Monthly Archives: July 2012

In ALL THINGS SHINING, Kelly and Dreyfus, following Heidegger, talk about “gathering” to describe the coming together of practices in configurations of ways of being in the world: “The practices have gathered throughout the history of the West to reveal … Continue reading →

Rorty shares with Dreyfus and Kelly (in ALL THINGS SHINING) the notion of a secularized polytheism that rejects all attempts to commensurate the incommensurable as hegemonic power tactics. The desire to reinforce this polytheistic attitude by supplying it with an … Continue reading →

Pickering talks about machinic ontology in a very interesting article called “Science, Contingency and Ontology” (2009). He contrasts a sort of static relativist pluralism of understandings of the world, which he calls a crystal ontology, with a more dynamical interactive … Continue reading →

Andrew Pickering in “Cybernetics as Nomad Science”, seems to have some ideas convergent with pluralist thinkers such as Deleuze and Feyerabend. He contrasts a pluralist open anarchist ontology based on embodiment and becoming with a dualist ontology based on the … Continue reading →

Dans “New Ontologies”, Andrew Pickering, le philosophe et sociologue des sciences britannique, présente deux types d’ontologie: 1) une ontologie classique, dominante, de type transcendant – une ontologie d’essences et 2) une ontologie plus inhabituelle, minoritaire, de type immanent – une … Continue reading →

Timothy Morton believes he has a master argument against those who think that OOO suffers from a pragmatic contradiction: he just ignores all the concepts and ridicules what remains: here. This is in fact a characteristic of OOO – to … Continue reading →

New Bernard Stiegler article: RELATIONAL ECOLOGY AND THE DIGITAL PHARMAKON (Thanks to Daniel Ross)