After an extended hiatus (including a long break from social media) I'm revivifying my blogging practice. Like everyone else (late to the party as usual), I've migrated to Substack. open.substack.com/pub/timothyj...

A couple of pages earlier: "This, then, gives rise to an intemperate technicism which is nothing other than idolatry of the machine and which, through this idolatry, by means of identification, leads to a technocratic aspiration to unconditional power......

Oooh, E is for exciting! New album by @wendyeyes.bsky.social’s Editrix. Teaser track is 🔥, complete with their best (I.e. gnarly as) Ribot/Sharrock homage. Get it in your ears! editrix.bandcamp.com/album/the-bi...

"The arrogance of the particle physicist and his intensive research may be behind us (the discoverer of the positron said 'the rest is chemistry'), but we have yet to recover from that of some molecular biologists, who seem determined to try to reduce everything about the human organism....

Sadly, if transdisciplinary science and philosophy ceases to be a viable career pathway…..becoming insta-famous is probably not on the cards 😭

Stop whatever you’re doing, new Ribot just dropped: marcribot.bandcamp.com/album/map-of...

The latest episode of the wonderful ABC Kid's podcast Imagine This is about venom, and features me as well as my 3-year-old daughter. This is my second appearance on the show, and it's always a great deal of fun! www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/p...

Great conversation I had yesterday with the cognitive scientist Tom Froese, about diagrammatic relationships between his "Irruption Theory", Darwin's thought, "difference-first" ontologies, and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social 's work on developmental plasticity: youtu.be/BqX4ycjv-KM?...

You think all the arbitrary specifications of the universe were introduced in one dose, in the beginning, if there was a beginning, and that the variety and complication of nature has always been just as much as it is now. But I, for my part, think that the diversification, the specification, /1

latest story for @ausgeo.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy Don't try this at home! Loved delving into the fascinating world of venom and antivenom for this story. www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/scien... thanks for the insights @tnwjackson.bsky.social 🐍

My article in @theconversation.com today w/ @tnwjackson.bsky.social discusses progress on a new antivenom for snakebite. A topic that needs ⬆️ resources, research, & gov’t commitments, esp in India, & sub-Saharan Africa where the burden of snakebite is severe. theconversation.com/super-antibo...

@andrewmurphie.bsky.social - this is from Berressem's conclusion. Very nice. I call process-relational thought both "eco-evo" and "vitalist-animist". One thing I like about Guattari, and which I am attempting to mobilise in this Machinic Pharmkoecology project, is his use of animism to explicitly...

@medias-res.bsky.social - Here's Guattari (Schizoanalytic Cartographies, p 43), apropos some of our recent exchanges on capitalism and "difference"

Digging this

Ends are constituted from difference, and then feed back upon it, shaping the stabilisation/propagation/amplification of subsets of differential variation. There not only remain bases for speaking of finality, it remains necessary to do so. A difference-first ontology enables the explanation of....

Excellent article: theconversation.com/why-de-extin...

Every time I take this three string twang box with me travelling, I come up with new music. I never really “finish” pieces, that’s not the point….neither is precision. Anyway, this a moment of musicking in Mauritius. #music #mauritius

Last night in Grand Baie, Mauritius, we were treated to an amazing performance by Menwar and band. Inspired. @neuronaraka.bsky.social you will likely dig this

Everytime I take this thing travelling with me I have to learn how to play it again, and come up with some new material. Some new strings might not be a band idea either…. This is what Mauritius elicited from me today. @helendecruz.net might enjoy

Meanwhile, in Mauritius…..

For lovers of lo-fi living room madness (if such there are), live looping and improv solo @neuronaraka.bsky.social: on.soundcloud.com/j2VYWamV8QLg...

Looking forward to reading. As long as we remember that the cybernetic (Ashby 1956) definition of organisms as thermodynamically open but organisationally (or informationally, for Ashby) is an idealisation. Real organisms are not organisationally closed.

Excellent discussion between @michaelgarfield.bsky.social and @footnotes2plato.substack.com - get it in your ears! youtu.be/eSFEYn_VZdE?...

@neuronaraka.bsky.social can’t recall if we talked about this one? intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/small-...

Never actually searched for these online before today. Y’all should probably buy them ;)

Unbeknownst to them, my wife and daughter were channeling the collective unconscious this morning, and ended up rendering this archetypal image of the katabasis of Empedocles (I rushed in and titled it right at the end)

De rerum natura

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

“….instead of understanding the subject as an operation rather than a structure, we come to see that it is an asymmetrical relation that constitutes the subject—an asymmetry between a present operation that always escapes itself and a structure that always belongs to the past. …

“In order for the normativity of a system of norms to be complete, it is necessary that within this very system its own destruction as a system and its possibility of translation into another system must be predicted according to a transduction order.” Gilbert Simondon, ILFI (p 375)

"There is a domain of knowledge of the physical and a domain of knowledge of the living; but there is not in the same sense a real domain of the physical and a real domain of the living separated by an equally real boundary; the physical and the vital are distinct according to structures......

@neuronaraka.bsky.social you probably already know this album, but it’s 🔥 cosmicputrefaction.bandcamp.com/album/emeral...

No videos on this platform….?

@neuronaraka.bsky.social know this? It’s monstrous. Reckon you’d dig. https://knollgrind.bandcamp.com/album/as-spoken

Dig. https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-three-hands-of-doom

@neuronaraka.bsky.social Was just checking out the M.O.D Reloaded BC and saw this new remaster of this absolute classic (an all-time fav for me): https://modreloaded.bandcamp.com/album/ask-the-ages-24-bit-master

39, definitely still a kid

I’ve only recently discovered Wayne Krantz. I feel like I’ve been fighting with one hand tied behind my back my whole life.

Bandcamp Friday swag. Some concerns this might be the last one - I very much hope not. Didn’t go too wild but chose to support some artists I’m in a longterm relationship with (unbeknownst to them, of course). #supportartists #bandcamp

@neuronaraka.bsky.social this might be one for you (prog-punk? Punk-prog? Jazz Metalloid? Whatever…) - https://avamendozamusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-paranoia-party

@neuronaraka.bsky.social you might dig this: https://on.soundcloud.com/tAGLbwdoWDbZKo7F7

Bandcamp Friday swag! Lots of cool stuff here….including a number of albums I’ve been listening to for a while and am finally paying for! #supportartists

@neuroyogacara.bsky.social know this one? It’s killer. https://disembowelment.bandcamp.com/album/disembowelment

@neuroyogacara.bsky.social do you know these Aussie death/doom bands? You’ll dig them if not! https://thenihilisticfront.bandcamp.com/album/a-cavernous-descent-into-filth

Shiny new paper out in Nature Communications. This is a really cool study, led by Ivan Koludarov, in which we reconstructed the history of the 3FTx family (and their ancestors) - blog to come: rdcu.be/djfyt