speaking at a seminar run by the Performance Research Group at King's College London next Monday (...
Friday, 27 February 2015

Four theses on (and for) criticism

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If the intention of a criticism is not to construct then call it what it is: a denunciation. That would save us all a lot of time. I would...
Saturday, 21 February 2015

Hobbes on Warre

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Further to my reflections on Leviathan and the concept of war in my previous post , perhaps the words of the man himself might be in order:...
Wednesday, 18 February 2015

“We scientists are on a warpath” – Gaia: Global Circus

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Last Saturday evening, I had the great pleasure of attending the first UK performance (and, indeed, the first in English) of a play written ...
Sunday, 8 February 2015

Clive Hamilton and Jacques Grinevald: 'Was the Anthropocene anticipated?'—Explorations of historical geo-ontology

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In what is, in my humble opinion, one of the most important contributions on the subject yet, Clive Hamilton and Jacques Grinevald ask: ...

'Gaia: Global Circus,' London, 14th February

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Next weekend at UCL's Bloomsbury Theatre, 'Gaia: Global Circus,' a play by Pierre Daubigny and organised by Bruno Latour, will ...
Saturday, 7 February 2015

John Tresch's 'The Romantic Machine'

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John Tresch's The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon is a beautifully constructed and unfailingly impressi...