Time to start a blog
Now that blogging is dead, seems like a good time to start a blog! I’ve given myself a few ground rules.. Mini-essays — Longer-form writing will be the focus here. Aside from the occasional acts of...
View ArticleThe Reticular Fallacy
We live in an age of heterogenous anarchism. Contingency is king. Fluidity and flux win over solidity and stasis. Becoming has replaced being. Rhizomes are better than trees. To be political today, one...
View ArticleFrench Theory Since 1989
(Below is the description for my spring doctoral seminar at NYU. Consortium students in the New York area are welcome to join us.) French Theory Since 1989 (MCC-GE 3010 Special Topics in Critical...
View ArticleSuperpositions
(This is the first of two excerpts from my talk at “Superpositions—A Symposium on Laruelle and the Humanities” hosted at the Center for Transformative Media at the New School. Read part two.) Newcomers...
View ArticleSuperpositions (pt. 2) — Seven Paths
(This is the second of two excerpts from my talk at “Superpositions—A Symposium on Laruelle and the Humanities” hosted at the Center for Transformative Media at the New School. Read part one.) In...
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Laruelle: Against the Digital
I’m pleased to announce the publication of a new book, Laruelle: Against the Digital. My position is a bit idiosyncratic. Rather than offering a synopsis or critical annotation of Laruelle’s work, the...
View ArticleQueer Atonality
I’ve been reading and re-reading Jordana Rosenberg’s fascinating essay on “The Molecularization of Sexuality,” published recently in Theory and Event. It’s a long and challenging piece, one that...
View ArticleWarm Pride
I follow with astonishment the discourse on global warming, because, first and foremost, we’re screwed and, second, nobody is doing the slightest thing about it. The discourse seems to be changing...
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Book Release & Panel Discussion
SPECULATIVE FUTURES A Conversation with Steven Shaviro & Alexander Galloway Moderated by Eugene Thacker Presented by the Liberal Studies Program of the New School for Social Research & the...
View ArticleDebating Accelerationism
I recently interviewed author Benjamin Noys about accelerationism, negation, abstraction, and his new book Malign Velocities. Read the whole interview at 3:AM Magazine.
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Network Pessimism
I’ve been thinking a lot about pessimism recently. Eugene has been deep in this material for some time already. In fact he has a new, lengthy manuscript on pessimism called Infinite Resignation, which...
View ArticleImmanence
There’s a new issue of Parrhesia. It’s one of the most interesting journals active today and I encourage you to take a peek if you haven’t already. In browsing through the issue I was struck by a few...
View ArticleChanging Fortunes of Contemporary French Theory
Here is an audio recording on “The Changing Fortunes of Contemporary French Theory,” in which I say some flattering things about Laruelle and some unflattering things about Latour. The recording is...
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The Universe of Things
(Here’s also a podcast of the recent panel discussion between me and Shaviro hosted by the New School on Nov 7th.) With the recent publication of The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism, Steven...
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Guy Brossollet’s “Non-battle”
Counter-insurgency is a urgent issue in American life today–indeed around the world–as state and non-state actors alike perfect the art of subduing popular upheaval. Viewing individuals and populations...
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Rise of Nondiegetic Media
For reasons that I don’t entirely understand, blogging seems to provoke in me a backward glance, not the kind of hyper-immediate status updates and running commentary of quotidian fancies typically...
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Counter-gaming
‘Tis the season. From Destiny to the Warlords of Draenor expansion, a number of new blockbuster games have been released this fall. Still, the world of gaming seems especially stagnant these days, as...
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Old Materialism
I’m just finishing a piece on the work of Fredric Jameson, a process that has been challenging on a number of levels. Aside from the rather lurid if mundane biographical fact of the apprentice...
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Black Box Architecture
Remember back to a moment of great energy. Remember back to the Occupy movement of a few years ago. During one of the larger marches, when protesters were quitting the island of Manhattan across one of...
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Black Box Architecture 2: Damaged Modernism
The previous post was an attempt to rethink the brut in brutalism, not so much in terms of raw concrete but raw information. Still, a lot has changed in architecture since the 1970s, first with...
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