23 09, 2011

Speculative Realism Recordings Archive

By |2016-01-12T21:09:22+02:00September 23rd, 2011|philosophy, Speculative Realism|0 Comments

This is a listing of the recordings (audio and video) of events related to Speculative Realism alongside with Actor-Network Theory, Object Oriented Ontology, Heideggerian Phenomenology etc. If you have a recording that is not listed here and is available for open publishing, do not hesitate to contact me. Speakers: Brown, Bogost, Bozovic, Bryant, DeLanda, Johnston,  Hägglund, Harman, Hallward, Latour, Meillassoux, Morton, Shaviro, Stafford, Williams and others) The list is in chronological? order. Most of the recordings were found on the following sites: ((Anthem Group)), ((ecologywithoutnature)), ((michaeloneillburns)), ((http://materialism.mi2.hr/)), ((http://mis.ucd.ie )), ((Bournemouth Media School)), ((LSE ))((ooo.gatech.edu)). 2011 2010 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/01-OOO-Symposium-2010-Gatech-Welcome.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/02-OOO-Symposium-2010-Gatech-Harman.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/03-OOO-Symposium-2010-Gatech-Shaviro.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/04-OOO-Symposium-2010-Gatech-Bryant.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/05-OOO-Symposium-2010-Gatech-Bogost.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/06-OOO-Symposium-2010-Gatech-Stafford.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/Hello_Everything_Seminar-Levi_Nathan_Graham_and_Ian_on_SR_and_OOO.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/Hello_Everything_Seminar-Tim_Morton-Sublime_Objects.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/Hello_Everything_Seminar-Graham_Harman-What-are-Speculative-Realism-and-Object-Oriented-Ontology.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/Hello_Everything_Seminar-Ian_Bogost_Ontogeny_and_Graham_Harman_Real_Pseudo_Objects.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/09/01-james-williams-audio-Contemplating-Pebbles.mp3 http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/09/02-graham-harman-audio-I-Am-Also-of-the-Opinion-that-Materialism-Must-be-Destroyed.mp3 [...]

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6 03, 2011

I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth

By |2016-01-12T21:09:35+02:00March 6th, 2011|philosophy|1 Comment

Ray Brassier interviewed by Marcin Rychter, linked from: kronos.org.pl KRONOS: 'Nihilism' is one of the most ambiguous philosophical concepts. What is your idea of it? Would you consider yourself a nihilist? Does nihilism totally exclude religion? What about Meillassoux's nihilistic faith fuelled by the inexistence of God? RB: Very simply, nihilism is a crisis of meaning. This crisis is historically conditioned, because what we understand by ‘meaning’ is historically conditioned. We’ve moved from a situation in which the phenomenon of ‘meaning’ was self-evident to one in which it has become an enigma, and a primary focus of philosophical investigation. The attempt to explain what ‘meaning’ is entails a profound transformation in our understanding of it; one that I think will turn out to be as far-reaching as the changes in our understanding of space, time, causality, and life provoked by physics and biology. The pre-modern worldview that lasted several millennia [...]

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1 12, 2010

Hello, Everything: Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology

By |2016-01-12T21:09:35+02:00December 1st, 2010|conferences/workshops, philosophy, Speculative Realism|0 Comments

Hello, Everything: Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology A conference sponsored by the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory A conference sponsored by the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 10:30-4:30 UCLA Faculty Center, Redwood Room 10:30-12:00 Graham Harman, “What are Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology?” 1:00-2:00 Timothy Morton (UC Davis), “Sublime Objects” Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA), Sartre and Object Classification” 2:15-3:15 Levi Bryant (Collin College), “Ontotheology and Withdrawal: Sexuation and the New Metaphysics” Nathan Brown (UC Davis), “On Method: The Compound Epistemology of After Finitude” 3:30-4:30 Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech), “Object-Oriented Ontogeny” Graham Harman (American University, Cairo), “Real Objects and Pseudo-Objects: Remarks on Method”

