The Legume, the Piston, and the Bearded Man

Today’s contribution to the ongoing Speculative Heresy/Inhumanities event, is from the author, videogamer designer, Stephen Colbert guest, and blogger, Ian Bogost. Merging high philosophy with an in-depth knowledge of emerging forms of technology and art, Ian has provided a series of creative contributions to the field of ‘applied OOP’, and here provides a wonderful reflection [...]

Speculative Heresy/Inhumanities Event

Fabio Gironi of the blog Hyper Tiling has a really interesting post up for the event, over at The Inhumanities. If you haven’t already, make sure to check out his blog as well, which draws together philosophy, science and a number of other topics, into a exciting collection of thoughts (including some thoughts on the [...]

The Rational Animal?

Kicking off the Speculative Heresy/Inhumanities blog event, the opening piece comes from Pete Wolfendale of the prolific and always fascinating Deontologistics blog. Pete’s piece is not only an excellent introduction to the issues, it also frames the questions beautifully, as well as contributing Pete’s own unique answer to the norms/realism relationship.
The aim over the next [...]

New Events Page

Just a quick post to note that we’ve compiled a new Events page to centralize and keep track of all the events going on around the new continental materialisms and realisms. It also includes, where possible, texts and audio from the events, forming an archive of these past events. Add a comment if there’s any [...]