Book Reviews
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Review of Organism Oriented Ontology
Audrone Žukauskaitė’s book is a concise analysis of the place and role of the organism, or perhaps organic thinking, within the tradition of continental philosophy. In particular, it is interested in how the legacy of post-war French thought intersects with how we think biological systems today and suggests that this thinking should be renewed in order to address some of the more massive political deadlocks of the present namely the status of biopolitics and what to do with the concept of the anthropocene.
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Polycephalous Slime: Chemistry and Intelligence in Parallel Minds
Review for:
Laura Tripaldi, Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials. Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2022. 192 pp. $18.95 (Paperback ISBN: 9781913029937)
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Philosophies d’après-nature
- Bitbol, Michel. Maintenant la finitude : peut-on penser l’absolu ? Paris, Bibliothèque des savoirs. Flammarion, 2019, 520 pages.
- Moynihan, Thomas T. Spinal Catastrophism : A Secret History, Falmouth, Urbanomic, 2019, 352 pages.
- Woodard, Ben. Schelling’s Naturalism : Space, Motion and the Volition of Thought, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 256 pages. -
Feenberg's Marcuse: Design, Ontology, and the Critique of Technology
A book review of Andrew Feenberg's The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing: Nature and Revolution in Marcuse's Philosophy of Praxis that emphasizes how Feenberg develops a critical philosophy of technology from Marcuse's work.
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Book Review: Returning to Judgment: Bernard Stiegler and Continental Political Theory by Ben Turner
Book review of Ben Turner’s Returning to Judgment: Bernard Stiegler and Continental Political Theory.
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Book Review: Mauro Carbone and Graziano Lingua, Toward an Anthropology of Screens. Showing and Hiding, Exposing and Protecting
In this text I offer a review of the book ‘Toward an Anthropology of Screens’ by Mauro Carbone and Graziano Lingua. After briefly introducing the operation proposed by the authors, I consider the salient points of the work. Finally, I propose an assessment of the relevance of the book in contemporary philosophical debate.
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Book review: Cybernetics and the Origin of Information by Raymond Ruyer
Ruyer and his elements towards a metaphysics of information’s origination Critical notice on Raymond Ruyer, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information
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Book Review: The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology
Book review of The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology: Perception and Imagination in a Digital Age by Daniel O'Shiel
