Nigel Thrift on speculative realism and blogs

Well, HERE is a real treat. The eminent geographer and Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University Nigel Thrift weighs in on behalf of speculative realism and blogs simultaneously.

One nice sample from Thrift’s piece:

“So did these blogs have an effect? I think that they did. In the case of speculative realism, they allowed the field to agglomerate more quickly than it otherwise would and to gain momentum faster than it otherwise would have. Get enough people to feel that they are in on something and they will want to diffuse it outwards. I think that they have also produced a field which is more heterodox than might otherwise have been the case, more willing to draw on traditions which were not avowedly philosophical: they contributed to an interdisciplinary formation which has one foot in philosophy but another in all manner of intellectual communities.”