How the Light Gets In, Sept. 2020

I’ll be speaking three times at the How the Lights Gets In festival next month. You can find the homepage for the event HERE.

There will be a solo lecture on Speculative Realism, a Q & A session, and a panel with Anandi Hattiangadi and Hilary Lawson.

Festival tickets are required. Information about that can be found at the link posted above.

Japanese translation of Speculative Realism: An Introduction

It has just been published in Kyoto, HERE.

 

“Realism With a Straight Face: A Response to Leonard Lawlor”

That’s the title of my chapter in a new collection from Bloomsbury, edited by Gregor Kroupa & Jure Simoniti, and readable free of charge online or as downloadable PDFs. HERE.

Machine Sensation, by Tessa Leach

The latest entry in the New Metaphysics series at Open Humanities Press has now been published: Machine Sensation, by Tessa Leach.

It is an absorbing work that move with ease between theoretical and technological speculations, and I am delighted that Tessa chose our series as her book’s home.

You can order or download the book HERE.

OOO has no connection with accelerationism

Someone informed me that the @accelerbot account on Twitter says this at the top: “PLEASE GOOGLE OBJECT ORIENTED ONTOLOGY. THE THEORETICAL ARMATURE OF ACCELERATIONISM THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT”

This is most likely stated in bad faith. But for the record, I have no interest in accelerationism as a political doctrine, and am comfortable saying that the same is true for others working in a OOO idiom. The right-wing strand of accelerationism is self-evidently appalling. The left-wing strand doesn’t interest me either, though I do think Nick Srnicek is a talented person with a promising career ahead. Maybe there will be a debate about this topic at some point in the future, but there’s too much other work on my desk at the moment.

“Tolerando el paralaje arquitectónico”

I had no idea there would be a Spanish translation of my article “Tolerating Architectural Parallax” from a few years ago, but HERE IT IS.

UWE Philosophy threatened with closure

I’ve visited many departments of philosophy over the years, and one of my favorite has been that of the University of the West of England in Bristol. Readers of this blog may know it best as the academic home of Iain Hamilton Grant.

In fact, there are quite a few fascinating thinkers on the faculty there, and the students seem happy and well-served by the program.

Something is obviously wrong with higher education in the UK these days. We keep seeing ridiculous program closures of this sort.

In any case, you can sign a petition HERE to support the good people at UWE.

Artful Objects publication date pushed back to November

Artful Objects was scheduled to be published on July 7, but the date has been pushed back to November 3. I’m not sure as to the reasons, but it’s all revised and finished and in press.

Russian translation of Weird Realism

The good folks at Hyle Press in Perm have just published their Russian translation of my book on Lovecraft. The title is: Wеird реализм: Лавкрафт и философия.

Yes, “Weird” is the first word of the Russian title. I suppose that means that there isn’t a Russian word with the exact nuances of “weird” in English, though I’m not sure.

Ukrainian translation of “The Politics of Truth, Power, and Dwelling”

I’m pretty sure this is my first time being translated into Ukrainian. For anyone who reads the language, the article is HERE.