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Post-nihilist praxis and pessimism: rehashing some old ground

November 18, 2020by Arran Crawford 77 Comments

REPOST FROM 2015: In the last few months I have begun to explore philosophical pessimism, although not in writing and not on syntheticzero. It might seem strange to do so […]

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magnitudes of the end

September 6, 2019by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Sometimes you come across something and think: fuck, I wish I’d written that. Well… Our starting point is clear. This is the end of a world, and if we are […]

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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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The Ko’an of Extinction

September 29, 2018by Arran Crawford 26 Comments

Xenogothic has written a reply to my last post that demands a response. The need to reply comes from the fact that it hits on philosophical touchstones that I had […]

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Deeply Adaptive Patchworking vs. Fully Automated Fantasy

September 29, 2018by Arran Crawford 9 Comments

Interest in patchwork is moving out beyond its capture in the Landian gravity-well and as it does attention is moving from the system to the object level. The people I’m […]

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Foreclosure/Withdrawal?

July 14, 2017by Arran Crawford 3 Comments

The activist, whose phantom subject consciousness is defined by its vain wounds, collects injuries by throwing its body at a motionless objectivity, these are my chains, see how they chafe, this […]

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Unconditional Subtraction

June 18, 2017by Arran Crawford 6 Comments

Fuck acceleration. If the process accelerates it accelerates. It doesn’t need or want your complicity or your fantasies or collaboration. If you accelerate you accelerate. If you don’t you don’t. […]

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Niki de Saint Phalle: The Art of Corporeal Vulnerability

April 16, 2017by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Niki de Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, performance artist, painter, poster maker, writer, film-maker and feminist. A producer of voluptuous sculptures of female bodies that alternate between Goddess worship […]

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human remix

December 2, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

While politics and ethics get debated someone somewhere is going ahead with gene editing. Personally, re-reading Huxley’s dystopia recently- it seemed better than this dystopia. From the Washington Post:   […]

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Charnel ground

November 27, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

There is no way out

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City-state Survivalism

November 11, 2015by Arran Crawford 3 Comments

In terms of politics climate change trumps everything else. It should be our primary concern if we want to survive or live with any kind of comfort*. Therefore all design […]

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hyperstition is the cure for depression

November 9, 2015by Arran Crawford 20 Comments

I have delayed writing anything up on Inventing the Future. This hasn’t stopped me writing a bunch of short responses. These have mostly launched on Facebook but I thought I’d stick […]

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talking about the refugee

November 7, 2015by Arran Crawford 3 Comments

There is a post is doing the rounds. It’s got lots of very clever observations on refugees. It begins with Arendt and moves through other philosophers before ending with the […]

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hyperstitional trauma/traumatic hyperstitions

October 31, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

At McKamey Manor, people pay to be kidnapped, bound, masked, slapped, stomped on and held under water over an eight-hour ‘tour’. But unlike other ‘extreme haunts’ of the same variety, […]

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sociotechnical survivalism

October 28, 2015by Arran Crawford 7 Comments

The Black Panther’s have many lessons for the contemporary left. Here I’m interested in pointing at the medical activism of the Party as an example of what Srnicek and Williams […]

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an axiom on health

October 27, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

Health is constituted by normative flexibility within given parameters. A key component of such normative flexibility is the capacity to nourish whatever boosts that flexibility. But flexibility does not and […]

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survival, sickness, and materials

October 27, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

We often speak about survival here, and I am working up a response to a piece in Salvage on the figure of “the survivor”. What constantly gets missed in these […]

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a more perfect world

October 26, 2015by Arran Crawford 2 Comments

From the comments on a previous post. It had a simple expression that please me: A more perfect hell would still be hell, and there is a legitimate concern that […]

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the political theory of a pessimist

October 25, 2015by Arran Crawford 15 Comments

Thomas Ligotti has said in the past that he wishes people were more concerned with questions of justice. I’m not sure what justice means. It’s one of those abstract crumbling dreams […]

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dissociative thought disorder

October 25, 2015by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

I keep promising to stop with the short posts and focus on writing long essays and completed sequences. My way of thinking is still trapped in a kind of hyperactivity. […]

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