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Jessie Beier—There’s No I In Me (or, “I Don’t Necessarily Agree with Everything I Say”)

December 28, 2016by ||| 1 Comment

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After Kant (1)

December 28, 2016by ||| 2 Comments

This. The latent thetic power of everybody for coping and engaging with-in reality. I agree with the utility of giving up the idea that philosophy is a privileged kind of […]

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The Topology of Dark Networks

February 6, 2016by ||| 1 Comment

By Jennifer Xu and Hsinchun Chen SCIENTISTS FROM A variety of disciplines, including physics, sociology, biology, and computing, all explore the topological properties of complex systems that can be characterized as […]

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S.C Hickman on the Engine of Inhumanism

January 19, 2016by ||| Leave a comment

Hickman’s prose and insights often match the quality of his astute micro-analyses. Enjoy: “Nature no longer exists. We’re all artificial now. The engine of inhumanism is eating reality alive so that […]

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The Question of Naturalistic Ethics: Sam Harris on Science and Morality

November 15, 2015by ||| 6 Comments

Below Sam Harris outlines and then discusses with Richard Dawkins his argument against Hume’s erroneous (IMO) notion that we cannot derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’ – what philosopher’s call the “naturalistic […]

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cannibal metaphysics

August 28, 2015by ||| 3 Comments

Cannibal Metaphysics By Eduardo Viveiros de Castro I once had the intention of writing a book that would have been something of a homage to Deleuze and Guattari from the […]

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Alf Hornborg – The Political Economy of Technofetishism

August 28, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

The political economy of technofetishism: Agency, Amazonian ontologies, and global magic This work is licensed under the Creative Commons | © Alf Hornborg Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Vol 5, No […]

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The Visionary Thought of Marshall McLuhan, Introduced & Demystified by Tom Wolfe

August 28, 2015by ||| Leave a comment

Source: The Visionary Thought of Marshall McLuhan, Introduced & Demystified by Tom Wolfe

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Guattari’s Eco-Logic

May 29, 2015by ||| 3 Comments

WILD ECOLOGIES – Featured post #2: Here Bill Rose summarizes and interprets Guattari’s ‘ecosophy’ as it is laid out in the book and elsewhere, on the way to a quasi-anarchic […]

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Bewilded

May 21, 2015by ||| 25 Comments

WILD ECOLOGIES – Featured post #1: Here Steve Duplantier offers some personal perspective on biodiversity, Proudhon and the bewildering complexity within that defies any anthropocentric appeal to a distinction between […]

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Wild Ecologies: Speculative Anarchism & Guattari’s ‘The Three Ecologies’

May 20, 2015by ||| 11 Comments

Wild Ecologies: Speculative Anarchism & Guattari’s Three Ecologies READING GROUP In the first of what we hope to be a series of group readings, Wild Ecologies encourages participants to read Felix […]

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Culture like Relativity?

May 19, 2015by ||| 13 Comments

‘Culture like Relativity‘ by Daniel Lende FROM NEUROANTHROPOLOGY: One of the prominent ways to think about culture is as a system of symbols or beliefs. For example, Clifford Geertz wrote in […]

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on clear and present morality

May 14, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

In “Their Morals and Ours”, Leon Trotsky laid out some sobering reflections on justification and sentiment: A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its […]

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Lefebvre’s “Great Pleonasm”

February 19, 2015by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYOr8TlnqsY A warning from a time prior to hyper-connectivity… At the extreme, signs and significations which are nothing more than significations lose all meaning. At…

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Ray Brassier on Real Subsumption

February 5, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

Subsumption is the process by which the social relations of production penetrate the labour process itself. Marx distinguishes between the “formal” and “real” subsumption of the labour process by capital. […]

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the ecological a priori?

January 22, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

[][[ CROSS-POSTED from Archive Fire ]][] Adam Robbert bringing the Foucault and Deleuze eco-style:  For Foucault, then, the nonhuman impresses itself onto anthropic space through the production of laws and […]

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Katerina Kolozova on The Real in Contemporary Philosophy

January 22, 2015by ||| 8 Comments

The Real in Contemporary Philosophy Katerina Kolozova What Baudrillard called the perfect crime has become the malaise of the global(ized) intellectual of the beginning of the 21’st century. The “perfect […]

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Bruno Latour | Ecologizing the Future

January 8, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

Notes towards an emancipatory ecologistics? * What would be required of us cognitively, technically, and practically in our attempts to alter our ways of existing for more adaptive modes? Bruno Latour, […]

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On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene

January 7, 2015by ||| 11 Comments

On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene Adrian Ivakhiv Ontology is in; epistemology is out. The question is no longer how we know what we know, but […]

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Proposals for a SZ study group?

November 25, 2014by ||| 44 Comments

Last week Arran James proposed a reading group involving people interested in anarchism and speculative theory. I like the idea of asking activists and other politically inclined para-academics to spend […]

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