Year: 2021
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Serres on Composition before Latour
Bruno Latour’s excellent ecological praise of composition (“compositionalist manifesto”) was inspired by Michel Serres’ book The Five Senses, in which we read (p. 239 of the Continuum edition): Creativity is as old as the landscape, lost Antiquity and the senses. Redeemed all at once and integrated through the word. Do not seek to know how…
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Publication: The healing-growth future of humanity: regenerative politics and crealectic care
Luis de Miranda DOI: https://doi.org/10.18820/24150479/%20aa53i2/8 Keywords: pandemic, regenerative politics, crealectics, future, naturing nature, healing growth, Creal Abstract The 2020 coronavirus pandemic served to remind us that despite our Cartesian fantasies of control, naturing nature (natura naturans) is still active in the form of an untamed Other. The dominant reaction on most political sides was anthropocentric:…
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Lacan, Castanet, Landman contre la neuroscience
L’homme qui a préfacé mon livre sur Lacan réuni avec l’homme qui fut mon formateur en psychanalyse pour débattre sur un plateau de luxe dans un programme qui se nomme “Studio Lacan”. Voilà qui est “créel”…
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Co-Creating the Real
Announcing the publication of an article written in the form of a dialogue with Vlad Glaveanu. Qualitative Inquiry Journal, accessible here: Co-Creating the Real: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue Glăveanu VP, de Miranda L. Co-Creating the Real: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue. Qualitative Inquiry. December 2021. doi:10.1177/10778004211063617
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The Regenerocene: How Not To “Think Human First” in a Philosophically Healthy World
A talk by Luis de Miranda given at the ECT Lab+ conference Techne logos and the (Neg) Anthropocene 9th – 10th of December 2021 TU Dublin “The first annual conference hosted by the European University of Technology and organized by the European culture and technology Laboratory ‘ECT Lab+’ aims to bring together experts from Arts,…
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On Destiny, Improvisation and How It Relates to Philosophical Health
Improvisation is an understudied topic in philosophy in general and in philosophical practice in particular. In the context of philosophical counseling and philosophical health, it might be believed that a more reflexive and rationalized form of living might involve less spontaneity. There is a general assumption since Thales that the philosopher is not attentive to…
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First International Conference on Philosophical Counseling in India
Join us! Join them! Join yourself! Delighted to contribute as a keynote speaker to the International Conference on Philosophical Counseling, University of Delhi, India, 14-16 January 2022, organised by Professor Balaganapathi Devarakonda and colleagues.
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Review of Being and Neonness by Professor Jeffrey Meikle
in CHOICE MAGAZINE, Copyright American Library Association. This slim volume of philosophical musings masquerading as a cultural history of neon lighting is reminiscent of Jean Baudrillard’s America (1988). Like Baudrillard, Miranda draws metaphoric significance from contemporary technology and delivers scintillating but quirky pronouncements. Regarding the incandescent light bulb, for example, he remarks that “by domesticating…
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