I would prefer not to….

Click to access Hackers-Class-Draft2014.pdf

http://sydney.edu.au/podcasts/2014/professor_nikolas_rose_on_mental_life_in_the_metropolis.mp3 “URBAN BRAINS, URBAN LIVES AND THE EMBODIMENT OF URBANICITY: How does the experience of urban living get under the skin? How do different forms of urban life shape body […]

What’s the Matter? – Materiality and Materialism at the Age of Computation How can materiality and materialism be rethought in the rich and multifaceted context of contemporary computational architecture, and […]

Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
Let’s get Real. We’re not a ghostly repository of combinatorial contents… Or freedom leaping ab initio out of ontological contradiction… Or a totality of originary and everyday horizons of meaning… Or a normative function of converging…

No catastrophes in the making, really?

“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accomodate ourselves for a time. For you must not forget, we can also build. […]

They lie in their long hair, and the brown faces have long ago withdrawn into themselves. Eyes shut, as though before too great a distance. Skeletons, mouths, flowers. Inside the […]

A journey to the “EcoReality” post-peak-oil community, with UBC Campus Radio. Plus rap star Baba Brinkman’s new album “The Rap Guide to Wilderness”. https://soundcloud.com/radioecoshock/we-cant-all-go-back-to-land

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/09/lnl_20140917_2220.mp3 “The long and fascinating history of prediction. According to economist Tim Harford, billions of dollars are spent on experts who claim they can forecast what’s around the corner in […]

whether one talks in terms of failed states or the decentralization of states the effects of a power vacuum are not going to be pretty and we better get ourselves […]

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/downloads.wired.com/podcasts/assets/underwire/geeksguide125final.mp3

Click to access krisis-2014-2-02-Surel.pdf “A POLEMICAL TROPE IN THE ‘ONTOLOGICAL TURN’ OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Surel analyses and critically evaluates the broader implications of the treatment given to naturalism and the concept […]

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
Here is my final translation from Spanish; comments are, of course, appreciated. David Harvey, Marxist geographer and intellectual: “I’m skeptical about the idea of reforming…

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http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2014.04.21_radical_reclus.mp3 “Elisée Reclus was a social geographer and anarchist who, according to John Clark, introduced a strongly ecological dimension to anarchist thinking. Clark describes the various forms of domination that […]