Unit Operations II
Notes from around the neighborhood: Jordan Peacock recently wroteon the idea of the episteme and a “miscommunication-reduction strategy”. Also, Adam Gurri recently wrote an excellent piece in response to the neoreaction that articulates a view of institutions that I particularly appreciate. (There’s also an annual roundup post by him on his personal site that I intend more »
Unit Operations I
I first really engaged with Bogosts’ work in college, a few years ago, as I dug into Games Studies seriously for the first time. I’ve expressed slivers of his work before- one of my earliest posts was a rather dry excerption of a college essay of mine, on the Simulation Gap, Procedural Rhetoric, and Sim City. I more »
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy IV
(Tomorrow I post my first post on Unit Operations. I’ll probably be reading it at a slower pace, though.) This is Part 4, on “Virtuality and the Laws of Physics”. Part 1 (on “The Mathematics of the Virtual”) Part 2 (on “The Actualization of the Virtual in Space”) Part 3 (on “The Actualization of the Virtual more »
Mulling: Multivocality, Cities, Currency
This might not seem like the kind of urgent material that would require immediate posting, but I prefer to record my readings and reactions roughly as they occur, in whatever incomplete form they take. I might make prettier, denser posts if I collected myself first and edited longer after, but that hasn’t been how I’ve more »
Seven Fundamental Laws of Spiritual Ecology
Two posts in one day- This breaks one of my unwritten rules, but I need to clean house and I’m not going to store a post for a rainy day, because on that rainy day the post may no longer seem relevant. Below: Some quotes+notes on Greer’s Seven Laws, from Mystery Teachings From the Living more »
Why DeLanda
My backlog is huge. It’s much easier for me to type than it is to edit. Hm. It’s also easier to type on the plane than it is to read sometimes, too- bumpy flight. I’ll wrap up Intensive Science shortly. I wanted to give a brief account of what, exactly, I find interesting in DeLandan/Deleuzian thought, because more »
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy III
Also, it’s the Year of the Horse! That’s my year. It doesn’t mean anything to me but I’ll own anything if I’m told that it’s mine. — This is Part 3 of 4, on “The Actualization of the Virtual in Time”. (The final chapter will be “Virtuality and the Laws of Physics”). In Part 1 (based more »
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 »