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Monthly Archives: November 2019

Melancholy of Resistance (pdf)

November 27, 2019by ||| 5 Comments

“Catastrophe! Of course! Last judgement! Horseshit! It’s you that are the catastrophe, you’re the bloody last judgement, your feet don’t even touch the ground, you bunch of sleepwalkers.” ― László […]

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Thinking Ecographically?

November 22, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

I’m currently reading through a jungle of papers as preparatory work for a possible PhD run (fucking crazy, right?) in my home disciple of anthropology. My focus has been on […]

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Latour, Viveiros de Castro, Young-Leslie

‘for its apotheosis will be the final catastrophe’

November 21, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

embrace negation || unleash creation “ Protest only serves as the prenatal expression of an attitude that must still give birth to direct action. In order to create new possibilities, […]

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The Only Land There Is

November 21, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From the uber-normie publication The Atlantic: This Land Is the Only Land There Is Seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning. ROBINSON MEYER AUGUST 8, 2019 Climate change […]

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Into a Silent Universe

November 18, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“The world is increasingly unthinkable – a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction.” – Eugene Thacker (2011) […]

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Ballard, Colebrook, Deleuze, Fisher, Marks, Thacker

From Extinction: nine strategies for a left-hand exit

November 18, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“We must not be afraid of collapse. Another end is possible.” — Kanad Chakrabarti The following essay was first published on Noir Materialism. Uhall has important things to say about exit […]

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Uhall

The Becoming World and the Age of Ruin

November 15, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

1 It seems clear that a systems approach, most prominent in the earth sciences, has triumphed at a more general level as the new way of envisioning the world. It […]

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Jennings

Critchley‏ on Active Nihilism

November 15, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“Nihilism is the obvious response to the death of God, by which we mean the collapse of any transcendent basis for morality, the collapse of the value of everything. Just […]

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Critchley

Fanged Noumena | pdf

November 14, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

The cyberpositive zero indexes a threshold of phase-transition that is immanent to the system. Download #1 – PDF  Download #2 – PDF “Drives are the functions of nomadic cybernetic systems, […]

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Land

on feral philosophy

November 13, 2019by ||| 7 Comments

Nostalgia overflows me as I write this… I’m remembering the free exchanges of half-baked ideas and irreverent attitudes that animated the theory “blogosphere” in the late 2000s—during the early days […]

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Bryant

chronotopes of truth: presence, evidence, latency

November 12, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

In this wide-ranging talk (given on April 8, 2014, as part of the Spring 2014 Shulman Lecture Series in Science and the Humanities at the Whitney Humanities Center) Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht […]

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Gumbrecht, Heidegger

Dispersed Vectors 1

November 7, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

For Gregory Bateson, it is a “pathology of epistemology” (1973) that causes us to overlook our connections to the broader environment, threatening the very existence of humanity and causing the […]

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Bateson, Dean, Deleuze, Guattari

Structuralism and Ontology: An Anthropological Journey

November 7, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Below is a lecture by Philippe Descola hosted by the Department of History and Civilization, at the European University Institute, and organised in collaboration with the Collège de France and […]

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Descola

Will We Care Enough to Matter to Them?

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Deep Adaptation is a thing. And a damn good thing. This from Professor Jem Bendell: Would you consider yourself middle class? Perhaps amongst the middle class in the West, or […]

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Bendell

Morbid Interregnum

November 6, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

In his Prison Notebooks (1930), Antonio Gramsci famously wrote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a […]

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Fokiana, Fraser, Gramsci

Brief History of An Algorithm

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

The so-called “hard-forking” of reality (now a euphemism for a human’s cyber-massaged biases and pet projects) is one of the greatest tricks played on us by Capitalism (TM), and facilitated […]

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Chun

Crisis + Habit = Update

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

INFRA-STRUCTURE is Politics. ‘New media’—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. But what do we miss […]

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Chun

there is no outside

November 1, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“All the theories of physics we have, in one way or another, apply only to subsystems of the universe. They don’t apply to the universe as a whole..”

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