Objects in the mirror appear closer than they are / Lynn Meskell -- A materialist approach to materiality / Michael Rowlands -- Some properties of art and culture : ontologies of the image and economics of exchange / Fred Myers -- Sticky subjects and sticky objects : the substan…
"Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the center of today's important scientific and cultural as well as philosophical debates, following the inroads being made by contemporary neuroscience on such issues as the nature of consciousness, the body's role…
Cub. post.: "Depuis plusieurs anneés, les "nouveaux reálismes" sont au cœur d'un vif deb́at philosophique. Ce livre y prend part en faisant la critique de l'une de leurs principales variet́eś, le " mateŕialisme spećulatif " de Quentin Meillassoux (auteur, en 2006, de Apres̀ la fini…
Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the first time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it offer today? The term is usually defined as the worldview according to which everything real i…
