It's funny, my first response to the emergence of this blog was that I didn't have immediate input into the future of the profession; and I hadn't even looked at Eric's post when I said that. Either my intuition is on the money, or it is blindingly true that what most of us would be most likely to talk about, is that. I feel like pasting/posting Lafargue's Eloge de la paresse or Hakim Bey's TAZ ... instead I will continue with brains, vitalism, embodiment and constitutive ontology. This coming week giving talks on La Mettrie and monsters; and attempting to force into existence a recalcitrant collective in Paris (international but based there) called ... Conatus. Things I'd like to hear informed opinions on: enactivism (Evan Thompson's recent book: I find it terribly subjectivist); experimental philosophy (I like it yet I sense there is something fishy in the argument); and other things surely not starting with 'e'.
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