Where Is The Object?

So with Realism Wars™ probably still raging somewhere, I am taking a mental health break, I was thinking of Karatani’s parallax, borrowed by Zizek and made into a book. It’s not really that important to me what Zizek has to say about it, what’s fascinating is the very experience of parallax, I found it hard to [...]

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Note To Self: Watch More Hockey!

I’m posting this for myself so that I can have a reference instead of looking it up on stupidly slow (probably my fault) NHL website:

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The Universities In Trouble

UPDATE II: Marc Bousquet follows up his critique of Marc C. Taylor on The Valve.  UPDATE: Apparently everyone is hastening to announce the end of the university as we know it (will we feel fine?) Interesting review from NY Review of Books:  Since the financial meltdown began to accelerate last summer, the world has changed [...]

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Realism Wars™ Update.

Hard to keep up with all of this philosophical action: Grundlegung has a post on the matter, with Levi’s always-already-there response here, plus a couple of exchanges at Larval Subjects and a continuation of the thread at Speculative Heresy. Things are heated but ultimately rewarding, I think, at least we’re not discussing Breatney Spears’ latest [...]

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I Hate Science: Another Monstrous Distortion.

Levi offers another one of his characteristic “pick and choose” and wildly distorted interpretations of my comments on Speculative Heresy – it’s all nicely quoted and nicely summarized there. It is clear that I hate science – but hey what has it ever done for me and my armchair (actually, an ottoman kind of like [...]

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Eckart Förster’s Essay on Kant, “Transition” and Opus Postumum

As some might have already noticed and I was pretty slow to discover this, some edited volumed available for preview on Google Books sometimes have full essays avaiable for your scholarly interest. May I wholeheartedly recommend this essay by Eckart Förster, “Fichte, Beck and Schelling in Kant’s Opus Postumum” which begins with a nice summary [...]

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Lovejoy on Kant and Evolution (Popular Science Monthly, July 1910)

Interesting essay by Lovejoy on Kant and evolution here.

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Wolff’s Deutsche Metaphysik (Online)

Christian Wolff’s Vernünfftige Gedancken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen, auch allen Dingen überhaupt that is also referred to as Deutsche Metaphysik is on Google Books – there are several editions, some are horrible scans, but this one looks very nice and clean (with only some pages poorly scanned here and there). This [...]

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While I Was Napping: More Realism Wars™

Unfortunately for me, I’ve missed a post on Speculative Heresy from some days ago on realism – with some remarks there and on his own blog, Alexei responds to the post as well. I would like to address only a couple of things in the post, things that I believe would be a misunderstanding of [...]

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Our Relationship to Doorknobs is an Aggresive One: Lucas Murgida

Instead of a paper catalog, 667 Shotwell made a short documentary about Bay Area artist Lucas Murgida: Lucas Murgida at 667 Shotwell from Chris Sollars on Vimeo. LUCAS MURGIDA: MUSTER RETRODICTION Opening Friday May 1, 2009 7 – 10 PM 667 Shotwell between 20th and 21st St May 1 – 30, 2009 Lucas Murgida’s performances and [...]

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