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.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Blake Interview Today
Friday, April 15, 2022
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?
Friday, April 8, 2022
Sunday, March 27, 2022
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.)
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
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.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
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.
Saturday, February 5, 2022
I'm Haunted by This Question
We might be going extinct quite soon. What ought we to leave behind us for the other lifeforms.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
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!
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Yes I'm Changing How This Looks
...do bear with me and also, await a full explanation of my behavior.
Sunday, January 16, 2022
Dark Ecology Now Has a Thousand Citations
...Just saying!