Ben Woodard: 'The Earth is Not the World'
Saturday 28 February
14:00 - 15:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Ben Woodard
Geophilosophy is a strand of thought most associated with Deleuze and Guattari who, in turn, take Nietzsche as their conceptual source. In his lecture Woodard argues that their notion of geophilosophy in fact erases the very subject (the Earth) that they hope to conceptually elucidate. Against this trend, he illustrates a form of geophilosophy that is true to the Earth, following the work of FWJ Schelling, C.S. Peirce, and Reza Negarestani.
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Session 8: Speculative Geophilosophy
Saturday 28 February
14:00 - 15:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Jeff VanderMeer & Benjamin H. Bratton & Ben Woodard
The geophilosophy of Ben Woodard directs the attention of philosophy to our globe, because it has ‘contoured every aspect of our material, cultural, and noetic existence’. But what is the Earth? Earth does not care for human thoughts and human civilisation. How can we truly imagine the force of the Earth, the nonhuman forces, things that defy human comprehension?