Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy IV
(Tomorrow I post my first post on Unit Operations. I’ll probably be reading it at a slower pace, though.) This is Part 4, on “Virtuality and the Laws of Physics”. Part 1 (on “The Mathematics of the Virtual”) Part 2 (on “The Actualization of the Virtual in Space”) Part 3 (on “The Actualization of the Virtual more »
Mulling: Multivocality, Cities, Currency
This might not seem like the kind of urgent material that would require immediate posting, but I prefer to record my readings and reactions roughly as they occur, in whatever incomplete form they take. I might make prettier, denser posts if I collected myself first and edited longer after, but that hasn’t been how I’ve more »
Seven Fundamental Laws of Spiritual Ecology
Two posts in one day- This breaks one of my unwritten rules, but I need to clean house and I’m not going to store a post for a rainy day, because on that rainy day the post may no longer seem relevant. Below: Some quotes+notes on Greer’s Seven Laws, from Mystery Teachings From the Living more »
Why DeLanda
My backlog is huge. It’s much easier for me to type than it is to edit. Hm. It’s also easier to type on the plane than it is to read sometimes, too- bumpy flight. I’ll wrap up Intensive Science shortly. I wanted to give a brief account of what, exactly, I find interesting in DeLandan/Deleuzian thought, because more »
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy III
Also, it’s the Year of the Horse! That’s my year. It doesn’t mean anything to me but I’ll own anything if I’m told that it’s mine. — This is Part 3 of 4, on “The Actualization of the Virtual in Time”. (The final chapter will be “Virtuality and the Laws of Physics”). In Part 1 (based more »
Text Dump: Sloths, Politics, Narratives
I wrote enough to post normally this week but decided to hold some of that text back. I was in Atlanta for a couple of days, and I guess I brought some pretty shitty weather with me. I didn’t schedule any posts while I was preoccupied with all of this. I’m dumping these ideas here more »
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy II
Yesterday I accidentally published this alongside my scenes post. Sorry about that. More non-DeLanda posts next week. — The last post on this topic attempted to define Deleuze’s three ontological dimensions by following DeLanda’s examples for the logic behind it. These three ontological levels: Apparent actual things with extensive properties (e.g. “metric” measurements) Morphogenetic processes with intensive properties (e.g. temperature, pressure, more »
Scenes
First pass on scenes today. Next chapter of Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy on Friday, probably? — Current Trajectory Grounding: (as in “common ground”): collection of mutual beliefs and assumptions between people (and also the act of amassing this collection) Scenius, an introduction by Kevin Kelly Presumably, accepting people are biological (and cognitive) assemblages, it is plausible that larger complexes more »
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy I
These are notes on Manuel De Landa’s Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, which is a refactoring of Gilles Deleuze’s ontology (specifically, it’s intended as an introduction to Deleuzian thought for analytical philosophers or scientific-minded readers unfamiliar to Deleuze and his very continental methodologies: this dude has two very different, very important concepts called “differentiation” and “differenciation”. That’s more »
The Arcane in Two Aeon Articles
I’m done for the week. Now that my winter break surplus is expended, I think I’ll try to reduce my output back to two posts per week. That’ll also give me more time to edit, which is a skill I really ought to be honing a bit (I’m a bit of a gunslinger with the more »