audio of my January lecture at the University of Oregon

HERE.

That very gracious introductory speech is by Michael Allan, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature. We go way back, since Mike was an intern at the American University in Cairo during my first year as an Assistant Professor there, in 2000-2001.

Felix & Sofie Café

Nice event tonight in Amsterdam; many old friends were present.

The first half was Marcel Zuijderland interviewing me about Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Philosophy (to a full-house crowd, which for that space means about 70 people).

The second half was a debate between me and Emanuel Rutten. Though I think Emanuel’s ideas are utterly off target, he was an affable and enthusiastic conversation partner and a really nice guy. I would describe him as a strong correlationist theological philosopher from an analytic tradition. What that means is that he uses analytic philosophy-style arguments to establish that God does exist, but only for-us and not in-himself. I don’t much see the point of speaking of God-for-us, but he gave a spirited argument for it. A nice evening.

another peace-inducing African scene

This one’s from Kenya. November 210.

more beautiful African landscape

Another from my November 2010 trip to Kenya & Tanzania. These landscapes soothe the mind at such a deep level that you start to believe those scholars who claim we are hard-wired to adore the savanna, our original human home.

“The Volcanic Structure of Objects: Metaphysics After Heidegger”

That’s the title of an article I published in 2008 in the Sofia Philosophical Review. I have just learned that it is available HERE, for the price of 4 Euros.

This was originally a lecture given at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh in 2005.

Morton’s next book cover

Check out this beauty of a cover for his forthcoming Hyperobjects book. (Not that the one for Realist Magic is any less impressive– just different.)

on the Braver book

Someone pointed out that I made a March 22 post on a new book by Lee Braver that turns out not to be by Braver at all. HERE.

Actually, it’s more complicated than that. Amazon did send me a note describing this as “a new book by Lee Braver.” But in fact, it’s an edited volume containing one essay by Braver. I must have been too bleary-eyed to look at the page carefully, but Amazon’s mailing to me did triumphantly announce a new book by Lee Braver, so I wasn’t in scrutinizing mode.

new organisms receive Lovecraftian names

http://science.ubc.ca/news/697

(Hat tip, Rachel Sussman.)

Lovecraft is really hitting his stride now, becoming a superstar beyond his previous cult readership.

link to video of Levi Bryant’s Toronto lecture

HERE. It was posted a few days ago, but I just noticed it.

 

object-oriented hermeneutics

Read all about it in this draft of a forthcoming paper by Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm (who also happen to be the English translator’s of Tristan Garcia’s Forme et objet).

I’m holed up in Amsterdam preparing for my two lectures here and one in Berlin in the next 4 days. The first event is the one at Felix & Sofie in Amsterdam tonight. It sounds like I’ll be called upon to make a gunslinging defense of the thing-in-itself against Emanuel Rutten’s objections.

[ADDENDUM: I forgot to put a link to the paper. HERE.]