The Ko’an of Extinction
Xenogothic has written a reply to my last post that demands a response. The need to reply comes from the fact that it hits on philosophical touchstones that I had […]
Deeply Adaptive Patchworking vs. Fully Automated Fantasy
Interest in patchwork is moving out beyond its capture in the Landian gravity-well and as it does attention is moving from the system to the object level. The people I’m […]
Desert: desert storms
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
Desert: it’s later than we thought
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
Zack Walsh on Contemplative Praxis
I’m a big fan of The Imperfect Buddha podcast and this particular conversation hits all the right notes for me. In the course of their entirely engaging conversation – taking […]
Desert: no (global) future
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by Anonymous Author’s Note I […]
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
ARCHIPELAGO AND ATOMIC COMMUNITARIANISM by SCOTT ALEXANDER I. In the old days, you had your Culture, and that was that. Your Culture told you lots of stuff about what you […]
Catastrophe, Collapse, Apology: words missing from the IPCC report
“Over past decades those who think things are worse than what the IPCC were saying have been proved right. If that holds true now, then its time more of us […]
(re)Imagining Infrastructures
Fascinating discussion from last year, out of the British Academy, about what infrastructure is and how the concept may have subtly changed over time (for example, the material and conceptual, […]
