“increasingly vocal”

Thanks to Ian Bogost’s keynote talk in Uxbridge, UK (ironically the same place I first met Bruno Latour, 10 years ago), Speculative Realism has a foothold in videogame theory:

“In recent years, a small but increasingly vocal group of philosophers have been assembling a critique of the post-Kantian tradition of ontological anti-realism. As it is relevant to my interests, this critique involves two related moves: first, a rejection of idealism and a reassertion of realism. And second, an expansion of the concern of being beyond the human.”

It’s lucidly written, like all of Bogost’s work, and maybe later I’ll have a bit more to say about it, on this first day of classes…

Due to Ramadan, classes become not only slightly shorter, but also either earlier or later, and since one of each of my classes gets pushed in either direction, I have a gigantic 9-hour gap between the two until the month of Ramadan ends, towards September 20.

رهضان كريم