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McKenzie Wark & Kim Stanley Robinson
People in our corner of the web keep recommending KSR to me but beyond a bit of cyberpunk I’m just not much for sci-fi, is he always this blindly optimistic […]
We Are Not From Here, Thacker on Ligotti
We Are Not From Here, Thacker on Ligotti http://www.metamute.org/editorial/occultural-studies-column/we-are-not-here “It is tempting to include others under this rubric of ecstatic pessimism: Ray Brassier, who also provides the Foreword to Conspiracy, […]
Swarm Intermezzo: Meditations on the Ether
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
1. When we perceive the movement of the swarm, what is being witnessed is a certain diagram of action derived from the organizational…
Fred Turner on The Democratic Surround
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29arNwqhHfs http://fredturner.stanford.edu/
Every Ghetto, Every City
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Really insightful video on displacement in Washington DC from Al Jazeera English. This piece traces a dynamic that is seen across the US…
Isabelle Stengers: The Invention of Modern Science (pdf)
Isabelle Stengers: The Invention of Modern Science (pdf) Click to access Stengers_Isabelle_The_Invention_of_Modern_Science.pdf
Merger, Multipersonhood, and Other-Consciousness. Peter Skafish
http://culanth.org/fieldsights/464-anthropological-metaphysics-philosophical-resistance when we interact with people with whom we are involved in some enterprise (even if we are at odds with them) it is vital to be able to understand […]
Words by Dana Gioia
The world does not need words. It articulates itself in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted. The fluent […]
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRkLiIHLgfg Up The Beach 00:00 Ocean Size 03:00 Had A Dad 07:20 Ted, Just Admit It… 11:06 Standing In The Shower… Thinking 18:28 Summertime Rolls 21:32 Mountain Song 27:52 Idiots […]
Bogost on Doing Things with Video Games
Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
Proofs are back for an upcoming book review of Bogost’s work; check it out here (some corrections may be made, but the review is…
Open Standards in the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks
Open Standards in the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks via http://newbooksintechnology.com: We tend to take for granted that much of the innovation in the technology that we use today, […]
The Duality of Non-duality, Julian Baggini
The No-Growth Imperative -Gabor Zovanyi
The No-Growth Imperative -Gabor Zovanyi link to audio of lecture http://www.townhallseattle.org/gabor-zovanyi-the-no-growth-imperative/ http://www.ewu.edu/cbpa/programs/urban-regional-planning/urp-faculty/gabor-zovanyi
Governing Emergencies network – new blog and project website
An Atypical Suicide: Psychiatric Research Abuse, Carl Elliott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCy–VImky4 Tweets by FearLoathingBTX
Is the World More Depressed? T.M. Lurhmann
Is the World More Depressed? T.M. Lurhmann “Of course rising mental illness can’t be directly attributed to Facebook, or to what Sherry Turkle, an M.I.T. professor and author of “Alone […]
Explosive Metaphors and Vagueness, David Perley
Explosive Metaphors and Vagueness, David Perley “Ever not quite!”—this seems to wring the very last panting word out of rationalistic philosophy’s mouth. It is fit to be pluralism’s heraldic device. […]
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Plotting Life after Classification, Jack Halberstam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ijYfNpltzw Tweets by JHalberstam Jack makes a case for striking examples as symptoms, I still prefer talking in terms of prototypes but the logic seems the same, “symptoms” for me […]
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