Geokinetics and the Metastable Eaarth
“Geokinetics has three aspects: the flow of matter, the fold of elements, and the circulation of planetary fields.”
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To be a man!
From D.H. Lawrence:
Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking
by Peter Merriman 1 INTRODUCTION My third dislike is a certain view of space, time and place … This is the view that human beings are engaged in building discursive worlds by […]
Being Truly Wrong: Enlightened Nihilism or Unbound Naturalism?
Patrick Gamez | University of Notre Dame Abstract I present an account of nihilism, following Foucault and Nietzsche, as a sort of colonization of our thinking by a religious form […]
A Speculative Abstract Sublime
The following text is an excerpt from a longer text which attempts to provide a theoretical map of the objects and processes that emerge from the hybridisation of philosophy and […]
PROTOCOLS FOR THE PHASE TRANSITION
From THE TERRAFORMING: As new urgencies surface and new territories are defined, new alliances must be built. Inspired by the typology of starling murmuration, A.S.T. (Diann Bauer, Felice Grodin, Patricia […]
From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds
“From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds“ C. S. Holling (2004) ABSTRACT: Panarchy focuses on ecological and social systems that change abruptly. Panarchy is the process by which they grow, adapt, […]
Colonial Ends/Ends of Life (Ben Woodard)
A post from from Ben Woodard at Naught Thought (November 2022): Recently I did two overlapping talks (one in Brussels one online) on the question of the ends of life […]
Planetary Realism
An opening plenary by Nathan Gardels November 2024 1. The Condition of Planetarity The condition of planetarity is grounded in an awareness that we humans are not the center of […]
Philosophy of The Encounter
“Being itself is a ‘practice of the outside’, a practice of turning in or toward the swerve, losing itself in the changing of worlds, from form to form. Taken to […]
The Vanguard Party of the Proletariat (1924) – Georg Lukacs
We have seen that the proletariat’s historical task is both to emancipate itself from all ideological association with other classes and to establish its own class-consciousness on the basis of […]
Patchwork as Real World Vectors
Living in the Time of Dying
Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate crisis and ecological catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning […]
X-Life in The Back Loop
“Announcing the apocalypse is easy. But doing something constructive with planetary catastrophe is rare and precious.” — Nigel Clark I think it’s safe to assume that most people have a […]
How Nuclear Fallout Maps Helped Create Planetary Ecological Thinking
In 1956, three U.S. Weather Bureau researchers published two maps (below) in the influential journal Science that would become icons in the history of both the Earth Sciences and the modern environmental […]
Cultural Niche Construction as a Framework for Reorienting Human−Environment Relations
AbstractIn this paper, we argue that the theory of cultural niche construction provides a cogent and fruitful framework for studying and managing human−environment relationships, including our conceptualizations of them. We […]
Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism
Kohei Saito offers a unique and groundbreaking interpretation of Marx’s Capital as “a book about metabolism between humans and nature”. As Saito explains, Capital’s logic of infinite accumulation creates an […]
How To Understand Power
Synthetic Philosophy within the division of Labor
by ERIC SCHLIESSER on JANUARY 30, 2024 When I first published on what I call ‘synthetic philosophy’ back in 2019, I presented the two key components of the view in such a way that it […]
Planetary Sapience | Benjamin Bratton
JUNE 17, 2021 Benjamin Bratton is a professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, and the director of the terraforming program at the Strelka Institute in […]
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