Abdou Maliq Simone on Feral Urbanism
“The feral city is a city given over to the instigation of incomputable eventualities, even as regimes of calculation have taken over the production of urban space.” — Abdou Maliq […]
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deep adaptation as post-nihilist praxis?
There is a long line of thinking and writing that frames ideological negation as emancipatory, or as an advancement of cognitive ability towards a more fluid interpretation of experience that, […]
The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
“History is not a race with a finish line — and if we make it one, it’s a game we will lose. Instead, history ought to be seen as a […]
The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, offers a groundbreaking look ahead at what may happen after the war in Afghanistan […]
On the Roof: Cloud City
by Bruno Latour The word “network” has become a ubiquitous designation for technical infrastructures, social relations, geopolitics, mafias, and, of course, our new life online. But networks, in the way […]
materialism, posthumanism and the climate policy assemblage
Re-assembling climate change policy: materialism, posthumanism and the policy assemblage Nick J Fox & Pam Alldred Abstract: National and international policy-makers have addressed threats to environmental sustainability from climate change […]
PINTHW: Philosophy-in-the-wild
[[ from BOGNA KONIOR & YVETTE GRANATA ]] Philosophy-in-the-wild is an ongoing, collaborative, multimedia and multi-platform non-philosophy project, devoted to re-wilding philosophy beyond its institutional (decisionist, androcentric etc) limitations. Conceptually, […]
Modeling Wicked Problems
Most Anthropocene concerns are “wicked problems,” complex problems that defy a single answer and may never be solved definitively. They involve highly complicated systems that are impossible to fully know, […]
Strength and Conditioning Guide for Insurgents
From the rad beauties at INHABIT: From Chile to Beirut, from Paris to New York, we experience the insane demands placed on us by this world in the most intimate […]
Climate Activism and The Davos Disease
As the economic “elites” gather to collude to maintain the extinction stack by undermining democracy and consolidating infrastructural power, many of us are preparing for a much different reckoning. The […]
The Importance of Municipal Socialism to Reclaim Cities
DAVID HARVEY / THE IMPORTANCE OF MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM TO RECLAIM CITIES Keynote Speech at The Future is Public: Democratic Ownership of the Economy Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, December 4, 2019: David […]
David Harvey on Infrastructure, Smart Cities, and Sharing Economics
On November 14, 2016 — as part of the Barcelona Initiative for Technological Sovereignty (BITS) — David Harvey sat down with Evgeny Morozov to discuss Trump’s election and what it means for neoliberalism and infrastructure; as […]
doing without knowledge
That ‘knowledge is power’ is rarely disputed by anyone. Literacy has established linguistic semiotics as a dominant coping-capacity and mediator of perception that allows us to plan, control and manipulate […]
follow the infrastructure
In this first post in a new series seeking to interrogate the political ecology infrastructures we feature Deborah Cowen’s ‘Following the infrastructures of empire’ (2019). In her paper, Cowen asks […]
Framing the End of the Species
The Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Volume One (2014) by Claire Colebrook From the Introduction: There are three senses of extinction: the now widely discussed sixth great extinction […]
unnerving realities of the Wet’suwet’en
There are times I find it difficult to express publicly in certain spheres of attention the work I do within social movements as an organizer. Often, in predominantly Caucasian and […]
Societies Evolve
This introductory note from Philosophical Transactions brought together papers presented at a Discussion Meeting in January 2009 where 15 scientists were invited to review important issues relevant to our understanding […]
Organizing for Promethean Socialism?
In her post “Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods“, Amelia Davenport argued for leftist organizers to reclaim the ideas of Taylor’s Scientific Management, making a broader argument for […]
Capital Is Dead
In her new book, “Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?” (2019), McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a […]
The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Quinn Slobodian’s book Globalists, sparked quite a controversy upon its English publication in early 2018. The Canadian historian casts new light on the history of free trade and neoliberal globalization, […]
