Category Archives: Graham Harman

Tim Morton, Realist Magic and writing books

Posted on September 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Tim Morton is writing a couple of books, under the titles Realist Magic and Hyperobjects. And he’s writing them terrifyingly fast, blogging about it as he goes. His stuff is worth reading, so it clearly works for him. Graham Harman is similarly … Continue reading →

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Harman’s Meillassoux book

Posted on August 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s new book Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making has been out for less than a month, and I’ve now had a chance to read it. The structure of the book is reasonably straight-forward – chapters on After Finitude, the … Continue reading →

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Speculative Medievalisms II

Posted on August 8, 2011 by stuartelden

Speculative Medievalisms II, with some excellent speakers (Graham Harman, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Patricia Clough etc.), is to be held in New York at the CUNY Graduate Center on September 16th. I wish I could be there, as the first was excellent (see … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Writing; Making Time for Writing

Posted on July 29, 2011 by stuartelden

From Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault site – reposted with commentary at her Refracted Input blog: Does there exist a pleasure in writing? I don’t know. One thing is certain, that there is, I think, a very strong obligation to write. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Harman on Meillassoux

Posted on June 19, 2011 by stuartelden

A very interesting piece by Graham Harman on Quentin Meillassoux is available open-access here.

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New Interview with Graham Harman

Posted on June 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Among other things he talks about his love of sports and future directions for his work. Find it here.

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New books

Posted on May 23, 2011 by stuartelden

A whole big pile of books arrived over the last few months while I’ve been away. Some of them are ones I have chapters in; one I endorsed; most are ones I asked for in recompense for review work; some … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Bruno Latour, Eugen Fink, Fossils, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Giorgio Agamben, Gottfried Leibniz, Graham Harman, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeremy Crampton, Martin Heidegger, Medieval Studies, My Publications, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

Roundup

Posted on May 22, 2011 by stuartelden

Back home in York. Lots to catch up on. Graham Harman’s review of Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter is in the new issue of New Formations (via Graham’s blog). Doesn’t seem to be available online. Visual/Method/Culture is a new blog from … Continue reading →

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Harman’s Meillassoux book

Posted on May 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Flyer here, with a discount price, and Žižek’s blurb.

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Towards the arche-fossil

Posted on April 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Alongside the stuff on fossils I’ve been reading, I’ve also been accumulating a few notes and references to things that seem closer to what Meillassoux means by an arche-fossil. The work of Lord Kelvin on the cooling of the earth, … Continue reading →

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