[This post is a placeholder for future work.] As I’m reading more, and thinking more, I’m coming the conclusion that there may be a few immediate, practical applications for the “object-oriented-ontology” way of thinking, particularly when it comes to building software supporting scientific applications. This is driven by my experience …
Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing Definitely a thought provoking book. This is one of the first things I’ve read about Object Oriented Ontology (OOO) (aside from the clustermag article that initially vectored me to Bogost). Although I find the program interesting and worthwhile, I’ll admit to …
Beyond the Brain by Louise Barrett First off, this is a very well written book, Barrett’s writing style is exceptionally clear and engaging — definitely a better read than most (well, almost all) books of similar weight. Barrett’s main thrust is to demonstrate, in the tradition of Chalmers …
Is it any surprise that policy has paid most attention to the issues that just happen to be the things those with the most political power care the most about? What was I thinking? From: The need for countervailing power by Mark Thoma 1 Judith Butler’s discussion (So What Are …