two Rutgers postdoctoral fellowships based on SR, ANT, and OOO

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Objects and Environments

This seminar addresses a set of overlapping developments in the humanities and social sciences: a renewed attention to the world of objects, on the one hand, and a rethinking of the concept of environment, on the other. Speculative realism, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology all proceed from nondualist premises in seeking to call attention to the world of things in which we live; as does the appeal to certain strands in phenomenology by literary scholars seeking to grasp the affective dimensions of aesthetic encounter. This theoretical turn has been intensified by new findings in cognitive science, which describe knowing as an activity lodged both inside and outside the body…

Île de Vassivière, France

When it’s 45 minutes by car from Limoges, you know it’s pretty remote. But it’s beautiful here.