Mike Brown's Body: New Materialism and Black Form

A New Action-Derived Form of The Black Hole Metric

Several different but equivalent forms of the spherical black hole (Schwarzschild) are known, as well as several derivations. Here a novel form is derived through the power of the action formalism. The method generalizes to any spherical black hole or brane, and the charged hole case (Reissner-Nordström) is worked out in detail. To Eitan Aharoni, my friend ever since the 7th grade, who always e...

Digital enthymeme: morality, emotions, and materialism in new media participation

In this article, I discuss moral and rhetorical challenges in new media discourse concerning celebrities. I focus on the concept of digital enthymeme, that is, an online comment evaluating people negatively or positively without articulated reasoning, but, instead, letting online participants find proofs by themselves in a digital environment surrounded by pictures, texts, links, and videos. Th...

The Mrs. Browns of Modernism

To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism

[Neurocosmetics, transhumanism and eliminative materialism: toward new ways of eugenics].

In this paper I present similarities and connections between Transhumanism and Eliminative Materialism. Concretely, I study the arguments with which in both positions it is defended a merely instrumental idea of human body and, because of that, one infinitely mouldable. First, I show the social relevance of this idea and its projections in phenomena as medicalization of human condition and, esp...