Detroit: Disaster-Futurology
You can think of the current social order as something akin to this artificial light: another kind of power that fails in disaster. In its place appears a reversion to […]
Author Archives: Arran Crawford
Counterpunch repost: “U.S. Wars and the Climate Crisis” by Rob Urie
Originally posted on Notes toward an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism:
“Capitalist ‘reformers’ and global warming skeptics both depend on limiting the scope of available evidence to eternally debatable climate ‘science.’ What…
Cranky Jobcentre Psych Tests Are Unethical, But Will Anyone Except Claimants Care?
Originally posted on the void:
The news that unmployed people will face psychological testing in order to determine how much Jocentre harassment they should receive has prompted warnings from psychologists…
“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 […]
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…
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 […]
Reza Negarestani Live: “if catastrophe is a cognitive opportunity”
What Does It Mean to Think a Catastrophe @ Goethe-Institut Los Angele This is the abstract of my forthcoming talk at A Culture Beyond Crisis workshop, organized by Goethe-Institut Los […]
The utter insufficiency of anti-suicide activism
Stacy Alaimo – Your shell on acid: post-human vulnerability, anthropocene dissolves
Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Interesting talk from Stacy Alaimo (UT Arlington):
Anti-depressive Politics
A new Prometheus need not take the form of the ‘Modern Prince’, the party, if the latter is regarded as a commanding height and centre supervenient on any other council, […]
no boredom
In Mark Fisher’s talk he repeated the recent intervention made by the Institute for Precarious Consciousness where it states that we have moved from a world of boredom to one […]
Accelerationism, Desire and Madness
Last night at the Glasgow School of Art Mark Fisher took the stage to discuss accelerationism. I have to say that up until last night I had given only a passing interest […]
Accelerationism: The New Prometheans – Part One
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
“Let us not forget that philosophy is also primate psychology; that our loftiest speculations are merely picking through a…
Sleaford Mods- Two songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1mwk73yTz4 Officially Britain’s only exciting band.
notes on molecularisation of control
The psychotropic body is a body modeled “from the inside,” no longer passing through the per-spectival space of representation, of the mirror, and of discourse. A silent, mental, already molecular […]
Stimulations
The following first appeared as two separate posts on my libcom blog. Fragments also appeared on attemptatliving. Society of Stimulation In scanning through an article, “Spent? Capitalism’s growing problem with […]
The new junk isn’t just what’s inside the body
Let us dare, then, to make the following hypothesis: the raw materials of today’s production process are excitation, erection, ejaculation, and pleasure and feelings of self-satisfaction, omnipotent control, and total […]
Idealism & exodus in the thought of Max Stirner
Originally posted to attemptsatliving as I drafted it there & didn’t particularly want to reformat it for here. This is an attempt to critique Stirner in the light of his […]
Policing the real?
There seems to have been an explosion around the question of a realist pluralism, it’s possibility and desirability, with a variety of the post-SR crowd weighing in. The debate seems […]
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