InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·Jul 23, 2018Identity Politics, Solidarity, and Judith Butler’s notion of the Body in “Mistaken Identity”I just finished reading Asad Haider’s book Mistaken Identity and I want to use it as an excuse to work through a critique of Butler that…
InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·Aug 27, 2017Heidegger, Barad, and Agential Realist ResponsibilityAs Luigi Pellizzoni points out in a recent book, Heidegger is a difficult figure to situate within the ongoing discourse of critical…
InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·Feb 4, 2017Dynamic Homogeniety: A Short Talk on Jane Bennett’s Vibrant MatterThe following is a very short thing written for a panel discussion on posthuman conceptions of community at the university of manitoba, 3…
InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·Jan 24, 2017You Never Leave The Mall: On Grafton Tanner’s Babbling CorpseI spent the afternoon yesterday reading through Grafton Tanner’s Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. It’s a fun…A response icon1A response icon1
InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·Nov 12, 2016Cruel Mysticism: The Construction of the Spiritual Consumer in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray LoveIt’s a weirdly affecting experience to browse the Amazon reviews for Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love. For many people, this book has…A response icon1A response icon1
InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·Oct 22, 2016Responsive Performativity, or Why Ryder Ripps is the [something] of [something else]Ryder Ripps is an internet artist who I’ve been aware of, and interested in to varying degrees, for maybe four years. His work is…
InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·May 20, 2016William James’ Agential RealismWilliam James, in his 1904 APA presidential address on “The Experience of Activity” (later reprinted in his Essays In Radical Empiricism)…
InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·May 11, 2016Freedom From What: Bauman’s Notion of EmancipationIn the opening chapter of Liquid Modernity, Zygmunt Bauman offers a fairly bleak portrait of the relationship between the individual and…
InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·Jun 22, 2015Summary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 4)Chapter 4A response icon3A response icon3
InOpen ObjectsbyDave Shaw·Jun 22, 2015Summary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 3)(read part 1 here, or part 2 here, if you want)
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