Re: [-empyre-] Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-16 Thread Michael O'Rourke
Levi Bryant responds here too: https://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/onto-cartography-ooo-and-politics-a-reply-to-judith-halberstam-and-cameron/  --- On Fri, 15/6/12, Ian Bogost wrote: From: Ian Bogost Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Meillassoux / Harman To: "soft_skinned_space" Date: Fri

Re: [-empyre-] to jacob & homay

2012-06-16 Thread shu lea cheang
hi, all first i take a bow for much support of my work on this list. a quick note to say, if you need to teach BRANDON, please write to guggenheim (or me) to obtain the password for the website, if somehow they still have not got it back online by this fall. a recent interview at Rhizome about

Re: [-empyre-] Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-16 Thread Michael O'Rourke
There is also Levi Bryant's essay on Ranciere, queer theory and his onticology in the journal Identities and numerous well-thought blog posts at Larval Subjects on "phallosophy", queer theory and posthumanism and the Lacanian graphs of sexuation, Morton's "Queer Ecology" essay in PMLA and the es

[-empyre-] Week 4 - Affect

2012-06-16 Thread micha cárdenas
Much critical theory and art today can be said to be concerned with affect, as demonstrated by the essays in The Affective Turn, a book edited by Patricia Clough, one of this week’s guests. Brian Massumi states that “the primacy of the affective is marked by a gap between content and effect” in Pa

Re: [-empyre-] Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-16 Thread Clough, Patricia
Well starting off in the last week is difficult. So much going on over the last three weeks. Thanks to Zach and Micha for the invite and to everyone else offering some great thoughts to ponder. As for discussion around feminism, queer and OOO/ SR There are (still/even more) worrisome

[-empyre-] Subject: Re: Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-16 Thread naxsmash
"After Butler, object oriented philosophy, it seems to me, would have to pass through the gendered territory of the subject/object relation. " - Judith Halberstam As I was reading this thread yesterday I was struck by how a chasm opens when as, mentally, I make the move from 1- acknowledgin

Re: [-empyre-] Subject: Re: Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-16 Thread Timothy Morton
Hi all, It's Tim Morton of Rice University here. I'm going to take Jack's suggestion and paste this post I wrote here. I am an OOO person who writes on ecology and philosophy. Tim OOO, Gender, Sexuality I can't sleep. I was up grading so by rights I should be knackered. But I've also been up

Re: [-empyre-] Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-16 Thread Timothy Morton
Hi All, If this already went in, sorry. Ignore. I'm pasting a post I wrote here, because Jack Halberstam kindly suggested I do. Just to introduce myself, I'm Tim Morton of Rice University and I'm an OOO-er. Yours, Tim OOO, Gender, Sexuality I can't sleep. I was up grading so by rights I should

Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OOO/P

2012-06-16 Thread Timothy Morton
Hi Everyone, This is my first (or possibly second if the other got through) message to the list, and I'm responding to a brief discussion of the notion of flat ontology initiated by Michael O'Rourke (hi Michael!) and Frederic Neyrat. OOO comes in various flavors and is not necessarily flat. Mine

Re: [-empyre-] Subject: Re: Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-16 Thread ashok sukumaran
I just noticed how a phrase there christina to sing our house. > We must have a poetics of relation, as Glissante said, or we die. > -christina > slipped so literally close to tim's onetime post on dancing about architecture, here: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.in/2010/10/dancing-abou

Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OOO/P

2012-06-16 Thread Michael O'Rourke
Hi Tim! Cheers for your thoughts. Take a look at Christina's work here: http://www.christinamcphee.net/  I think it resonates in many ways with yours.  M. --- On Sat, 16/6/12, Timothy Morton wrote: From: Timothy Morton Subject: Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OO

Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OOO/P

2012-06-16 Thread Clough, Patricia
I am not sure this got throughsince I am also missing some of Tim's I think but I will put it here below but first. Just to say that objects in OOO are not objectifications or mere things or commodities. A turn to ontology (whether OOO or feminist queer ones) is to give us a sense

Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OOO/P

2012-06-16 Thread Michael O'Rourke
Hi Tim! Cheers for your responses. Take a look at Christina's work here: http://www.christinamcphee.net/  I think it resonates in many ways with yours.  M. --- On Sat, 16/6/12, Timothy Morton wrote: From: Timothy Morton Subject: Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OO

Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OOO/P

2012-06-16 Thread Timothy Morton
Thank you Michael. Tim http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com On Jun 16, 2012, at 6:41 PM, "Michael O'Rourke" wrote: > > Hi Tim! Cheers for your responses. Take a look at Christina's work here: > > http://www.christinamcphee.net/ > > I think it resonates in many ways with yours. >