my June 2011 interview with Diarmuid Hester for Mute

It’s now available online, HERE.

Adrian Johnston, Adventures in Transcendental Materialism

There seems to be no Amazon page up yet for this one, but here too I have already read and enjoyed Adrian’s finished manuscript. If you’re a Johnston fan, or even a newcomer to Johnston, you’ll like this one a lot. There are some nice polemics in this book, and also quite a lot of new light shed on points of divergence between Johnston and Žižek.

To simplify a bit, Johnston is to Žižek as biology is to quantum physics (their respective preferred scientific discourses), and Johnston shows how much follows from that difference.

There’s also more of the friendly Johnston vs. Hägglund boxing matches in the book, as well as the many expected insightful remarks on Lacan (Johnston is a trained Lacanian analyst to go along with his philosophical credentials).

Amazon page for Levi Bryant, Onto-Cartographies

The cover design says “Onto-Cartography” in the singular, but I believe Levi prefers the plural and thus the title will match what the ad itself says (with a hyphen added, however).

This one says December 2013, and that’s quite possible– I’ve already read Levi’s finished manuscript. I believe he’s just doing some final touch-ups at the moment; it was already in perfect shape.

HERE.

Amazon page now up for Tristan Garcia, Form and Object

HERE.

I wouldn’t count on the November 2013 release date that’s listed there. It will be more like January or February 2014. But you’re going to love reading this book.

next up in the Edinburgh University Press Speculative Realism series

Evan Gottlieb, Romantic Realities, has been accepted for publication in our series, and I couldn’t be happier. Evan is a professor at Oregon Statue University. He is linking each of several major figures in Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology to major figures in English Romanticism. This will be a great read.

last night’s lecture will be printed as a German booklet

Just back from the outstanding BUCHHANDLUNG WALTHER KÖNIG, which will be publishing my lecture from last night (like all the Vilém Flusser Lectures at the Universität der Künste) as a liitle German booklet.

It must be one of the best bookstores in Europe (and that’s saying something, since there are countless good ones both on and just off the continent).

Europe trip winding down now.

the Cogburn/Ohm paper on object-oriented hermeneutics: third attempt at a working link

My apologies to Jon Cogburn and Mark Ohm. Apparently my second attempt to link to their paper also failed, even though it looked fine on my screen while doing it. This time I will be extra-careful.

It’s a fascinating piece of work. In keeping with the origins of hermeneutics, they even apply their technique to some Biblical passages.

I just tried to post a link here again, and it still didn’t work, though again it looked fine. Not sure what the problem is. Let’s try posting the whole URL here and see if that works better:

http://www.newappsblog.com/2013/04/very-rough-draft-of-long-form-version-paper-developing-an-object-oriented-hermeneutics.html

Yes, now it works.

poster for last night’s appearance at the Universität der Künste

Nice enough that it’s worth posting here, even though the event has already occurred.

June 19 in Nottingham

It’s now on the web, HERE.