CFP: Inaugural Issue of "Speculations"

The below CFP, first posted in December, is for a new online journal, Speculations: The Journal of Object Oriented Ontology. While I don't share its apparent alliance to "speculative realism," I am interested in new forums for the renewed study of "ontology" and the exploration of "post-continental philosophy" (a neologism whose usage I'm only familiar with through the work of John Mullarkey).

Speculations: The Journal of Object Oriented Ontology

CALL FOR PAPERS

Speculations invites articles on topics related to object oriented philosophy, speculative realism or post-continental philosophy for its inaugural issue. Articles should not exceed 8000 words and should conform to the author’s guidelines outlined on the website. Submissions can be sent electronically via the journal website or directly to the following e-mail address: speculationsjournal@gmail.com

Speculations is an open-access peer-reviewed journal. The deadline for submissions is February 28th 2010. Issue one is due to be published in early 2010 and will include submissions from Graham Harman, Ian Bogost and Levi Byrant.

Website: http://speculationsjournal.org
Inquiries and submissions can be sent to: speculationsjournal@gmail.com

For further information contact:
Paul John Ennis (Editor): paul.ennis@ucdconnect.ie

Kvond on Massumi: Inspired and Inspiring

updated: 12/18/09 at 6pm CST

Check out the really interesting series of posts on Brian Massumi's Parables of the Virtual over at Frames/Sing. This Deleuzian inspired book -- which is also inspiring, I think -- is also notoriously difficult. I think part of this difficulty (equally a pleasure in itself) stems from one of the strongest of Deleuzian thought-forms, which Massumi (our Deleuze translator par excellence) has clearly absorbed: namely, Deleuze's habit (welcome, I think) of stating/positing something to be the case (i.e., a particular ontological relation, or idea, etc.) and considering what flows from that position/statement. This Deleuzian concern for exploring/creating (rather than arguing stricto sensu for) concepts/relations can be disconcerting for many readers who might otherwise desire a constant relay between supposedly proven condition(al)s. To desire such a dialectics, we might say (with/alongside Deleuze), is already to be captured by those sedimented forms of intellection operative under the cultural rubric of "common sense." It is to disturb and compel us away from such thoughtless complacencies that so much of Deleuze's writings aim. Because I think Massumi's text equally targets these forms of "state philosophy," we are especially indebted to Kvond for offering such beautiful and generative -- generative because beautiful, but also beautifully generative -- postings. So far, we have the following topics:

• On Movement
• On the Priority of Change
• On Terminus
• On Indeterminancy
• On Luminosity