Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism
Kohei Saito offers a unique and groundbreaking interpretation of Marx’s Capital as “a book about metabolism between humans and nature”. As Saito explains, Capital’s logic of infinite accumulation creates an […]
Kohei Saito offers a unique and groundbreaking interpretation of Marx’s Capital as “a book about metabolism between humans and nature”. As Saito explains, Capital’s logic of infinite accumulation creates an […]
by ERIC SCHLIESSER on JANUARY 30, 2024 When I first published on what I call ‘synthetic philosophy’ back in 2019, I presented the two key components of the view in such a way that it […]
JUNE 17, 2021 Benjamin Bratton is a professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, and the director of the terraforming program at the Strelka Institute in […]
frag_10_2023 The most recent IPCC reports were supposed to put an end to the fictitious debate about the empirical reality of human-made climate change, and instead shift the focus too […]
There’s something still latent in the patchwork discourse that needs to be revisited. As Patrick suggested in this post, going from abstraction to intention, theory to praxis, in real contexts […]
The apotheosis of Corporate-State Apparatus will be our final catastrophe. Capitalism is no longer merely the dominant ideological form, it is a black hole consuming the entire world.
Originally posted on Dengie Bioregion:
There was a heat dome over the north. It was in the news about the USA and Canada, but it’s also been in the Russian…
In ‘Global Weirding & Deep Adaptation‘ I played with the suggestion that there is a wider spectrum of options for envisioning the future than what can be gleaned from two of […]
Introduction In 2020, I got hold of the slim Artscience (2021) by the Malaysian physicist turned writer and speculative designer Clarissa Lee. Subtitled A Curious Education, the unusual format brings together reflections on […]
Ten thousand years of agriculture has devastated every ecosystem it has come in contact with. Horticultural societies point toward a solution, and permaculture can help us design a way to […]
Fabian Scheidler in conversation w/ Professor Richard D. Wolff on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff about “The End of the #Megamachine”, tipping points in the Earth system, social movements, […]
By Craig Collins [original source] As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust. But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase. Growth-less capitalism turns catabolic. The […]
Every city has its graveyard of community groups. Without a strategic vision, local projects cannot possibly amount to a systemic alternative to capitalism. April 28, 2018 “Another world is not […]
by Ally Bisshop When Johann von Goethe wrote his 1790 treatise on the metamorphosis of plants,[1] he invited us to read in the form of a plant the signs of […]
“Collapse is a broad term that can cover many kinds of processes. It means different things to different people. Some see collapse as a thing that could happen only to […]
The Impossible WE? by Jonathan Rowson (original source: Emerge) A bigger ‘we’ is often called upon to take collective action to address our burning global emergencies. But ‘we’ is the […]
An essay by philosopher Amy Ireland. Text source here. Originally published in the exhibition catalogue for Andre Škufca’s Black Market, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, 2020. “You’re absolutely right. […]
This paper by Andrew Pickering is a revised version of a talk given at Oxford University, February 2, 2012, as part of a series of Linacre Lectures on “Environmental Governance […]
From the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories, August 29th, 2021. Published in Ill Will: Preface For four years, the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories […]
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