Monthly Archives: August 2014
Pierre Clastres’ Society Against the State (pdf)
Click to access Clastres%20-%20Society%20Against%20the%20State%20-%20Essays%20in%20Political%20Anthropology.pdf
Why should the poor live in slums if there are empty offices in the city?
asks Radical Cities author http://justinmcguirk.com/
AMELIA ROSSELLI’S GENERAL STRIKE 1969
…We had to express something better: allow ourselves this rhetoric that was a howl of protest against undaunted destruction in our frightened houses. (I lost that vertical love of solitary […]
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Escape Velocity Radio: The Zapatistas 20 Years On
Originally posted on Alex Khasnabish:
Escape Velocity Radio: The Zapatistas 20 Years On I sat down (via Skype) with the good folks at the amazing Escape Velocity Radio to talk…
Cult of Information A Neo-Luddite Treatise Theodore Roszak
the 60’son the left in the US had two interesting reactions to the modernizations going on than; a panoply of ground-level in the field experiments in living with/in and bricolaging […]
Philip Larkin’s Nothing To Be Said
For nations vague as weed, For nomads among stones, Small-statured cross-faced tribes And cobble-close families In mill-towns on dark mornings Life is slow dying. So are their separate ways Of […]
Histories of Lived Experience
Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
[Image: Edward Burtynsky] Earlier today I delivered a talk on ethology, ecology, and aesthetics as part of a panel on Cosmopolitics at the International Big History Conference…
Dread of Scarcity Fears of Abundance, Zygmunt Bauman
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Our Brains as Alien Technology By Daniel Lende
read the whole article @ http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/2014/07/19/brains-alien-technology/ “Our brains are alien technology. We don’t understand how they work, and the glimpses we have gotten so far indicate that our brains work […]
Water Flowing into Lake Eyre by John Olsen
Foucault Today, Rabinow & Rose (pdf)
Click to access Rabinow-Rose-Intro-Essential.pdf
Laruelle: The Philosophical Decision
Originally posted on Anarchist Without Content:
Philosophers are no better than creationists. Philosophers may hate irrationalist leaps of faith, but French theorist François Laruelle locates their own narcissistic origin story.…
Roden on the Posthuman & the Transhuman
An excellent and compact outline of some differences between posthumanism and transhumanism from David Roden here: Posthumanists may, but need not, claim that humans are becoming more intertwined with technology. They […]
A Brief History Neoliberalism (pdf) – David Harvey
http://www.sok.bz/web/media/video/ABriefHistoryNeoliberalism.pdf Neoliberalism – the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action – has become dominant in both thought […]
swoon / caledonia curry
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Law on fish ponds and multiplicity
Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
“A salmon is … ?” that is the ontological question. In this free paper, Jon Law addresses practice and theory, and he does it…
Process Ontology of Disaster Capitalism? Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti is a philosopher and feminist theoretician who holds Italian and Australian citizenship – born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received degrees from the Australian […]
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