http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2014/11/paying-attention-in-age-of-distraction.html “Citton’s ecology of attention is constructed around a broader set of concerns regarding activity and passivity in attention. As Citton argues the question is how to make attention not […]

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http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/11/postpolitical-infrastructures/#.VGyUSfnF-So “Can the planet be hacked? That might be the question for these times. Can the infrastructure being built out, one which precludes by design old-fashioned ‘politics’, yield to new […]

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http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2014.11.17_health_radicals.mp3 “According to Theodore Brown, proletarian internationalism converged with social medicine in the early twentieth century; what emerged, he asserts, was a “health internationalism” rooted in the belief that factors […]

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
this sort of sermon could lead to endless debates over whether things/relations are really blobs or lines, I’m more interested in what using such figures of speech allows us to […]

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/11/field-notes/notes-from-the-anthropocene-1 “As Lauren Berlant writes, “the present is perceived, first, affectively: the present is what makes itself present to us before it becomes anything else” (Cruel Optimism, 4). This series […]

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/11/hht_20141116.mp3 “In Australia, in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, more than sixty pieces of legislation have been passed into law, that significantly strengthen the […]

http://vimeo.com/108273539 Annemarie Mol’s take on empirical philosophy: Science studies brought the sciences down to earth. Instead of accepting the existence of ‘universals’, it explored how facts relate to local practices […]

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The revolutionary project of a classless society, of an all-embracing historical life, implies the withering away of the social…

death-metal band fronted by a parrot, what’s not to love?

See no need to worry folks the engineers are here to save the day…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth‘ lecture and the discussion following it, at Nottingham Contemporary gallery last night. The introduction is by Emma Moore,…