Lefty academics and pundits are still talking as if the economy is going to get better instead of worse, they should be trying to figure out alternative economies for the […]

Click to access stengers_capitalistsorcery.pdf lots of other good stuff @ http://goldfarbsummerinstitute2014.wordpress.com/author/couroux/

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, […]

Capitalist Disembodiment of Labor and Life: New Expropriations of Brains from Bodies Richard Gilman-Opalsky (University of Illinois, Springfield) “The New Realism: Seeking Alternatives to Postmodern Pessimism” Todd Hoffman (Georgia Regents […]

http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2014.08.27_parenti_on_climate_and_state.mp3 “Does the radical left need to stop worrying and learn to love the state? Marxist writer Christian Parenti argues that, if global warming is to be halted, it will […]

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Originally posted on Fixing the Economists:
I recently read a paper by the anthropologist David Graeber entitled ‘The Sword, The Sponge, and the Paradox of Performativity: Some Observations on Fate,…

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Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
I owe an article in the next couple of weeks on the new materialisms and darned if RJ doesn’t hit on…

I could do without the metaphysical mumbojumbo in the 1st half but the ontic/anthropological issues of the affordances/resistances of “backgrounds” and the pragmatic emphasis on our manipulations(including but not limited […]

” I propose that even as capitalism shifts course, changes its emphasis and re-organizes exploitation and currency, feminism and other forms of critical thinking also mutate, shift and change course; […]

interesting flashback from 95′ with Liana Borghi, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Francesca da Rimini, Josephine Starrs, Sadie Plant VirtualFutures.co.uk “The virtual revolution is also a sexual revolution. All New Gen […]

Originally posted on Intra-Being:
I went to a screening of ‘3 broken cameras’ put on at Delhi University by a group of politically engaged students. The film was intense, disturbing…

“We can never fully exhaust the ordinary – how could we? For as sure as we try to get close, the ordinary becomes something else. Elusive – in the same […]