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Home About Lectures Larval Subjects . Lectures Knots: For an Interactivist Ontology, Umea University, Sweden, May 2015 Machine-Oriented Architecture: Oikos and Ecology, Texas A & M, March 2015 Onto-Cartography: Notes Towards a Borromean Critical Theory, York University, March 2013 Toward a Machine-Oriented Aesthetics: On the Power of Art, Limousin, France, 2012 Two Ontologies: Posthumanism and Lacan’s Graphs of Sexuation, Dublin, Ireland November 2012 (Part 1, Part 2) Wilderness Ontology, A Round-Table with Jane Bennett, Levi Bryant, and Graham Harman, New York, September, 2011, (Part 1 around the 30 minute mark, Part 2) Larval Subjects Larvae are creatures in a process of becoming or development that have not yet actualized themselves in a specific form. This space is a space for the incubation of philosophical larvae that are yet without determinate positions or commitments but which are in a process of unfolding. levirbryant@gmail.com Pages About Journals O-Zone: A ...

Reading From Bacteria to Bach and Back I: On Cartesian Gravity by rsbakker ABDUCTION AND DIAGNOSIS Problem resolution generally possesses a diagnostic component; sometimes we can find workarounds, but often we need to know what the problem consists in before we can have any real hope of advancing beyond it. This is what Daniel Dennett proposes to do in his recent From Bacteria to Bach and Back, to not only sketch a story of how human comprehension arose from the mindless mire of biological competences, but to provide a diagnostic account of why we find such developmental stories so difficult to credit. He hews to the slogan I’ve oft repeated here on Three Pound Brain: We are natural in such a way that we find it impossible to intuit ourselves as natural. It’s his account of this ‘in such a way,’ that I want to consider here. As I’ve said many times before, I think Dennett has come as close as any philosopher in history to unravelling the conjoined problems of cognition and consc...

See also: An article in market oracle also discussed using fundamentalist Islam against secular leaders perceied to be leftists: "The best selling author of the 1989 work 'The Game Player: The Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative', Mike Copeland (died in 1991), operated in private life at the CIA-cover firm Booz Allen Hamilton. According to him, he remained the senior resident cover operative for CIA action in Egypt for over 25 years. In 1953 he met Nasser for the first time, to offer US. economic development and military assistance at a time when the US “had to face and define its policy” in all three root sectors of perceived American interest in the region. These were the communist threat, the birth and survival of Israel, and the supply of petroleum. Islamism or Arab street rage did not figure. Claims are made that it was Copeland who advised that the US must back Egypt's control of the Suez Canal, thwart the UK-French-Israeli canal zone take...