Abjection & Bodies Adrift with Arthur Kroker
Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Theory and professor of political science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author or editor of […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Tokologo African Anarchist Collective Newsletter
News from the front-lines via S_Z consulting commenter, human-rights activist and law professor Linda Stewart: Tokologo African Anarchist Collective Newsletter More: Here * We welcome any and all input/feedback from […]
The Spaces of Practices and Large Social Phenomena
Theodore Schatzki is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, whose research and teaching deal with social ontology, theory of action, social theory, the philosophy of the social […]
Pathways Through Chaos
In the video below Brian Holmes talks about the post-war culture of machine society, autopoiesis, Marx, globalization, art, geopolitics, cultural critique, cybernetics, activism. Here Holmes is attempting to build towards […]
Psycho-Climate Communique #1
Beak Street, London, England: 11th June 2013 and two camps cut the capital in two. The heavy black figures,clad in stab-proof vests, weighed down by shining tools of their trade, […]
The possibility of hope: a short film about no future
The Possibility of Hope is a short 2007 documentary that accompanied the home release of the brilliant film Children of Men (a film that only becomes more pertinent) focussing on […]
from Ad Hominem…
FROM AD HOMINEM By Nicky Beer The Octopus: It must be a dull world, indeed, where everything appears to be a version or extrapolation of you. The birds are you. […]
Heidegger and the Ecology of Knowing
Levi Bryant has a interesting post up on Heidegger (here), wherein he moves from a damn fine summary of ‘equipmentality’ to a discussion of cognitive blindness (although without reference to […]
Public Feelings
Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant Just as feminism has sought to identify the ways in which the personal and the political are linked, the study of “public feelings” draws […]
Science &Technology (poem)
Science & Technology That unknown bodiless entities employ Our brains at night as virtual reality theaters Seems, if not beyond question, utter Rubbish of the sort we’d say is amply […]
Craftsmanship: Connecting the Physical and the Social
Professor Richard Sennett gave the following talk for Keble College on June 7, 2013: AUDIO: Craftsmanship: Connecting the Physical and the Social Richard Sennett (b.1943) is the Centennial Professor of […]
Richard Sennett – The Stupefying Smart City
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtrxAN2RnY Sennett brings his earlier work on “brutal simplifiers” into his recent work on open cities and architectures of co-operations in this short but pithy call…
Crash (1996)
“Civilized life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions […]
Ontological Commitments
The new issue of Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism is out and it looks fantastic. The question this issue seems to be asking is ‘what is speculative realism, if it is […]
Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies
Originally posted on Continental Drift:
or, the Pathic Core at the Heart of Cybernetics [This text was developed through a large number of improvised presentations. Thanks to all who listened…
Anthony Stavrianakis on Collaboration and Ontology
The following is a conversation between Gaymon Bennett and anthropologist Anthony Stavrianakis about the Challenge of Collaboration. The conversation took place in a noisy kitchen at Berkeley University Campus. Since […]
Wolfgang Schirmacher – Art(ificial) Perception: Nietzsche and Culture after Nihilism
Perceiving as the activity of this culture after nihilism is artificial and perceives in works only what we — the artificial beings by nature — value. Nietzsche asks himself the […]
Trevor Pinch – Cooking up Science: Tacit Knowledge, Science Experiments and Food Recipes
Trevor Pinch is a professor of sociology and STS at Cornell U. His main research centers on three areas (1) the sociology of technology and how users engage with technology, […]
Interview with Paul Rabinow
“I have said in some of the earlier books that anthropology to me is anthropos + logos or logoi, so if you are interested in anthropos which in Greek is […]
Lost arts of finding our way
while I’m always leery of Romantic notions of going native, going back to the Garden, there is much to be re-membered in the worlds of crafting: AUDIO: Lost arts of finding […]
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