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Tarrying With The Possible?

February 24, 2023by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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How to Deal with Cosmoecological Perplexities

January 27, 2023by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Jensen

Why Agriculture Can Never Be Sustainable

May 13, 2022by ||| 2 Comments

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 […]

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Hemenway

The End of the Megamachine?

February 24, 2022by ||| Leave a comment

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, […]

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Wolff

Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance

January 5, 2022by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Collins

How to build a new world in the shell of the old

December 20, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Arendt

SYMBIOTIC SKINS, METABOLIC SCHEMA

October 12, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Bisshop

Joseph Tainter on ‘Collapse’

October 7, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

“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 […]

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Tainter

The Impossible WE?

October 5, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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The Infinite Sales Bay of the Universe

October 4, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

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. […]

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Ireland

Being In An Environment: a performative perspective

October 4, 2021by ||| 1 Comment

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 […]

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Pickering

Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution

September 28, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

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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Wild Things: A Conversation with Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett

September 3, 2021by ||| 6 Comments

Below Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett meet in a vibratory encounter designed not to explain or judge but to dilate, to influence, and to disorder. They speak of desire and […]

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Bennett, Halberstam

Leaked UN report lays bare catastrophic effects of planetary heating

June 24, 2021by ||| 5 Comments

Eighty million more to starve Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change analysis warns of collapse in food production. A leaked draft report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

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Dark anthropocentrism

June 4, 2021by muhall Leave a comment

THE SEA, THE SEA Although Rachel Carson is known primarily for her revolutionary monograph, Silent Spring (1962), often credited with stimulating the early environmental movement, she also produced three volumes […]

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Uhall

Infrastructure For A Life In Common

May 6, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

The transformation required to take place, to approach something we might call “revolution,” is as much spiritual and ethical as it is political and economic, and we need to be able to balance these different registers simultaneously, to not allow ourselves to get stuck, stale, and withdrawn.

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Woodbine

Precarious Possibilities of Life in Capitalist Ruins

May 6, 2021by dmf 5 Comments

“Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt-Tsing examines our precarious present – where environmental degradation and economic alienation threaten to dismantle ways of life (and actual life itself) – and explains why collaborative survival in the future requires a radical re-imagining of growth, modernity and progress.

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Tsing

Re-Evaluating Solar Photovoltaic Power

May 3, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

Re-Evaluating Solar Photovoltaic Power: Considering the ecological impacts we aim to reduce by Katie Singer Even when reality is harsh, I prefer it. I’d rather engineers say that my water could […]

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Geokinetics and the Metastable Eaarth

April 23, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

“Geokinetics has three aspects: the flow of matter, the fold of elements, and the circulation of planetary fields.”

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Nail

Reading Group: ‘A World of Many Worlds’ (2018)

April 22, 2021by ||| 4 Comments

A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science’s philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds.

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Stengers, Strathern, Viveiros de Castro

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