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“As we swirl about in the vertiginous technosphere, the translation of our world into a data-material complex, brings with it the promise (and threat) of the total measurability of life […]

see also https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/lee-braver-on-philip-k-dicks-ubik-as-postmodern-gnosticism/

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/05/rvn_20160529.mp3 “Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning flesh […]

I don’t share Slavoj’s optimism that we can make things substantially better but he seemed quite clear and reasonable to me in this talk, I can see making a pragmatist’s […]

Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The way I think through another’s work is to write, to question, to take notes, read parallel works that…

“Ashley Dawson, Eben Kirksey, Julie Livingstone, Anne McClintock, Rob Nixon, and Jovana Stokic will probe imaginative horizons to illuminate concrete sites of biocultural hope.” see also: http://climateandcapitalism.com/2016/05/25/planetary-crisis-we-are-not-all-in-this-together/

more info and video footage @ https://www.rt.com/news/344635-france-chaos-protests-reform/

http://media.blubrry.com/dietsoap/p/content.blubrry.com/dietsoap/standingwithz.mp3 more info @ http://douglaslain.net/zero-squared-special-a-reading-in-defense-of-zizek/ for brer noir’s take: https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/thinking-too-much-and-not-enough/

http://ia601504.us.archive.org/34/items/160526OSPODCASTDemocracy/160526-OS-PODCAST-Democracy.mp3 http://radioopensource.org/democracy-disorder/

see also http://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2016/may/27/that-thing-gnawing-away-at-all-of-us-calais-and-the-shantytown-on-its-doorstep http://novaramedia.com/2016/05/class-race-migration/

“Writer and Bitch Media co-founder Andi Zeisler explores 50 years of tension between feminism and capitalism in popular culture, and explains how mass media has adapted and amplified the language […]

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/world-on-fire-1.3576953 jewish philosophy place Fire is a critical ritual marker in Judaism. On the combustible nature of religion,  you can read here about Lag Ba’Omer forest fires in Jerusalem. There are […]

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/05/lnl_20160526_2205.mp3 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/venezuela-on-the-brink/7436372