Monthly Archives: September 2014
Anselm Kiefer: scholar of van Gogh, reader of Heidegger
Originally posted on Lesley Chamberlain:
The themes of myth and German history have been prominent in all of Anselm Kiefer’s lonely, beautiful and dehumanized work. Kiefer, now the subject of…
A Future That Doesn’t Work? Natalie Bennett & Nick Srnicek
“Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for […]
Lost Worlds
A (non)credo for post-nihilist praxis from WOODBINE (excerpts): Every vision of the future is one of catastrophe, of climate apocalypse or zombie hordes, of the digitalization of all life or […]
Staring Into the Abyss
//www.onthemedia.org/widgets/ondemand_player/#file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.onthemedia.org%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F401540%2F;containerClass=onthemedia Radiolab HOST Brooke Gladstone follows up on her conversation with Jad Abumrad and Eugene Thacker to explore our longstanding fascination with nihilism: why it’s popular today, and whether that’s always been the case.. http://www.onthemedia.org/story/staring-abyss/
Slurb by Marina Zurkow
Practices for the Twilight of Human Time?
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“it is good to accept how fucked you are”: questions on a dark coexistentialism
A lucid view of the darkest situation is already, in itself, an act of optimism. Indeed, it implies that this situation is thinkable-, that is to say, we have not […]
Small small small world remix
Mobilizing for Justice in the Anthropocene: Autogestion, Radical Politics, and the Owl of Minerva (2/2)
Originally posted on Notes toward an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism:
[This is part II of an interview on Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab (AK Press, 2014). Read…
free copy of “Johnston’s Materialist Critique of Meillassoux”
Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
The PDF is available for download HERE. The article appears in the 2013 issue of Umbr(a), and is based on my presentation at the University…
Beyond Palliative Care
Not all that long ago the curators of this blog started talking about the possibility of the palliative care of the Earth. Recently Dirk posted up a podcast dealing with […]
The chaos of commitments
Commitment means the affirmation of a message…(Arnold Hauser. 2012. The sociology of art. Mulling over one of Levi Bryant’s recent post. Trying to think it through a bit more. Every claim and […]
Riots in the Ghetto Suburbs
http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2014.09.17_ferguson_riots.mp3 “Riots can be frightening, violent, chaotic, and indiscriminate. They are also, undoubtedly, moments of collective social power, often of the marginalized. As the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri illustrates, riots […]
Dark Ecologies: Emerson & Neuroscience
The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages, — leaf after leaf, — never returning one. … The element running through entire nature, which […]
Pop Nihilism and The Dust Of This Planet
From RADIO LAB: A conversation with Eugene Thacker on the truth, beauty and post-goodness of pessimism (nihilism?) Eugene Thacker is an author and associate professor at The New School in […]
Bodily Natures – An Interview with Stacy Alaimo
From New Books in Critical Theory: In her book, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010), Stacy Alaimo approaches the concepts of “science, environment, and self” in an […]
Machinism
Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
In Onto-Cartography I propose a machine-oriented ontology. “Machine” is a synonym for “entity”, “thing”, “object”, or “being”. Machine-oriented ontology– or more simply, “machinism” –is the…
Anarchism & Occupy Wall Street w/ Bray & Schneider
“A presentation by authors Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street and Nathan Schneider Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.”
Transformation without Apocalypse (?) Rob Nixon
Rob’s talk starts around 6:55 if like me you can do without the pipedreamer intro See also: Slow Violence and The Environmentalism of the Poor Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live […]
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