Networkologies
Online Home of Christopher Vitale, Assistant Professor, Media and Critical/Visual Studies, Pratt Institute.
Main Pages
- Blog
- Bio: Christopher Vitale
- Networkologies – A Manifesto (Version 1.0)
- Article: “On The Metaphysics and Physics of the Networkological Endeavor: An Introduction”
- Book Manuscript: “Networkologies: A New Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age” (Vol. I, Zer0 Books, Fall 2012)
- Work in Progress: “The Networked Mind: Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Post- Structuralist Philosophy”
- Projected Texts: “The Networked Image: Lacan, Deleuze, Film, and Beyond” and “Nodularities: Towards a Networked Culture”
- Excerpts from the book manuscript of “Networkologies, Vol. I”
- Work in Film/Video
- Miscellaneous Attractors
- Welcome to Networkologies
Recent Blog Posts:
- Thoughts on Immortality: From a Skeptical Philosopher Who Doesn’t Want to Be Decieved, But Sees Potential in Ibn Arabi, and Spacetime Smearing
- The Metaphysics of Refraction in Sufi Philosophy: Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi, and Mulla Sadra Shirazi
- Fana’: Sufism’s Notion of Self-Annihilation, or How Rumi Can Explain Why Nirvana is Samsara in Mahayana Buddhism
- Emerging: Or, Why Buddhist Dharma is Like Identification With the Deleuzian Virtual In and Through the Lacanian Object a . . .
- Buddhism as Practice of Desire: On Non-Dualism and Nirvana
Mini-Essays: Networks and Networkologies
- Resonance Machines: From Reflection to Refraction in Protest Movements, Carbon Credit Markets, and Radio Stations
- On Some Terms in Network Ethics: Robustness, Metaleptics, and Fundamental Maxim
- On Descriptive Philosophy, Or Beyond the Linguistic Turn: A Networkological Approach
- More on Transvidual Subjectivity: Quasi-Life from ‘The Human Mic’ to Facebook
- What does it Mean to Exist? A Thought in One (Complex, Networkological) Paragraph
- The Democracy of Matter, Part I: Emergence
- The Democracy of Matter, Part II: Complexity
- On Extimacy: A Recent Excerpt from the Manifesto Manuscript
- Networks, Crises, Political Change: The BP Oil Spill
- Networks, Politics, and Fitness Landscapes: The Citizens United Supreme Court Decision
- Towards a Networked Unconscious: Lacan, Deleuze, and Fairbairn, from Film Theory to Contemporary Cognitive Science
- Manifoldness: Spacetime as Hypernetwork with Leibniz, Whitehead, and Riemann
- Parameters: A Networkological Glossary
Mini-Essays: Philosophy (Western)
- Deleuze as Networkologist: ‘The Logic of Sense’ and the Networkology of Events
- Reading ‘The History of Philosophy’ Symptomatically, Or, Thoughts on a Networkological Historiography of Philosophy
- The Philosophy of the Future: Plotinus as Dynamic Set Theorist of the Virtual?!
