the Bryant galleys

At this moment, reading the on-screen galleys of Levi’s manuscript of The Democracy of Objects.

You’ll all love reading this book. And better yet, it’s open access, so you’ll be able to put it straight onto your iPad, Kindle, or computer screen before deciding if you want to buy a traditional paper copy.

This book will become an instant OOO classic.

theater of cruelty

There’s some talk of The Prince and the Wolf being performed as an avant garde play once it’s published, which if it happens would surely be the funniest thing ever to occur in my life.

More details when and if this ever comes to fruition.

also just received: the print version of new formations #71

That’s the issue that contains my review of Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter.

Incidentally, that review is about to be removed from behind the subscription firewall and made accessible free of charge to the public. I’ll let blog readers know when that happens.

Christopher Watkin’s book received from Edinburgh

Christopher Watkin, Difficult Atheism: Post-Theological Thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011).

Edinburgh order page HERE.

Watkin is one of the few Anglophones other than me to have read L’Inexistence divine. However, we read different versions. Watkin seems to have gone into the microfilm vaults of the ENS and read the 1997 dissertation version, while I worked with the 2003 revision which is the one Meillassoux provided to me.

In any case, if you’re interested in L’Inexistence divine, you now have two sources to work with, both from Edinburgh University Press: Watkin’s already published book, and my own soon-to-be-published Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making, HERE.

Dallas-Miami

I was delighted that Dallas rallied to tie the NBA finals 2-2 against the evil Miami Heat.

I’ll stop calling them evil in a couple of years. LeBron is a wonderfully likable person no less than a fantastic player, but he absolutely deserves a few more years of frustration for the way he insulted and humiliated Cleveland on national television as he did. And you can’t really forgive it based on youth, since LeBron must have an entire team of selfish and immature handlers who egged him on that way. You may as well have told your spouse you wanted a divorce on national TV; it was that stupid and cruel and unfair.

Anyway, I’m one of the 97% or so of Americans who want to see Miami lose the championship. And so is the ever hilarious CHARLES BARKLEY.

Has there ever been a funnier professional athlete in the U.S. than Barkley? I can’t think of one.

Barkley on Magic Johnson returning to play despite his HIV infection: “It’s not like we’re going to be out there having unprotected sex with Magic.”

Barkley to his mother, angry that Charles joined the Republican Party even though Republicans ‘only care about the rich’: “But mom, I am rich!”

Barkley on his later conversion to the Democrats, a few years ago: “I was a Republican until they lost their minds.”

Barkley on this Miami team: “They just a whiny bunch and I can’t root for them.”

The Democracy of Objects

Levi Bryant’s new book is called The Democracy of Objects, and it is also the debut book in the New Metaphysics series at Open Humanities Press (of which Bruno Latour and I are the co-editors).

We now have the galleys of Levi’s book, though I won’t be able to dig in till later today. If you like Levi’s blog, you’ll love the book. As usual, he is able to integrate vast amounts of material in support of the central argument.