Networkologies
Online Home of Christopher Vitale, Associate Professor of Media Studies, The Graduate Program in Media Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Main Pages
- “Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age” (Zer0 Books, Fall 2014)
- Bio: Christopher Vitale
- Dowload Supplemental Texts to “Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age – A Manifesto”
- Precursor Article to “Networkologies”: “On The Metaphysics and Physics of the Networkological Endeavor” published in ‘Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism’
- Original Networkologies Manifesto from 2009 (Ver 1.0)
- Projects in Film/Video
- Projects in Music
- Blog
- Welcome to Networkologies
Recent Blog Posts:
- Murder of Black People, Structural Racism, and Trump’s Presidency Must End.
- The Time is Now: Solidarity with Anti-Racist Protest and #BlackLivesMatter.
- Month-long Zalamea Seminar starts this Week in NYC at Pratt Manhattan
- What is Philosophy? A Networkological Spin On the Age Old Question “Why”?
- Continental vs. Analytic Philosophy: Rethinking the Debate, Relativism, Objectivity, and Politics
Mini-Essays: Networks and Networkologies
- Nettime: The Philosophy, Science, and Culture of Networked Temporality
- On the Gods in Google: What Artificial Intelligence Can Tell Us About Potential Rebirths of the Sacred in Today’s Networked Age
- On Some Terms in Network Ethics: Robustness, Metaleptics, and Fundamental Maxim
- On Descriptive Philosophy, Or Beyond the Linguistic Turn, and Philosophies of Certainty: A Networkological Relational Approach
- Beyond Grasping: On Matrix, or a Networkologial Approach to the Context Beyond Context
- 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, Politics, and Fitness Landscapes: The Citizens United Supreme Court Decision
- Networks, Crises, Political Change: The BP Oil Spill
- Towards a Networked Unconscious: Lacan, Deleuze, and Fairbairn, from Film Theory to Contemporary Cognitive Science
- More on Transvidual Subjectivity: Quasi-Life from ‘The Human Mic’ to Facebook
- Parameters: A Networkological Glossary
- Manifoldness: Spacetime as Hypernetwork with Leibniz, Whitehead, and Riemann
- Resonance Machines: From Reflection to Refraction in Protest Movements, Carbon Credit Markets, and Radio Stations
Mini-Essays: Western Philosophy
- On Description, Or Beyond the Linguistic Turn, and Philosophies of Certainty: A Networkological, Relational Approach
- Reading ‘The History of Philosophy’ Symptomatically, Or, Thoughts on a Networkological Historiography of Philosophy
- Post-Foundational Mathematics as (Meta)Gaming
- Deleuze as Networkologist: ‘The Logic of Sense’ and the Networkology of Events
- Nettime: The Philosophy, Science, and Culture of Networked Temporality
- Manifoldness: Spacetime as Hypernetwork with Leibniz, Whitehead, and Riemann
- The Philosophy of the Future: Plotinus as Dynamic Set Theorist of the Virtual?!
- Object-Oriented Philosophy and Networkological Relationalism
- Continental vs. Analytic Philosophy: Rethinking the Debate, Relativism, Objectivity, and Politics
- 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
- Relations or Terms? Yes, Please! Fuzzy Set Theory and Manuel DeLanda’s A New Theory of Society
- Philosophy as/beyond Cinema: Beyond ‘Picture-Thinking’ in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’
- On Decisions: Whitehead, Privacy, Complexity
- Math as Semiotic: Mediation, Mathemes, and Politics
- On an Ungrounded Ooze: Dark Vitalism, Deleuze, and Ben Woodard’s Philosophy of Radical Disgust, Decay, and Dissolution
- Curving Spacetime Inside the Human Brain: Holographs, Spacetime Curvature, and Quantum Intensivity
- World as Medium: Or, How Self-Differing Substance makes strange bedfellows of Whitehead, Hegel, and Deleuze
- 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
- Mediology at the Quantum Scale: Quantum Physics and Object-Oriented Onticology
- 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”
- Peeling the Fuzzy Onion: On Philosophizing, Denial, and Anosognosia
- Learning From Egypt: Twelve Theses towards a Theory of Political Change
- Nondualism and Semiotics: Philosophy of Language Between East and West
- Philosophy and Education: Thoughts on Teaching Learning
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: Buddhist and Non-Western Philosophy
- Buddhism Beyond Buddhism: Tibetan Buddhism as Virtual Praxis for the Networked Age
- Non-Dualism and Semiotics: Philosophy of Language Between East and West
- 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
- The Golden Lion and Indra’s Net: Huayen Buddhism and the Refractive Embryo of Liberation Within the Fabric of the World
- 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 Primer on Advaita Vedanta, or Non-Dualist Hinduism: Or, Why Atman is Brahman, And Why We Should Care
- 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’
- The Classical Islamic World as Vanishing Mediator of ‘the West’
- Towards a Networkological History of Philosophy: Spinoza and Leibniz, and their Roots in the Islamic Philosophical Tradition
Mini-Essays: Media Studies, Film, and Visual Culture
- Surfing the Crystal: Visual Democracy and New Media
- Ars Combinatoria: Hegel’s Logic as a Chronotope for the Digital Age, Or, the Video-Gamed Image of Time
- “Pandorum” (2009): Space-Horror Film Capitalism and the Fear of a Cannibal Planet
- Book Review: “Post-Cinematic Affect,” by Steven Shaviro, Zer0 Books, 2010.
- “Battlestar Galactica” (Season 1, 2005): Refractive Cloning and Branching Temporal Networks, Part One
- Collapsing the Fuzzy Wave: Rian Johnson’s “Looper” (2012), Quantum Logics, and the Structure of Time Travel Films
- The Neo-Phallic Mother, Capitalism, and Takashi Miike’s “Audition” (1999)
- My List of 200 Great Films You Need to See, and Why
- A New Queered Gaze?: Reading “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” as Symptom of a Shift in the Male Gaze
- Philosophy as Cinema: Beyond Picture-Thinking in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’
- 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
- Algorithmicity, Islamic Art, and Virtual Philosophy: Thoughts on Laura Marks’ ‘Enfoldment and Infinity”:
- 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
- Philosophy and Education: Thoughts on Teaching Learning
- 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
- Immanent Transcendence
- 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
- Struggle Forever
- The Film Doctor
- The Hegel Diaries
- The Pinocchio theory
- Urbanomic Philosophy Journal: Collapse
- We Have Never Been Blogging
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