Speculations

The OOO journal SPECULATIONS, edited by Paul Ennis in Dublin, is about to get off the ground.

Also, I may be speaking on OOO in Amsterdam in mid-April, if scheduling allows.

Then there’s the showcase OOO launch event in Atlanta, organized by none other than Ian Bogost himself. I’ll finally have the chance to meet Levi Bryant and Steven Shaviro at that one. (Bogost, of course, I met briefly in Cairo in July.)

Add the decidedly OOO flavor of the first round of books set to appear in the New Metaphysics series at Open Humanities Press, and you have the makings of a counterweight to the more numerous post-Deleuzian orientations that are currently available. Those are useful too, I just can’t sign up for any of them for various reasons.

If you want a sense of where the post-orthodox emerging orthodoxy is right now, the journal Collapse is becoming a good sample of it. A bit of Deleuze, a bit of Badiou, a dash of Laruelle, lots of excitement over mathematical formalization, more and more cog. sci., much deference to the natural sciences combined with little interest in full-blown speculative philosophy, all tied together with a nice design sense by the editor. That’s a good sample of where the orthodoxy of 2012 is likely to be. It has its value.