- Manifoldness: Spacetime as Hypernetwork with Leibniz, Whitehead, and Riemann
- Philosopher as Spiritual Physician? Pierre Hadot, Ancient Greek Philosophy, and Relational Psychotherapy
- Philosophical Therapeautics: Pierre Hadot and Ancient Philosophy as Way of Life in Stoicism and Epicureanism
- On Decisions: Whitehead, Privacy, Complexity
- Peeling the Fuzzy Onion: On Philosophizing, Denial, and Anosognosia
- Learning From Egypt: Twelve Theses towards a Theory of Political Change
- Relations or Terms? Yes, Please! Fuzzy Set Theory and Manuel DeLanda’s A New Theory of Society
- Math as Semiotic: Mediation, Mathemes, and Politics
- Fractals and Time: Not as Fluffy As You Think . . ., Part 1
- Fractals and Time, Part 2: Spacetime Smearing and Crystalline Time
- Fractals and Time, Part 3: Unfolding, Timeless Time, and Holography
- Fractals and Time, Part 4: Light, Matter, and Memory
- Object-Oriented Philosophy and Networkological Relationalism
- Mediology at the Quantum Scale: Quantum Physics and Object-Oriented Onticology
- World as Medium: Or, How Self-Differing Substance makes strange bedfellows of Whitehead, Hegel, and Deleuze
- On Symbolic Efficacy and Algorithmic Capture
- More on Apparatus of Capture: Carving the World at the Seams with the Semiotics of Hjelmslev and Uexkuell
- Thoughts on the Ethics of Micro and Macro Subjectivity
- Understanding the History of Post-Structuralism via Vanishing Mediators and Anxieties of Influence, Part I: From Brunschvicg to Bachelard, and a detour via the Jazz Age
- How Hermes Trismegistus Warped the History of Philosophy, Or Why Nobody Reads Plotinus Today
- Algorithmicity, Islamic Art, and Virtual Philosophy: Thoughts on Laura Marks’ ‘Enfoldment and Infinity”
Mini-Essays: Full Online Guide to Reading Deleuze’s Cinema Books
- Guide to The Movement-Image, Part I: Worldslicing, or from the Movement-Image to the Affection-Image
- Guide to The Movement-Image, Part II: From the Affect-Image to the Relation-Image
- Guide to The Time-Image, Part I: From Time-Images to Image Crystals
- Guide to The Time-Image, Part II: From Image Crystals to the Powers of the False
- Guide to the Time-Image, Part III: Cinema of Thought, Reading, and Political Worldmaking
- Final Thoughts on the Cinema Books: Reareading the World (and Film) as a Layered Network of Images and Signs
- Deleuze as Logician of the Virtual: Reading the Cinema Books off Hegel’s ‘Logic’
- Applying Deleuze’s Cinema Books: On Hyalo-Signs and Crystal Images
Mini-Essays: Hegel
- Why Hegel Should Matter for Speculative Realists (Despite What Deleuze Thinks!)
- Deleuzo-Hegelianism?!: A Conceptual Experiment, via Jean Hyppolite
- Why Do We Fear Hegel So Much? Thinking Praxis in the Age of the World-System, or Hegel’s Vanishing Ladder
- The Great Anxiety of Influence of Post-Structuralism: Jean Hyppolite’s Book on Hegel “Logic and Existence” (1952) as Vanishing Mediator
- Philosophy as Cinema: Beyond Picture-Thinking in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’
- Ars Combinatoria: Or, Hegel’s Logic as Chronotope for the Digital Age
- Deleuze as Logician of the Virtual: Reading the Cinema Books off Hegel’s ‘Logic’
- Pinkard’s biography of Hegel: Bourgeosie Functionary or Revolutionary?
Mini-Essays: Philosophy (Non-Western)
- Buddhism Beyond Buddhism: Reimagining Tibetan Buddhism as Virtual Praxis for the Networked Age
- Wrestling with the World in Virtual Reality: A Deleuzian, Anti-Essentialist, Relational Reading of Classical Buddhism as the Radical Practice of Freedom and Desire
- Buddhism as Practice of Desire: On Non-Dualism and Nirvana
- Emerging: Or, Why Buddhist Dharma is Like Identification With the Deleuzian Virtual In and Through the Lacanian Object a . . .
