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Monthly Archives: October 2018

Giant Power: Technology, Energy, and the Beginnings of Post-Truth America

October 31, 2018by ||| 4 Comments

Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, presenting at the Mahindra Center on October 18, 2017: Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. She […]

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Oreskes

Against Non-Philosophical Humanism

October 29, 2018by ||| 5 Comments

From David Roden ~ Against Non-Philosophical Humanism My account of unbound posthumanism (See Roden 2018 and here) draws some  methodological inspiration from François Laruelle’s Non-Philosophy, though its point of departure and […]

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Roden

Fourteen Recommendations on Living Beyond Collapse-Denial

October 29, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

Dr. Jem Bendell is a Cambridge educated Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria (UK). He focuses on […]

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Bendell

Tunneling in the Chthulucene

October 28, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

Below is a video of a plenary session with Anna Tsing & Donna Haraway that took place at the eleventh biennial ASLE conference on Thursday, June 25th at the University […]

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Haraway, Tsing

Wyrdpatch Workshop II (video)

October 26, 2018by ||| 1 Comment

WYRDPATCH WORKSHOP #2 (video) via @Diffractions collective talking patchwork, deep adaptation,  darwinian intelligences, and genealogy – featuring presentations by Alice Farmer and Amy Ireland. You can […]

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Ecologics and Anthropogenic Transition

October 23, 2018by ||| 1 Comment

Originally posted on Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Anthropocene:
Kenneth McLeod, Anthropocene Transitions Program, October 2018 The first draft of this paper was prepared as a talk for Social…

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Engineering and Application of Microbial Symbioses

October 22, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

[re: Ecologistics] Below are excerpts from a fascinating paper published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology, and authored by Stephanie G Hays, William G Patrick, Marika Ziesack1, Neri Oxman and Pamela A […]

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Oxman

October WYRDPATCH WORKSHOP

October 22, 2018by ||| 1 Comment

The folks at Diffractions Collective in Prague, in collaboration with a few other groups, are hosting a second Wyrd/Patchworkshop on October 26, 2018, at 5:30pm in the U.K (9:30am Mountain […]

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Ireland, James

Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology

October 22, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

As civilized-time continues to compress via a warming world [a 12 year window according to recent U.N climate reporting] and the shape of our long collapse shifts, more and more […]

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Oxman

“Action relies on courage, not hope.”

October 21, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

From October 9, 2018 The New Republic: The Case for Climate Pessimism By EMILY ATKIN Some climate change activists oppose doom-and-gloom rhetoric. They know that, if we don’t reduce greenhouse gas […]

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Civilisation Retreats, Wildness Persists

October 20, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to resurgent theorytwitter buzz for the essay. Read the original in full: here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** […]

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anon

Accelerationism in a nutshell?

October 20, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

If you had to sum up the essence of Accelerationism in a nutshell, you could do worst than recommend somebody watch this: Sometimes, 5 minutes of audio visual composition, beats […]

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‘Capitalism and its Threats’ (2018) via Žižek

October 19, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

I’m not convinced Žižek is genuine in a lot of his critiques. Maybe he relishes in being a bit of a gadfly? I do, however, always come away from his […]

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Zizek

African Roads to Anarchy

October 18, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to resurgent theorytwitter buzz for the essay. Read the original in full: here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** […]

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anon

desert storms

October 13, 2018by ||| 4 Comments

We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]

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it’s later than we thought

October 12, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]

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Zack Walsh on Contemplative Praxis

October 11, 2018by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

I’m a big fan of The Imperfect Buddha podcast and this particular conversation hits all the right notes for me. In the course of their entirely engaging conversation – taking in […]

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Walsh

no (global) future

October 11, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by Anonymous Author’s Note I […]

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Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

October 11, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

ARCHIPELAGO AND ATOMIC COMMUNITARIANISM by SCOTT ALEXANDER I. In the old days, you had your Culture, and that was that. Your Culture told you lots of stuff about what you […]

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Alexander

Catastrophe, Collapse, Apology: words missing from the IPCC report

October 9, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

“Over past decades those who think things are worse than what the IPCC were saying have been proved right. If that holds true now, then its time more of us […]

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