Tano S Posteraro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1680679 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tano S Posteraro |
| NOMBRES | Tano S |
| APELLIDO | Posteraro |
| FIRMA | POSTERARO T S |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Bergson's Philosophy of Biology
Reconstructs Bergson’s philosophy of biology in dialogue with the life sciences of today Critically reappraises Bergson’s evolutionary metaphysics Includes summaries, interpretations and evaluations of Bergson’s various engagements with evolutionary theory Provides a counterpoint to the traditional understanding of Bergson as a phenomenologist Offers a critical rejoinder to Bergson's reputation as a metaphysical vitalist by bringing his work into…
Assemblage Theory and the Two Poles of Organic Life
This paper introduces Deleuze and Guattari's assemblage theory into the contemporary biological context. I begin by laying out at some length what I take to be the defining features of Deleuze and Guattari's theory of assemblage. I consider this to be a worthwhile endeavour in its own right, and so dedicate a large portion of this paper to producing a clear account of what it is that characterises an assemblage. Then I provide a reading of Deleuz…
Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory
Engages with the post-Darwinian biology central to Deleuze and Guattari’s ecological thought Finds a strong convergence in Deleuze and Guattari’s work with new directions in evolutionary theory Thinking about the symbiosis between philosophy and science in new ways Summarises, interprets and evaluates of Deleuze’s relationship to evolutionary theory, from Darwin through Ruyer Resists a straightforward characterisation of Deleuze as a critic of ev…
Introduction
Instinct, Consciousness, Life
The question of Ruyer's relationship to Bergson remains under-theorized. This article attempts to address that problem by introducing a little-known essay written by Ruyer on the topic of Bergson's theory of vital sympathy, "Bergson et le Sphex ammophile," which appeared in 1959, one year after the publication of La Genèse des formes vivantes and the completion of Ruyer's systematic philosophy of biology. An English translation of the essay appea…
Canalization and Creative Evolution
Whitehead famously wrote that the status of life in nature constituted the modernproblem both of philosophy and science. But Bergson could just as easily have penned thosewords. Indeed, his Creative Evolution stands as one of the most serious engagements with theproblem of life in recent philosophical history. Life, for Bergson, was to be thought of as a kindof impetus, a drive or force. But he insisted that this was only an image borrowed fromps…
To Save Materialism from Itself. A review of Elizabeth Grosz, The Incorporeal
To Save Materialism from Itself. A review of Elizabeth Grosz, The Incorporeal:Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism Tano S. Posteraro (bio) Grosz, Elizabeth. The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism. New York: Columbia UP, 2017. "Materialism" functions today as an obligatory academic shibboleth. Against the somatophobia of the Western philosophical canon, many consider this a welcome relief. Elizabeth Grosz has h…
Do Not Just Do as I Do
What does it mean for philosophy to take seriously the chaos that haunts and threatens to undermine the fleetingly static formations that populate our epistemological landscapes? What does it mean to learn, think and know on a plane detached from transcendent truths, from recognition and representation, from the inverted image of falsity? We risk badly mangling our answers to these questions so long as we take for granted the orthodoxal image of …
On the Utility of Virtuality for Relating Abilities and Affordances
This article introduces the concept of virtuality into the question of the ontological status of ability-affordance relations in ecological psychology. By differentiating concrete affordances and animal activities from the somatic-environmental networks they actualize, I argue that ecological-psychological thought is brought into a better position from which to think the ability-affordance relation as a ground for the developmental entanglements …
Organismic Spatiality
The task of this paper is the construction of a theory of organismic spatiality. I take as a starting point Gilles Deleuze's reference in The Logic of Sense to Gilbert Simondon's concept of the membrane. The membrane is a dynamically topological limit between the organism's milieus of interiority and exteriority-the first moment of organismic spatiality. It is the foundation of the organism as an entity spatially distinct from its environment. Th…
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On the Utility of Virtuality for Relating Abilities and Affordances
This article introduces the concept of virtuality into the question of the ontological status of ability-affordance relations in ecological psychology. By differentiating concrete affordances and animal activities from the somatic-environmental networks they actualize, I argue that ecological-psychological thought is brought into a better position from which to think the ability-affordance relation as a ground for the developmental entanglements …
Organismic Spatiality
The task of this paper is the construction of a theory of organismic spatiality. I take as a starting point Gilles Deleuze's reference in The Logic of Sense to Gilbert Simondon's concept of the membrane. The membrane is a dynamically topological limit between the organism's milieus of interiority and exteriority-the first moment of organismic spatiality. It is the foundation of the organism as an entity spatially distinct from its environment. Th…
Do Not Just Do as I Do
What does it mean for philosophy to take seriously the chaos that haunts and threatens to undermine the fleetingly static formations that populate our epistemological landscapes? What does it mean to learn, think and know on a plane detached from transcendent truths, from recognition and representation, from the inverted image of falsity? We risk badly mangling our answers to these questions so long as we take for granted the orthodoxal image of …
To Save Materialism from Itself. A review of Elizabeth Grosz, The Incorporeal
To Save Materialism from Itself. A review of Elizabeth Grosz, The Incorporeal:Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism Tano S. Posteraro (bio) Grosz, Elizabeth. The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism. New York: Columbia UP, 2017. "Materialism" functions today as an obligatory academic shibboleth. Against the somatophobia of the Western philosophical canon, many consider this a welcome relief. Elizabeth Grosz has h…
Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory
Engages with the post-Darwinian biology central to Deleuze and Guattari’s ecological thought Finds a strong convergence in Deleuze and Guattari’s work with new directions in evolutionary theory Thinking about the symbiosis between philosophy and science in new ways Summarises, interprets and evaluates of Deleuze’s relationship to evolutionary theory, from Darwin through Ruyer Resists a straightforward characterisation of Deleuze as a critic of ev…
Introduction
Instinct, Consciousness, Life
The question of Ruyer's relationship to Bergson remains under-theorized. This article attempts to address that problem by introducing a little-known essay written by Ruyer on the topic of Bergson's theory of vital sympathy, "Bergson et le Sphex ammophile," which appeared in 1959, one year after the publication of La Genèse des formes vivantes and the completion of Ruyer's systematic philosophy of biology. An English translation of the essay appea…
Canalization and Creative Evolution
Whitehead famously wrote that the status of life in nature constituted the modernproblem both of philosophy and science. But Bergson could just as easily have penned thosewords. Indeed, his Creative Evolution stands as one of the most serious engagements with theproblem of life in recent philosophical history. Life, for Bergson, was to be thought of as a kindof impetus, a drive or force. But he insisted that this was only an image borrowed fromps…
Assemblage Theory and the Two Poles of Organic Life
This paper introduces Deleuze and Guattari's assemblage theory into the contemporary biological context. I begin by laying out at some length what I take to be the defining features of Deleuze and Guattari's theory of assemblage. I consider this to be a worthwhile endeavour in its own right, and so dedicate a large portion of this paper to producing a clear account of what it is that characterises an assemblage. Then I provide a reading of Deleuz…
Bergson's Philosophy of Biology
Reconstructs Bergson’s philosophy of biology in dialogue with the life sciences of today Critically reappraises Bergson’s evolutionary metaphysics Includes summaries, interpretations and evaluations of Bergson’s various engagements with evolutionary theory Provides a counterpoint to the traditional understanding of Bergson as a phenomenologist Offers a critical rejoinder to Bergson's reputation as a metaphysical vitalist by bringing his work into…
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