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29 06, 2009

Ph.D thesis

By |2017-12-05T02:32:57+02:00June 29th, 2009|philosophy, research|0 Comments

The main purpose of this thesis is to explore the theoretical and methodological approaches that are involved in understanding how to achieve interaction, communication and collaboration in socio-technical contexts. Hence this thesis seeks for a systemic, ontological framework for understanding and approaching interaction, communication and collaboration processes, which is able to describe the ways we organise in networked societal groups or contexts of interactive participation, within a context of psychological, social, and material relations. Modestos Stavrakis PhD

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13 04, 2009

speculative realism/materialism workshop at uwe

By |2016-01-12T21:10:26+02:00April 13th, 2009|conferences/workshops, events, philosophy|1 Comment

info from the infinite thought Speculative Realism / Speculative Materialism A One-Day Workshop 12–7pm, Friday 24 April 2009 Lecture Theatre H124 St Matthias Campus University of the West of England Bristol BS16 2JP Participants: Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut), Iain Hamilton Grant (University of the West of England), Graham Harman (American University in Cairo), Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London) with a paper by Quentin Meillassoux (Ecole Normale Supérieure) The first ‘Speculative Realism’ workshop at Goldsmiths College, London, in 2007 sparked considerable interest and debate in contemporary European philosophy circles. This second workshop shall pursue some of the fundamental issues that emerged out of the first, principal among them the relation of speculative philosophy to materialist metaphysics. Materialism emerges at two key yet divergent junctures: firstly at the physicalist level, raising the problems of reduction and epistemic change, and in consequence, confronting the viability of any kind of speculative [...]

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10 08, 2008

διαφωρές (απο)δόμησης

By |2016-01-12T21:11:04+02:00August 10th, 2008|philosophy|1 Comment

Εν δυνάμει, μπορούν να υπάρξουν/κατασκευαστούν πολλών ειδών διαφορές : καλό - κακό, άσπρο - μαύρο, αριστερό - δεξιό, νέο - παλαιό, πραγματικό - μεταφυσικό, υποτακτικό - ανυπότακτο, εδώ - εκεί, ναι - όχι ... ίσως μια πιο "ουσιαστική διαφωρά" να είναι αυτή ανάμεσα σε αυτούς που εστιάζουν στις διαφορές καθαυτές και δρουν βάσει του πλαισίου τους και σε αυτούς που βλέπουν τις εκάστοτε αναδυόμενες διαφωρές ως έναυσμα για αναλυτική προς την φύση αυτών δράση. Θα μπορούσε όμως αυτό το παιχνίδι των διαφωρών να είναι οντολογικά ατελείωτο; Το πιθανότερο είναι να μας οδηγήσει σε μια ατέρμονη ενέλιξη, μια ιδεολογική υποτροπή, του τύπου του ακραίου μετα-στρουκτουραλισμού, η οποία στην προσπάθεια της να στηριχθεί κάπου, να ορίσει την γλώσσα της, την καταστρέφει αδιάκοπα χωρίς να αφήσει κανένα ίχνος πίσω της. Η (απο)δομητική σκέψη όμως δεν ορίζεται βάσει της υπερίσχυσης της υποτροπής έναντι της της υπέρβασης και της εγγραφής όπως αναφέρεται σε διάφορες ερμηνείες [...]

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1 05, 2007

speculative realism

By |2013-12-13T02:05:07+02:00May 1st, 2007|philosophy, research|1 Comment

Speculative Realism is a philosophical current taking its name from a conference held at Goldsmiths College, University of London in April, 2007. The conference was moderated by Alberto Toscano of Goldsmiths College, and featured presentations by Ray Brassier of Middlesex University, Iain Hamilton Grant of the University of the West of England, Graham Harman of the American University in Cairo, and Quentin Meillassoux of the École normale supérieure in Paris. Credit for the name "speculative realism" is generally ascribed to Brassier, though Meillassoux had already used the term "speculative materialism" (matérialisme spéculatif) to describe his own position. Speculative Realism focuses in providing a robust defense of philosophical realism in the wake of the challenges posed to it by post-Kantian critical idealism, phenomenology, post-modernism, deconstruction, or, more broadly speaking, "correlationism". While often in disagreement over basic philosophical issues, the speculative realist thinkers have a shared resistance to philosophies of human finitude [...]

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