A Deep Adaptation Primer
This is post is intended as an perpetually evolving primer of Deep Adaptation, a framework first proposed by Dr. Jem Bendell in his July 2018 paper, “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating […]
Control/Crisis/Junk
Datawar In the comments to my previous post, Sketches on Mutant Design, RS Bakker raised an important point on the technologies insulated in the core of neoliberal functionality: “I think […]
The Good News of Collapse
The ubiquitous tropes of the neo-liberal discourse – resilience, mobility, creativity, entrepreneurial flair, individualism – exist quite happily alongside their opposites – order, security, rigidity, fortification, retrenchment. Walls, literal and […]
Bendell’s Bristol Lecture on Deep Adaptation
This Jem Bendell’s lecture on Deep Adaptation, delivered in Bristol, UK, in Feb 2019. Bendell uses a more informal format, inviting the audience to explore forms of action additional to […]
Under the Sign of Erasure
Originally posted on Southern Nights:
Capitalist realism is about a corrosion of social imagination, and in some ways, that remains the problem: after thirty years of neoliberal domination, we are…
Madhyamaka and the Problem of Approach
The following post by the writer at Holo-Poiesis addresses issues around the Buddhist concept dependent origination and its relation with similar concepts in western philosophy. It explicates a non-absolutist interpretation […]
A philo-Fiction
First Fiction: It is tempting to believe that thought, or something in thought, such as wisdom or knowledge, is accumulated and preserved: one often hears an appeal to the tradition […]
Patchwork Design For Wicked Problems?
Wholesome Design For Wicked Problems by Rob Knapp Problem: One often regards difficulties or issues as problems to be solved, but one must beware the implication that the first step […]
Exit/Sublime
A black hole. Not even light can escape. No sooner has light of a sort escaped, though (an image of the event horizon) then already it’s actual incomprehensibility is subsumed […]
