Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsThe Way of the ImageTo state the obvious, an image is not the same thing as what’s in the image. I can’t find shade from a tree in a film; I can’t talk to the…Jun 161Jun 161
Daniel CoffeenTake Your TimeIf you look around, wherever you are, you’ll see so many different distributions of time, different speeds, different rhythms. Some people…May 29May 29
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsOf Mourning RitualLike many of my ilk, I’ve bucked tradition and its rituals. I’m a free spirited intellectual, after all! A philosopher, no less, who’s…Apr 4Apr 4
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsDerrida, Bitcoin, & the Play of Value (or Cryptocurrency as the Deconstruction of Money)The reigning economic system relies on the assumption of its own naturalness to deflect any possible critique. “This is just the way things…Mar 25Mar 25
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsTowards an Ecology of BeingThere are not first things and then interactions with other things. All things are intertwined with others from the get go—not later, not…Mar 251Mar 251
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsWhat Is Pleasure, Anyway?Despite the fact that pleasure is an experience everyone has surely had, it remains oddly difficult to define. Or maybe it’s precisely…Feb 6Feb 6
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsThe Grammar of Liquid in the Films of John CassavetesTo watch Cassavetes’ films is to learn a new grammar of the moving image and its sense. As viewers, we can’t rely on identification: we are…Dec 23, 2023Dec 23, 2023
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsWhat It Is to Read Philosophy: Of Birdsongs & Inhabiting Different WorldsPhilosophers don’t all see the same world then offer their own perspective. They see—they inhabit—different worlds. Like art and…Dec 23, 2023Dec 23, 2023
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsThe Push & Pull of It All: Magnetism, Mercury, CharismaOften, we imagine the world’s variety of bodies—human, animal, vegetal, geological—as discrete. Just look: we can see their limits clearly…Dec 23, 2023Dec 23, 2023
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsThe Body Between Us: Surfing Music’s Emergent BodyHow do musicians playing together know when, what, and how to play their part? After all, a song is not a moral code; it’s not a police…Nov 2, 20236Nov 2, 20236