From the Ruins
“Emancipation is for us the meaning of nihilism.” – Gianni Vattimo What comes after nihilism? This question might seem impertinent given the actual state and trajectory of things. Everywhere traditional, […]
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The Semantic Apocalypse
Originally posted on Speculative Heresy:
Last week, I was privileged to be a respondent to a lecture entitled “The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the…
Speculative Anarchism
SyntheticZero.net as research collective..?
Technoscience and Expressionism
Originally posted on Fractal Ontology:
Alfred Muller — Plaza Juarez, Mexico City 2006 Technology and Control The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary…
Madness and the Symbolic Order?
I disagree with Žižek on the radical distinctness of human subjectivity. I think sapience is an elaborated capacity of sentience, which is itself a capacity emerging from organic dispositionality viz. […]
Human Reflexivity in Actor-Network-Theory , Philip Conway
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
Human Reflexivity in Actor-Network-Theory , Philip Conway Perhaps in theory actor-network theory neglects human reflexivity; in practice, however, ANT accounts are full of fully reflexive humans…
Dilip Gaonkar – Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude
AFTER THE FICTIONS: Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude By Dilip Gaonkar People do not riot every day, but they have rioted often enough in the past, especially since […]
Lost Worlds
A (non)credo for post-nihilist praxis from WOODBINE (excerpts): Every vision of the future is one of catastrophe, of climate apocalypse or zombie hordes, of the digitalization of all life or […]
Pop Nihilism and The Dust Of This Planet
From RADIO LAB: A conversation with Eugene Thacker on the truth, beauty and post-goodness of pessimism (nihilism?) Eugene Thacker is an author and associate professor at The New School in […]
Bodily Natures – An Interview with Stacy Alaimo
From New Books in Critical Theory: In her book, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010), Stacy Alaimo approaches the concepts of “science, environment, and self” in an […]
“The Permaculture Grid.” A Prototype. New Myth #63 by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine
Originally posted on newmythologist.com:
“The Permaculture Grid.” A Prototype. New Myth #63 by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine “American utility companies are responsible for running approximately 5,800…
Kari Norgaard – Living in Denial
Originally posted on Theory Types:
In this excellent talk, recorded in 2013, Kari Norgaard offers a wonderful and concise overview of her well known book on the sociology of climate…
Laruelle: The Philosophical Decision
Originally posted on Anarchist Without Content:
Philosophers are no better than creationists. Philosophers may hate irrationalist leaps of faith, but French theorist François Laruelle locates their own narcissistic origin story.…
Roden on the Posthuman & the Transhuman
An excellent and compact outline of some differences between posthumanism and transhumanism from David Roden here: Posthumanists may, but need not, claim that humans are becoming more intertwined with technology. They […]
Discontinuity Thesis: A ‘Birds of a Feather’ Argument Against Intentionalism
Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
A hallmark of intentional phenomena is what might be called ‘discontinuity,’ the idea that the intentional somehow stands outside the contingent natural order, that…
Nigel Clark: Geologic politics of race in the Anthropocene
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Ben Woodard on Pessimism and Pragmatism
Ben Woodard at the leading edge of the post-nihilst turn: “[P]essimism can provide a certain form of useful clarity (not unlike Justine’s comportment in von Trier’s Melancholia). We must pass through […]
Unknowing and the Anosognosia of Everyday Life
Excepts From Interviews with David Dunning and V.S. Ramachandran Many have argued that human rationality grants us special access to the depths of psychological and metaphysical realities. Current advances in […]
Robinson Jeffers: The Poet Of Inhumanism
we experience ‘the world’ as the world: glory be to the nonhuman with-in…
Vibrant Matter & the Political Economy of Life
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCaku4N0SM http://www.thomaslemkeweb.de/biografie-engl.htm
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