I’m heading off to Daupin Island in Alabama for a week long vacation early tomorrow morning. The house we rented looks right out on the bay from the back and right on to the gulf from the front. I can’t wait to build sand castles and play in the surf with my daughter Lizzie! With any luck I’ll also get some reading done as well. I’m hoping to get through Stenger’s book on Whitehead (though recently discussions about his theology are really souring me on his thought, deepening my conviction that Deleuze can do all the things Whitehead does in a far less problematic way), Parikka’s Insect Media (which is excellent so far), and Okrent’s Rational Animals (which is also very good). During this time I’m going to try to avoid the internet as much as possible, so if comments aren’t posted right way don’t worry!
July 15, 2011
July 15, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Have a great trip, Levi. Stay offline!
July 15, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Watch out for oil when you’re building those castles in the sand!
July 15, 2011 at 4:48 pm
enjoy a well earned rest if you can, haven’t read her new book yet but I have always read Stengers to be working Whitehead’s better angels/insights against his older bad habits/socialization, much as Rorty tried to do for William James.
have you written on Stengers’ take on Deleuze? http://www.recalcitrance.com/deleuzelast.htm
July 15, 2011 at 5:41 pm
ps, http://www.bates.edu/x67252.xml
July 15, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Have a great trip and thanks for all the great discussions over the past week!
July 15, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Stengers’ treatment of Whitehead is great. She spends a lot of time unpacking his conception of God, problematizing some aspects and clarifying others. She does a good job articulating what exactly “explanation” comes to mean in Whitehead’s scheme, which is where I think you and I are talking past one another when it comes to the role of God in the world. Enjoy the beach!
-Matt
July 15, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Matt,
I don’t think we’re talking past each other. As I said in my original post, I don’t think such appeals to the divine are credible. Whitehead, in my view, is only acceptable if he’s divorced from his theology. If it’s not possible to divorce him from that theology then his thought must be rejected altogether.
July 16, 2011 at 7:17 am
thanks for all the blogging – swim
July 16, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Oh man. Stengers on vacation. Maybe leave the Stengers home, I dunno. Have a great trip!
July 17, 2011 at 2:04 am
Levi, my response to your comments over at plasticbodies: http://footnotes2plato.com/2011/07/16/1263/
July 17, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Have a nice one mate!