Tarrying With The Possible?
In ‘Global Weirding & Deep Adaptation‘ I played with the suggestion that there is a wider spectrum of options for envisioning the future than what can be gleaned from two of […]
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How to Deal with Cosmoecological Perplexities
Introduction In 2020, I got hold of the slim Artscience (2021) by the Malaysian physicist turned writer and speculative designer Clarissa Lee. Subtitled A Curious Education, the unusual format brings together reflections on […]
Why Agriculture Can Never Be Sustainable
Ten thousand years of agriculture has devastated every ecosystem it has come in contact with. Horticultural societies point toward a solution, and permaculture can help us design a way to […]
The End of the Megamachine?
Fabian Scheidler in conversation w/ Professor Richard D. Wolff on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff about “The End of the #Megamachine”, tipping points in the Earth system, social movements, […]
Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance
By Craig Collins [original source] As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust. But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase. Growth-less capitalism turns catabolic. The […]
How to build a new world in the shell of the old
Every city has its graveyard of community groups. Without a strategic vision, local projects cannot possibly amount to a systemic alternative to capitalism. April 28, 2018 “Another world is not […]
SYMBIOTIC SKINS, METABOLIC SCHEMA
by Ally Bisshop When Johann von Goethe wrote his 1790 treatise on the metamorphosis of plants,[1] he invited us to read in the form of a plant the signs of […]
Joseph Tainter on ‘Collapse’
“Collapse is a broad term that can cover many kinds of processes. It means different things to different people. Some see collapse as a thing that could happen only to […]
The Impossible WE?
The Impossible WE? by Jonathan Rowson (original source: Emerge) A bigger ‘we’ is often called upon to take collective action to address our burning global emergencies. But ‘we’ is the […]
The Infinite Sales Bay of the Universe
An essay by philosopher Amy Ireland. Text source here. Originally published in the exhibition catalogue for Andre Škufca’s Black Market, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, 2020. “You’re absolutely right. […]
Being In An Environment: a performative perspective
This paper by Andrew Pickering is a revised version of a talk given at Oxford University, February 2, 2012, as part of a series of Linacre Lectures on “Environmental Governance […]
Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution
From the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories, August 29th, 2021. Published in Ill Will: Preface For four years, the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories […]
Wild Things: A Conversation with Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett
Below Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett meet in a vibratory encounter designed not to explain or judge but to dilate, to influence, and to disorder. They speak of desire and […]
Leaked UN report lays bare catastrophic effects of planetary heating
Eighty million more to starve Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change analysis warns of collapse in food production. A leaked draft report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
Infrastructure For A Life In Common
The transformation required to take place, to approach something we might call “revolution,” is as much spiritual and ethical as it is political and economic, and we need to be able to balance these different registers simultaneously, to not allow ourselves to get stuck, stale, and withdrawn.
Re-Evaluating Solar Photovoltaic Power
Re-Evaluating Solar Photovoltaic Power: Considering the ecological impacts we aim to reduce by Katie Singer Even when reality is harsh, I prefer it. I’d rather engineers say that my water could […]
Geokinetics and the Metastable Eaarth
“Geokinetics has three aspects: the flow of matter, the fold of elements, and the circulation of planetary fields.”
Reading Group: ‘A World of Many Worlds’ (2018)
A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science’s philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds.
For A Vernacular Of The Possible?
Fragments from Sven Lütticken’s new essay E-FLUX Journal #115 – February 2021: In the 1970s, the Marxist theorist Raymond Williams warned against treating “feudal culture” or “bourgeois culture” as monolithic blocs […]
Spinoza – A Philosopher for Our Time?
Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. One of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the […]
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