A Deep Adaptation Primer
This is post functions as a constantly evolving primer for most things Deep Adaptation – a framework first proposed by Dr. Jem Bendell in his July 2018 paper, “Deep Adaptation: A Map […]
Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)
(worldmap: command and control) Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist […]
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 […]
Melancholy of Resistance (pdf)
“Catastrophe! Of course! Last judgement! Horseshit! It’s you that are the catastrophe, you’re the bloody last judgement, your feet don’t even touch the ground, you bunch of sleepwalkers.” ― László […]
Thinking Ecographically
I’m currently reading through a jungle of papers as preparatory work for a possible PhD run (fucking crazy, right?) in my home disciple of anthropology. My focus would be on […]
‘for its apotheosis will be the final catastrophe’
embrace negation || unleash creation “ Protest only serves as the prenatal expression of an attitude that must still give birth to direct action. In order to create new possibilities, […]
The Only Land There Is
From the uber-normie publication The Atlantic: This Land Is the Only Land There Is Seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning. ROBINSON MEYER AUGUST 8, 2019 Climate change […]
Into a Silent Universe
“The world is increasingly unthinkable – a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction.” – Eugene Thacker (2011) […]
From Extinction: nine strategies for a left-hand exit
“We must not be afraid of collapse. Another end is possible.” — Kanad Chakrabarti The following essay was first published on Noir Materialism. Uhall has important things to say about exit […]
The Becoming World and the Age of Ruin
1 It seems clear that a systems approach, most prominent in the earth sciences, has triumphed at a more general level as the new way of envisioning the world. It […]
