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An extract from Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose Australian anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose’s remarkable final book is a landmark piece of interdisciplinary, multi-species scholarship based on fieldwork with the zoologists, conservationists and Aboriginal…
by Simon P. Kennedy Back in 1532, the French Protestant reformer, John Calvin, wrote a major commentary on Seneca’s De clementia. Buried in this work is an important statement: “Man is a social animal.” Calvin believed that humans were naturally…
by Bleddyn E. Bowen To mark the release of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics in paperback, this blog post is an edited extract of the book, summarising the seven propositions of spacepower theory from the book to guide critical…
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Missed Part 1 – 3? Check them out here!Part 1Part 2Part 3 Or read the full conversation here! Graham Harman: Finally we come to the somewhat unorthodox pairing of your fifth chapter: Jean-Luc Marion and…
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Missed Part 1 and 2? Check them out here!Part 1Part 2 Or read the full conversation here. Graham Harman: In Chapter Two your focus shifts toward the Chilean immunologists and autopoiesis theorists Humberto Maturana and…
By Paul Patton, editor of Journal of Social and Political Philosophy Journal of Social and Political Philosophy (JSPP) is an exciting new venture in collaboration with the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University, one of the leading universities in China.…
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Missed Part 1? Check it out here! Or read the full conversation here. Graham Harman: Much of the contemporary discussion of the material turn focuses on a group sometimes called the New Materialist Feminists, some…
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Read the full conversation here. Graham Harman: You begin your book New Ecological Realisms by discussing a widely observed turn in recent continental theory, from the preoccupations with language found in structuralism and poststructuralism to…
by Pål Kolstø More than a hundred thousand Russian soldiers have marched up to the Ukrainian border and the world is waiting in trepidation: what will happen next? What is Putin up to? Is this a prelude to war? Why…