Caputo in Dublin on Meillassoux

I've been missing all the Caputo Dublin talks (the semester I leave he, Hallward and Dennett come and there is an OOO workshop - go figure!). I just got word from Fintan Neylan (who will be writing a review of Towards Speculative Realism in volume II of Speculations) that Caputo's talk for the Philosophy Society at UCD was on Meillassoux. Not sure of the exact details yet, but a good sign.

What is an Object? (Dublin Event)

[Sadly I can't attend, but from what I can gather OOO is gaining ground in the Dublin aesthetics world - this looks like a great event for anyone in Dublin]


Public Discussion and Seminar: What is an Object?

The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

Please join us for discussions which look at how the question, “What is an Object?” might be answered from different artistic, philosophical and theoretical perspectives.

Public Discussion: 4.30pm. Thursday 24th Feb. 2011
Participants will include:

Noel Fitzpatrick
Hermeneutics, phenomenology and intentional objects
(Noel is Research Coordinator, Fine Art, D.I.T)

Tim Stott
Systems, play and objects
(Tim is a writer and lecturer, D.I.T)

Isabel Nolan
What does it mean to try and make a new thing?
(Isabel is an artist represented by the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin)

Seminar, 11.00am, Friday 25th Feb.

On Graham Harman’s Circus Philosophicus; Object Orientated Philosophy and the occult strangeness of things, lead by Francis Halsall and Declan Long (both NCAD). Reading for the seminar will be provided on Thursday.

What is an Object? is the third in a series of public events staged, by MA ACW (www.acw.ie), in the context of the current Richard Tuttle exhibition, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.

Theory Exposure

I have started to piece together little bits of writing and it seems that a trend is emerging. My post-PhD efforts are all slightly disordered and fragmentary. Whereas the past four years have been spent thinking constantly of the big picture - how it hangs together - I'm finding that although my core ideas remain my style is shifting somewhere else entirely. The format that these ideas have been constrained in is no longer needed. Time to let the ideas lead. One place it is leading is theory. This is not where I expected to be at all.

21st Century Idealism

The schedule for the 21st Century Idealism conference in Dundee has just been posted. There are lots of good conferences coming up this year, but this is the one most want to attend - if all my viva stars align I will be there.

Speculative Realism book series

Big news from Graham Harman. Edinburgh University Press is launching a speculative realism series (a good sign for sure!). This is certainly welcome:

'I’m also pleased to note that all books in the series will be released simultaneously in paperback as well as hardcover, so there won’t be any $100 books that tantalize impoverished graduate students while remaining financially out of reach.'

If you were toying with the idea of writing an SR related book, but worried about whether you could find a publisher well that problem has just disappeared.

Also Graham reminds us that Levi's book will be coming out soon via the Open Humanities Press 'New Metaphysics' series too.

Cascades of Contingencies

Hopefully that'll catch the attention of the philosophers...a new article I put together for Celsias has just gone up. This time they let me put in a little bit of theory. Comments welcome!