Feral Philosophy in the Funk of Life
1. Consider the term “livestock.” With one word, a sentient animal with a full emotional life and a unique personality becomes a unit of stock, and then simply “meat.” Nothing […]
The Insistence of Possibles
Towards a Speculative Pragmatism Isabelle Stengers Speculative thinking, as we seek to inherit it, is expressed for the first time, with the greatest accuracy, in Alfred North Whitehead’s exhortation “Philosophy […]
Marshall McLuhan – Laws of Media lecture, 1977
Video Transcription My topic is “Man and Media,” a topic which relates to an aspect of media on which I have been working a good deal lately. The preface to […]
Gilbert Simondon and the Process of Individuation
by Matt Bluemink To think the question of individuality is to take a step back through the history of philosophy. Throughout every philosophical epoch, thinkers have been concerned with the […]
Accelerationist possibilities in an ecosocialist degrowth scenario
by Jason Hickel “Scaling down less-necessary forms of production is powerful because it enables us to accelerate socially and ecologically necessary forms of production (and innovation!) faster than what can […]
The Earth Multiple – Towards a Climate Pluriverse?
The keynote lecture below was delivered by Dr. Martin Savransky at the STingG Symposium 2024 — an event held on June 19 at the University of Sheffield’s Arts Tower. The […]
Recursive Worlds: Life as Looping Information Through Deep Time
The lecture below was recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series. Antikythera is a research and development institute focused on understanding the […]
The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Intelligence
Shane Smith sits down with Sam Harris, philosopher, neuroscientist, and bestselling author for a deep conversation about artificial intelligence, consciousness, and the fragile future of humanity. They begin with Sam’s […]
Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation
As computation becomes planetary infrastructure, how does its acceleration of hybrid intelligences pose new challenges to fundamental philosophical questions? As machine sensing, machine cognition, machine embodiment co-evolve, how does computation […]
Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds
The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds by Adrian J. Ivakhiv | published September 2025 In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist […]
The Repetition of Generic Gnostic Matrices
By Yvette Granata [Edited version of paper presented at the Deleuze Studies Conference in Rome, July 2016.] 1.1 From ‘What is Philosophy’ to ‘Where is Non-Philosophy’? While Deleuze and Guattari’s What […]
The New Geopolitics Of Green Transition
Is the only path forward for tackling the climate crisis cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean energy investment and infrastructure development? By Bentley Allan | September 9, 2025 (original source: […]
Wasteland Commons and Three Frames of Ecological Nihilism
By Dominic Piacentini | University of Maine The Anthropocene poses new challenges to those who engage in subsistence activities. In Appalachia, as vast acres of land are either seized for […]
Agentic Collapse
by Chris Shaw | orginally published at Collapse Patchworks Modernity, equality and democracy are viruses, parasitical assemblages atop a decaying civilisational corpse. Their corollaries of identity and universality are appendages […]
Speculation for Worlds to Come
In a time of deep planetary weirding and widespread cultural and personal disorientation speculative thought is no longer just a literary genre or theoretical exercise, but a vital tool for […]
A Foray into the Ecology of Possible Worlds
By Alfredo Lozano 1. An Ecology of Possible Worlds I am often amazed to have access to satellite images with thundering evidence of our species’ capabilities to transform the environment. […]
The Adventure of Nihilism: Ray Brassier, ‘Nihil Unbound’
Review of Ray Brassier’s Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction, for Parallax 14:4 (2008), by Maya B. Kronic Perhaps familiarity has rendered ‘nihilism’ a toothless philosopheme, but philosophers themselves have lent a hand in its […]
Counter-Apocalyptica
The world, we are told, is ending. Climate collapse, mass extinction, political disintegration—the Anthropocene is branded as a singular catastrophe, the final act of civilization. But what if the end […]
The Order of Time
A lecture by renowned physicist and cosmologist Carlo Rovelli: What do past, present and future mean to a philosopher of time? In this eloquent lecture, the Italian theoretical physicist and […]
Fukushima: The geo-trauma of a futural wave
By David R. COLE, Rick DOLPHIJN, and Joff P.N. BRADLEY Introduction The authors of this article have constructed an abstract machine, dated and signed, ‘geophilosophy-futural wave-geo-trauma-Fukushima’. In this article, the […]
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