Note: below you will find more specific links, through which you may advance to the remarks of specific speakers After much behind-the-scenes fidgeting and arranging, I’m happy to say we can finally make available an edited video recording of the two keynote symposiums from Conditions of Mediation, the ICA preconference I co-organized with Tim Markham, … Continue Reading
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Being in the World: a screening and discussion
Next week, on Friday 7 June 2013, I will be hosting a screening and discussion of Being in the World (Tao Ruspoli | USA | 2010 | 81’) through Birkbeck’s Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice. Being in the World explores the intimate connections between skilful mastery and the ways in which humans beings … Continue Reading
Harman’s politics of particularities?
I am a fairly regular reader of Graham Harman’s blog Object-Oriented Philosophy. Partly, of course, because his philosophy interests me, especially its implications for thinking about media, even though I certainly couldn’t claim to be doing object-oriented media research (there’s a lot of that, e.g. soon-to-be-former Birkbeck student Paul Caplan, and several of the contributions … Continue Reading
Thinking, if not yet doing, normativity
I’ve recently indulged – too often – in ending conference or seminar papers with earnest-yet-brief gestures towards the normative side of what I’m getting at. I think this is because the overall leaning of most of my work so far is fairly ontological, but I don’t really want it to be limited in that sort … Continue Reading
Save Middlesex Philosophy on video
Save Middlesex Philosophy from Norman Hastings on Vimeo. As many will know, though for reasons I still cannot fully grasp, Middelsex University is closing its philosophy programmes, and with them, the Centre for Modern European Philosophy. This short video takes you to the scene of the crime as it were, and includes interviews with Christian … Continue Reading