From the Ruins
“Emancipation is for us the meaning of nihilism.” – Gianni Vattimo What comes after nihilism? This question might seem impertinent given the actual state and trajectory of things. Everywhere traditional, […]
The Collapse of Change: A View from the Future
The ship’s log of Novo Potosi is an exploration of the future looking backward to recent Latin American history. Almost like an anthropology of the future, Potosi explores a dystopian […]
PROTOCOLS FOR THE PHASE TRANSITION
From THE TERRAFORMING: As new urgencies surface and new territories are defined, new alliances must be built. Inspired by the typology of starling murmuration, A.S.T. (Diann Bauer, Felice Grodin, Patricia […]
A field guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction
The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. Its scale defies comprehension, and conceals its true nature – not as one gigantic issue, but as many. In order […]
Introduction to gray sky thinking
The only time I felt hope was when you told me you could see no hope, and you continued with the analysis.” – A comment by one of Donald Winnicott’s […]
Risk, Security, Collapse: 2050
“The true worst-case scenario might be one where we don’t venture out from our safe harbors of knowledge to explore the more treacherous shores of uncertainty.” — Dr. Gavin Schmidt, […]
Explaining Possitopia
In my talk GLOBAL WYRDING & DEEP ADAPTATION I played with the idea that there is a wider spectrum of adaptive options for organizing ourselves than what can be gleaned […]
China Miéville: Limits of Utopia
China Miéville, award-winning science fiction author and associate professor of creative writing at Warwick University in England, speaks on “the limits of utopia,” exploring links between environmentalism and social justice […]
Bright Power, Dark Peace
Bright Power, Dark Peace By Erik Reece Robinson Jeffers and the hope of human extinction From the September 2020 issue | Download PDF On a clear October day, I walked to […]
Paul Kingsnorth on Dark Ecology
Originally Published in Orion Magazine (2012): “Take the only tree that’s left,Stuff it up the hole in your culture.” —Leonard Cohen “Retreat to the desert, and fight.” —D. H. Lawrence […]
Existenzial Inflections
From Simon O’Sullivan: “In relation to an explicit politics, this non-engagement with the affective complexities of life means accelerationism offers only a partial picture of the issues and problems at […]
Preparing for the end of the world as we know it
From the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is a collective of researchers, artists, educators, activists and Indigenous knowledge keepers from the Global North and South. […]
Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordances
Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordancesby Manuel Heras-Escribano (June 2020) Affordances, or the possibilities for acting in our environments, are pervasive in everyday life. We are constantly surrounded by them: […]
The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman
The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures after Property and Possession seeks to interrogate the relation between race, sexuality, and juridical and theological ideas of self-possession, often evidenced by the couplet of […]
Bill Rees on Avoiding Ecological Collapse
Dr. Bill Rees coined the term “Ecological Footprint”, and has gained considerable respect in the field of ecology over a long career. Which is to say he is not a […]
Baudrillard & Fatal Strategies
This video is 8th in the 8-part video lecture series, The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1993). I. The task of creating a life with the “self […]
Abdou Maliq Simone on Feral Urbanism
“The feral city is a city given over to the instigation of incomputable eventualities, even as regimes of calculation have taken over the production of urban space.” — Abdou Maliq […]
deep adaptation as post-nihilist praxis?
There is a long line of thinking and writing that frames ideological negation as emancipatory, or as an advancement of cognitive ability towards a more fluid interpretation of experience that, […]
The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
“History is not a race with a finish line — and if we make it one, it’s a game we will lose. Instead, history ought to be seen as a […]
Covid Fallout (2)
Throughout the Covid crisis, the use of the war metaphor, as means of persuasion and matrix of explanation, has become pervasive in politics and the popular media. Both practices have […]
Insurrection & Infrastructure: a Dual Power Guide for Leftists in the British Isles
“Complex challenges require intelligent solutions. We are now faced with the problem of how to , in the words of Stafford Beer, creat a “liberty machine in protoype”. Dual Power, […]