- Knowing your Buddhisms: Distinguishing the Vehicles of Therevada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Beyond…
- A Brief Map of Indic Thought: Knowing Tantra from Krishna and Vedanta and Beyond
- Fana’: Sufism’s Notion of Self-Annihilation, or Or How Rumi Can Explain Why Nirvana is Samsara in Mahayana Buddhism
- The Metaphysics of Refraction in Sufi Philosophy: Ibn Arabi, Suhrawadri, and Mulla Sadra Shirazi
- Algorithmicity, Islamic Art, and Virtual Philosophy: Thoughts on Laura Marks’ ‘Enfoldment and Infinity’
- Towards a Networkological History of Philosophy: Spinoza and Leibniz, and their Roots in the Islamic Philosophical Tradition
- The Classical Islamic World as Vanishing Mediator of ‘the West’
Mini-Essays: Film and Visual Culture
- Towards a Cinema of Affects: A Manifesto, Part I – From Film-World to Film-Art
- Towards a Cinema of Affects: A Manifesto, Part II – Characters, Objects, Plots, Settings
- Surfing the Crystal: Visual Democracy and New Media
- Pandorum: Capitalism and the Fear of a Cannibal Planet
- A New Queered Gaze?: Reading “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” as Symptom of a Shift in the Male Gaze
- The Neo-Phallic Mother, Capitalism, and Takashi Miike’s Audition
- Ars Combinatoria: Hegel’s Logic as a Chronotope for the Digital Age, Or, the Video-Gamed Image of Time
- Philosophy as Cinema: Beyond Picture-Thinking in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’
- Algorithmicity, Islamic Art, and Virtual Philosophy: Thoughts on Laura Marks’ ‘Enfoldment and Infinity”:
- Guilty Pleasure: My List of 200 Great Films You Need to See, and Why
- Guilty Pleasure: Meta-Thoughts on Genre and HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’
Mini-Essays: Gender, Sexuality, Race, Politics
- Porn Studies, Kink Studies, and the Politics of the Erotic Imaginary, Part I: From Linda Williams to Kink.com
- A Mutation of the ‘Human Mic’ as a Radical New Type of Political Subjectivity
- A New Queered Gaze?: Reading “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” as Symptom of a Shift in the Male Gaze
- Cross-Activism: Occupy Wall Street Becomes Occupy our Homes, Addresses the Racialization of Poverty, and Ressurects the Legacy of May ’68
- The ‘Economy Gods’ Don’t Exist: Reflections on Spain, why “America Is Not Broke”, and our Manufactured Economic Crisis of the Imaginary
- The Slope of Violence and the Implied Gaze: UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident, Army Killings of Protesters in Egypt, and Recognizing Systems that Encourage Violence
- Learning from Egypt: Twelve Theses towards a Theory of Political Change
- Thoughts on Gay Pride, Or Why Lady Gaga is Ruining ‘Us’
- Sexuality: A Euro-American Export
- Guatemala and Media Theory/Strategy
- Queer Mediations: Thoughts on Queer Media Theory
- White Privilege and the Politics of the Midnight Snack
Mini-Essays: Personal, Misc.
- My List of 200 Great Films You Need to See, and Why
- My List of Great of Non-Fiction Books: Learn About Everything . . .
- Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math and Science Like a Foreign Language
- Some Advice on Getting a Lot of Academic/Dissertation Writing Done
- How Do I Improve My Paper Writing? A Guide to Writing for Students
- To my Students: On that annoying year after you graduate college . . .
- My Philosophical Autobiography
- On Being in Several Rush and Pink Floyd Cover Bands
My Other Project Sites
Sites
- Acidemic: Journal of Film and Media
- An Uncanny Ontology
- Anodyne Lite
- Another Heidegger Blog
- anthem
- archive fire
- Barred Subject ($)
- Brian Rotman
- Complete Lies
- Continental Philosophy
- DailyKos (major US lefty political blog)
- Deontologistics
- Eliminative Culinarism
- Fractal Ontology
- Haunted Geographies
- http://www.markamerika.com/
- Hypertiling
- Ian Bogost
- Immanence
- Indieoma
- Infinite Thought
- Je est un Autre
- Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
- Larval Subjects
- Machinology
- Minds and Brains
- Naught Thought
- Net Critique
- Object-Oriented Philosophy
- Pagan Metaphysics
- Philosophy in a Time of Error (Peter Gratton)
- Planomenology
- Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy
- Poetix
- Premediation
- Robert Wright
- Sean Cubitt
- Speculative Heresy
- Speculative Humbug
- Speculum Criticum
- The Film Doctor
- The Hegel Diaries
- The Pinocchio theory
- Urbanomic Philosophy Journal: Collapse
- We Have Never Been Blogging
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