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Old stuff on the inductive continuum and transcendental surrealism

Talking about old papers, I found a paper I wrote years back on transcendental surrealism and how there are different inductive devices, different subjective structures for generalisation. The diversity of biases can be read as a diversity of prehensions. I found a latex version of the paper, unpublished, in latex. I've generated a pdf version without bibliography (my bib file is lost).

Soft Facts out

After 10 years, my first work with Manuel de Pinedo is out in Daimon. I'm not sure how much I agree with all that. But I reckon it can be regarded as a place from where flight can take off (in the Whiteheadian image of speculation...).

Curso en Xalapa - programa

La línea de Educación para la Sustentabilidad del Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación de la Universidad Veracruzana invita interesadas/os a inscribirse en el curso Ontografías y modos de existencia: ¿cómo componer un mundo común? Impartido por Hilan Bensusan Departamento de Filosofía Universidad de Brasilia Este es un curso sobre cómo pensar las conexiones ecológicas entre los humanos y su alrededor a partir de dos ideas clave: la idea de que se existe de diferentes modos (y no solo que hay distintas cosas que existen) y la idea de que no hay una naturaleza con fronteras ecológicamente estables. Las dos ideas están asociadas al trabajo de Bruno Latour en libros como Políticas de la naturaleza (1999), Nunca hemos sido modernos (1993) y Guerra y paz entre microbios (1984). Recientemente, Latour se ha involucrado en un proyecto – “Enquete sur les modes d’existence” (http://www.modesofexistence.org/) - que pretende investigar la modernidad para encontrar maneras de const

The ontological coconut revolution

Arriving in Zoncoantla, La Pitaya, Xalapa, Veracruz. Going through troubled times and preparing my course at the Universidad de Veracruz on Latour's project Enquête sur les modes d'existence (EME). Having very preliminary thoughts based on my latest reading on sythetic biology (see DIYbio Montréal , Call for films on synth biology , Edible batteries , The biocoding hub ). There would be no ready made Great Outdoors if everything can be recoded, revamped, recombined, re-aggregated, recomposed, renegotiated. Polemos - dispute, negotiation, conflict of alliances - doesn't stop anywhere short of the standing fact (this is one of the main theses in our updating of Heraclitean theses in the book and in the forthcoming ADCS article). The ontological question - as the ecologists feel in their practice - becomes an ethics and a politics of our interaction with (everything) non-human (around us and within us). Our action then cannot be guided by simple self-interest, because the