Cool synchronicity!
For about a year when I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austion I lived down the street from author Bruce Sterling. All the U.T. undergraduate philosophy club people would show up at his book signings at Europa Books on Gualdalupe Street and drink the free wine and bother Sterling with undergraduate philosophy questions related to cyberpunk (let it be noted that Austin officially jumped the shark when Europa Books closed down). We were pretty pleased with ourselves (free wine exacerbated this), but Mr. Sterling was always great about it, just happy to talk with kids who were passionate about life and ideas. It was really a fantastic thing for him to do and showed me something about what it means to be a good teacher, and more generally a good person.
And now Sterling just did a post at wired dot com linking to the same Harman announcement of the Edingburgh University Press series (with Harman's much expected book on Meillassoux as the first volume and to which I'm going to be submitting a proposal in April) that I linked to in my description of Speculative Realism a few days ago.
Pretty cool.
[In other speculative realism news, a nice recent post by Harman on Grant HERE, and also news that Levi Bryant's Democracy of Objects is coming out soon.]
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