Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsIdentity Politics, Solidarity, and Judith Butler’s notion of the Body in “Mistaken Identity”I just finished reading Asad Haider’s book Mistaken Identity and I want to use it as an excuse to work through a critique of Butler that…Jul 23, 2018Jul 23, 2018
Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsHeidegger, Barad, and Agential Realist ResponsibilityAs Luigi Pellizzoni points out in a recent book, Heidegger is a difficult figure to situate within the ongoing discourse of critical…Aug 27, 2017Aug 27, 2017
Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsDynamic Homogeniety: A Short Talk on Jane Bennett’s Vibrant MatterThe following is a very short thing written for a panel discussion on posthuman conceptions of community at the university of manitoba, 3…Feb 4, 2017Feb 4, 2017
Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsYou Never Leave The Mall: On Grafton Tanner’s Babbling CorpseI spent the afternoon yesterday reading through Grafton Tanner’s Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. It’s a fun…Jan 24, 20171Jan 24, 20171
Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsCruel Mysticism: The Construction of the Spiritual Consumer in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray LoveIt’s a weirdly affecting experience to browse the Amazon reviews for Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love. For many people, this book has…Nov 12, 20161Nov 12, 20161
Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsResponsive Performativity, or Why Ryder Ripps is the [something] of [something else]Ryder Ripps is an internet artist who I’ve been aware of, and interested in to varying degrees, for maybe four years. His work is…Oct 22, 2016Oct 22, 2016
Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsWilliam James’ Agential RealismWilliam James, in his 1904 APA presidential address on “The Experience of Activity” (later reprinted in his Essays In Radical Empiricism)…May 20, 2016May 20, 2016
Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsFreedom From What: Bauman’s Notion of EmancipationIn the opening chapter of Liquid Modernity, Zygmunt Bauman offers a fairly bleak portrait of the relationship between the individual and…May 11, 2016May 11, 2016
Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsSummary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 4)Chapter 4Jun 22, 20152Jun 22, 20152
Dave ShawinOpen ObjectsSummary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 3)(read part 1 here, or part 2 here, if you want)Jun 22, 2015Jun 22, 2015