Patchworking The Future (2): The Use and Abuse of Models
In response to recent pushback on patchwork theory Xenogothic asks the following questions: perhaps the problem here is the very thinking of patchwork as a model in the first place… […]
Patchworking The Future (1): Querying the Local
In this series I’m attempting to explore some preliminary issues related to developing a communistic vision of patchwork that doesn’t rely on standard conceptions of how we might transition from […]
Polanyi’s The Great Transformation – a summary
From Asad Zaman Professor, Economist and currently Vice Chancellor of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad: Ever since the spectacular failure of modern economic theory became obvious to all in […]
Utopia and Climate Change
Utopia and Climate Change // David Ruccio The warnings about the consequences of global warming are becoming increasingly dire. And with good reason. Just last month, a report by a multidisciplinary […]
Wyrd Patchwork?
I’m going to be phoning it in to Prague on Saturday afternoon, talking about the wyrd and the weird in relation to patchwork; the gothic as a speculative aesthetics that […]
Politics Down To Earth
“Right and Left have ceased to function today because they have failed to specify the material framework through which to differentiate themselves from each other. Ecological change obliges us to […]
The Transcendental Object At The End Of Time
This documentary was created by Peter Bergmann. I’ll have more comments on this at some point, but for now I leave it here as something to consider. I would enjoy […]
Wittgenstein and The Limits of Thought
Theory Thursdays anyone? Below is an introduction to the life, work, and legacy of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. There is little doubt that he was a towering figure of the […]
Ecological Realism as Ontographic Sincerity (1)
Below are some thoughts I had while reflecting on a new paper from Katrina Kolozova available here. This passage in particular set off an avalanche of pondering: In order to circumvent the […]
