Dialectical Systems

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➡️New book review out⬅️ "Evolution at a Tipping Point" by Enrico Petracca A review of "Evolution Evolving" by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman & Scott Gilbert Free reading link: rdcu.be/eq9j0

Spotted in the wild! 👀 (courtesy of @camrobjones at the @mitpress book store)

Since its beginnings, the enactive approach has shown how autonomy is scaffolded across biological, sensorimotor, and social dimensions. This new video interview with Ezequiel Di Paolo tells the story in an accessible way: youtube.com/watch?v=y4DzMq…

Integrating dialectical insights into cognitive science has driven advances in the enactive approach. This new paper opens a dialogue between enaction and Marxism, highlighting labor as a form of an ecological and distributed cognition link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Presentazione del libro "La logica del capitale" di Roberto Fineschi youtube.com/live/QxIfEZMsT… via @YouTube #karlmarx #capitale #dialettica

Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy by Professor Christoph Schuring A new reading of Marx's overall intellectual project in terms of his claim to bring about the 'actualization of philosophy'. 📚 cup.org/3XOaw1a

New Cambridge Element The Organism by Jan Baedke out now! Read Open Access at cup.org/4e7eKHX #cambridgeelements #openaccess #philosophy

I wrote a blog post for @VersoBooks on writing a social history of analytic philosophy versobooks.com/blogs/news/on-…

Forthcoming: Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, The Science of Social Consciousness By Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov brill.com/display/title/…

Today we celebrate the new edition of Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979) from MIT Press, with a new critical apparatus by Ezequiel Di Paolo & Evan Thompson, reconnecting Varela's legacy in cognitive science to his theoretical biology dialecticalsystems.eu/publications/n…

Summer in the City - mailchi.mp/90b2c9425e32/n…

I enjoyed very much giving a talk on Schelling’s early writings with my friend and colleague Jim Kreines at the Schelling Congress in Munich this week. We could meet a lot of old and new friends, such as the great @GregorySMoss2, Hannes Schülein, Marcela García & Alois Wieshuber

The idea that there is an “ecological” turn in Marx between the Manifesto and Capital, via his engagement with Liebig’s work on soil degradation, rests on a complete neglect of his Aristotelian-Hegelian theory of nature from 1844. This is Marxology at its academicist worst. 1/

➡️New issue now out!⬅️ Our special issue on "D'Arcy Thompson's Conceptual Legacy" guest edited by Alan Love & Sahotra Sarkar is now out. See everything in the June issue here: link.springer.com/journal/13752/…

Very dialectical fellas

June 26-28, 1st Historical Materialism Paris Conference schedule is online: hmparis.org/le-programme/

Next Friday at 13:00, we will have the pleasure of welcoming 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐎. 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬-𝐆𝐮𝐳𝐦𝐚́𝐧 (@cowilchesg) at IAS Seminar, who will be giving a talk entitled "Trust despite limit situations: Towards an enactive approach to resilience in mental health"

Embodied & enactive approaches aren’t just about individual cognition — they’re about society. A new Mind & Society special issue brings enactivism into conversation with ethics, social theory & political philosophy. dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

Tomorrow in London: Marx and Philosophy thephilosopher1923.org/events/marx-an…