Cool America

 What's Fonzie like? Twitter. 

It's a charity. I just created it. 

Hyposubjects: An Evening of Improv Philosophy (video)

 Berlin, Friday...

Patreon Update

 There are now almost three hundred of us, and I've uploaded over seventy episodes of my podcast. Two artists have taken me up on an offer to promote their work on the site and I'm really enjoying the role of building a feeling of community in this way. 

Join My Patreon and Get Promoted

 I've decided that one of the greatest things I can use my Patreon for is to help to promote other people's work. An artist member just told me about their show, and I asked them if I could promote it on the site, and they agreed. So if you'd like me to help out with a publication or an exhibition of any kind, please do join! 

Alan White RIP

 The drummer of Yes, erstwhile drummer for Lennon. To be absolutely honest I prefer his drumming to Bill Bruford's, in the end (!). Yeah I know I know but, technically proficient isn't the same as musically powerful. Heavy heavy action paintings. 

This is another heretical thing especially as I love 70s Yes. But I also love 80s Yes and this is an underrated amazing album, one of their best, and this is one of the most extraordinary things they ever made, I feel. Underground nuclear testing is a theme in the background, and world revolution is the foreground. And it's got some extra heavy White drumming...

Blake Interview Today

 I've done a lot of interviews but this is a very exciting one for me, with the Blake Society of the UK. I've been wanting to write about Blake since I was 19 and finally I've found a way to do so. 

Turkish Hyperobjects

 Wow I had no idea! LOL it was published in 2020! I am not very intense about these things. It's lovely it was translated! Thank you to the commenter here who alerted me. Isn't it a nice cover? 

Dialogue with Zizek

 ...I'm about to record it...

Adam McKay Told Me How Many People Have Seen Don't Look Up

 Two hundred and thirty million so far. Nominated for Best Picture! 

I was staying at his house for a few days a couple of weeks ago. 

"Wicked Problems"

 Finally I found footage! This won the Royal Philharmonic Society award last year for best short composition. (Lyrics by me.) 

Fascinating: My Most Obscure Book Is Now My Most Popular

 Well, according to the sales figures, Dark Ecology outperformed Being Ecological and Humankind and All Art is Ecological by a big margin. And Hyperobjects! 

In fact I've never received such good sales figures. 

I'm going to have a go at explaining why on my Patreon this morning. 

Also: I'm deeply diving into The Dawn of Everything (have you yet? You absolutely must) and what is also intriguing is, Dark Ecology predicted this argument and I am sure Graeber didn't read it! I very much like it when people I like and whose intellect I trust (was just making friends with him when he died) come to the same conclusions as me. Especially if they're using different sets of tools: "philosophy" and "anthropology" (I'm sure they would put that word in quotation marks too). 

The overlap? A sense of the ridiculous. Comedy. It's a really important overlap actually. I'll talk about it on Patreon today. 

Works in Translation

 I thought you might like this list I just made of translations of my stuff. I'm all ears if you know how others might be made. I've never had an agent! 

Chinese

Ecology without Nature (Shaanxi People's Publishing House, forthcoming).

Croatian

Tamna Ekologija (Dark Ecology), tr. Iva Polak (Zagreb: Sandorf & Mizantrop, 2018).

Danish

Økologi uden natur: En gentænkning af miljøorienteret æstetik, tr. Torsten Bøgh Thomsen (Forlaget Spring, 2019). 

Dutch

1. Ecologisch Wezen (Ten Have, 2018). 

2. Duistere Ecologie (Boom, 2018). 

French

1. Etre ecologique, tr. Cécile Wajsbrot (Zulma, 2021).

2. La Pensée ecologique, tr. Cécile Wajsbrot (Zulma, 2019; reissue 2021). 

3. La magie réaliste: objets, ontologie et causalité, tr. Arthur Duhé (Open Humanities, 2021).

4. Hyperobjets: philosophie et écologie après le fin du monde (French), tr. Laurent Bury (Cité du Design, 2018).

German

1. Ökologisch sein (Being Ecological), tr. Dirk Höfer (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2019). 

2. Ökologie ohne Natur: Eine neue Sicht der Umwelt, tr. Dirk Höfer (Mattes & Seitz, 2016).

Italian

1. Ecologia oscura (Italian Dark Ecology) (Luiss University Press, 2021).

2. Come un'ombra dal futuro: Per un nuovo pensiero ecologico (The Ecological Thought), tr. L. Candidi (Aboca Edizioni, 2019). 

3. Humankind (Produzioni Nero, 2020). 

4. Iperoggetti, tr. V. Santarcangelo (Nero, 2018).

5. Noi, Esseri Ecologici, tr. G. Carlotti (Laterza, 2018).

Japanese

1. Humankind (Iwanami Shoten, 2020).

2. Hyperobjects (Ibunsha, 2020). 

3. Ecology without Nature (Ibunsha Publishing Company, 2019).

Romanian

The Ecological Thought (Fractalia Fundatia Pentru, 2020).

Russian

1. Being Ecological, tr. Dmitry Kralchkin (Moscow: Andrew Numberg, 2019).

2. Realist Magic (Russian) (Open Humanities, 2019). 

Spanish

1. Astronave (Holobionte, 2021).

2. Reciclar la ecologia (Spanish Being Ecological) (Reservoir Press, 2021).

3. Magia realista: objetos, ontología y causalidad, tr. Laureano Ralón and Román Suárez (Open Humanities Press, 2020).

4. Ecología oscura (Dark Ecology), tr. Fernando Borrajo (Ediciones Paidós, 2019). 

5. El Pensamiento ecólogico, tr. Fernando Borrajo (Ediciones Paidós, 2018).

6. Hiperobjetos: filosofia y ecologia después del fin del mundo, ed. Adriana Hidalgo (El Espejo, 2018). 

Turkish

Insan Türü (Turkish Humankind), tr. Duygu Dölek (Profilkitap, 2021).

I'm Doing This with Zizek

 ...on April 4. Not quite sure what "this" will be but, in essence, he would like us to talk with each other and we both agreed it would be about planet-scale political action. 

I'm Haunted by This Question

 We might be going extinct quite soon. What ought we to leave behind us for the other lifeforms. 

Podcast about the New Blog Look

 I really really like it. 

Does anyone have a screenshot of the previous two versions? 

Anyone remember the duck-rabbit look from 2008? 

And how about the Black Lodge look from 2010 until last week? 

Anyway, if you sign up to my Patreon you can hear 20 minutes of me talking about a whole lot of stuff about this blog. 

Thank you for being part of this adventure! 

Yes I'm Changing How This Looks

 ...do bear with me and also, await a full explanation of my behavior. 

Dark Ecology Now Has a Thousand Citations

 ...Just saying!