January 02014
A lot more words churned this month than I anticipated. My new project at work consumed a lot of my schedule/thinking, but somehow the blog didn’t dry up- other projects suffered a bit, instead. February should see a re-balance. — 14 posts published this month, ~24k words (and 2k in the wings, to-be-published). (Last month: more »
Text Dump: Sloths, Politics, Narratives
I wrote enough to post normally this week but decided to hold some of that text back. I was in Atlanta for a couple of days, and I guess I brought some pretty shitty weather with me. I didn’t schedule any posts while I was preoccupied with all of this. I’m dumping these ideas here more »
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy II
Yesterday I accidentally published this alongside my scenes post. Sorry about that. More non-DeLanda posts next week. — The last post on this topic attempted to define Deleuze’s three ontological dimensions by following DeLanda’s examples for the logic behind it. These three ontological levels: Apparent actual things with extensive properties (e.g. “metric” measurements) Morphogenetic processes with intensive properties (e.g. temperature, pressure, more »
Scenes
First pass on scenes today. Next chapter of Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy on Friday, probably? — Current Trajectory Grounding: (as in “common ground”): collection of mutual beliefs and assumptions between people (and also the act of amassing this collection) Scenius, an introduction by Kevin Kelly Presumably, accepting people are biological (and cognitive) assemblages, it is plausible that larger complexes more »
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy I
These are notes on Manuel De Landa’s Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, which is a refactoring of Gilles Deleuze’s ontology (specifically, it’s intended as an introduction to Deleuzian thought for analytical philosophers or scientific-minded readers unfamiliar to Deleuze and his very continental methodologies: this dude has two very different, very important concepts called “differentiation” and “differenciation”. That’s more »
The Arcane in Two Aeon Articles
I’m done for the week. Now that my winter break surplus is expended, I think I’ll try to reduce my output back to two posts per week. That’ll also give me more time to edit, which is a skill I really ought to be honing a bit (I’m a bit of a gunslinger with the more »
The Lives of a Cell
I’m flying to and from Orlando these weeks, guaranteeing several hours of undisturbed reading. I read Lewis Thomas’ book of essays in the air last week, The Lives of a Cell: Notes from a Biology Watcher (1974) [pdf]. It was quoted by a friend-of-a-friend on Facebook, and I recognized something in the quote and began reading the more »
Report: 13 January
My weekly progress post, to help keep me focused and honest. It’s later than it should be but I need to keep posting or else the purpose for doing it is subverted. I’m on a new project at work, and the first week demanded a lot of time/energy, including on this past weekend. Despite that, more »
Make-Believe
The best article I’ve read on Ebert’s response to “Are Games Art?”: An Apology for Roger Ebert. It is clear, it is elegant, and you don’t have to ‘buy’ it to see that the negative argument can exist in the absence of curmudgeonly ignorance. — There’s no need to delay my answer to the question, especially more »
Mulling: Potential
Yesterday’s post cites far more practitioners than theorists, which was maybe why it sounded wildly more obvious and applicable. My current unfinished post is on “Games/Art”, bouncing off of the next book on my list, Imaginary Games. Soon I’ll break from the games studies (to restock) and publish some notes I’ve been scribbling on some more »