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Designing the Apocalypse: On the Limits of Cartography

February 25, 2014by ||| 1 Comment

Originally posted on Unlimited Dream Company ('Despairing at last, I decided to die' -J.G. Ballard):
I was thinking of forwarding a comment to Adam Robbert’s post at knowledge-ecology.com (Earth’s Aesthetics: Knowledge…

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Lovelock On The Coming Catastrophe

February 19, 2014by ||| 5 Comments

Update: please note that The Guardian piece linked below is from 2008 Was James Lovelock the first credible scientist to go public with his acceptance of the coming catastrophes of […]

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Chaos /// Concept /// Continuity – Deleuze and Survivability

February 13, 2014by ||| 1 Comment

This is a brilliant post by Ian Alan Paul – a transdisciplinary artist/theorist working on feminist and new-materialist reframings of political philosophy. His projects and writing engage with materialist, queer […]

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How does Schizoanalysis Work? or, “how do you make a class operate like a work of art”

February 13, 2014by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
“Trees at twilight,” by Jerome Lawrence, a former paranoid schizophrenic “So what is schizo-analysis?” When Lacan finally poses the question, as recounted in The Anti-Oedipus…

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the in-itself, together

February 12, 2014by ||| 11 Comments

To exercise one’s capacities to their fullest extent is to take pleasure in one’s own existence, and with sociable creatures, such pleasures are proportionally magnified when performed in company… It […]

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Ontology as Embodied Cognitive Action?

February 7, 2014by ||| 6 Comments

In the comment section of a previous post I made the following claim: I’m a little worried about making a strong distinction between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’. Knowing and communicating are also […]

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Rosenthal on Ontology, Pluralism and Pragmatism

February 4, 2014by ||| 4 Comments

Rosenthal, Sandra B. (2005) ‘The Ontological Grounding of Diversity: A Pragmatic Overview’ in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: The uprootedness of experience from its ontological embeddedness in a natural world […]

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Being, Background, Pluripolitics

January 28, 2014by ||| 29 Comments

 “We start from the One, rather than arriving at it. We start from the One, which is to say that if we go anywhere, it will be toward the World, […]

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Philosophical Truth

January 21, 2014by ||| 1 Comment

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegant accomplishment, by acquiring which they will complete…

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Richard Smith calling for Social Revolution against Climate Catastrophe

January 21, 2014by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on Notes toward an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism:
This is a video recording of an interview with economic historian Richard Smith, author of a couple of recent radical articles…

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Tim Ingold – Towards an Ecology of Materials

January 13, 2014by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
Tim Ingold – Towards an Ecology of Materials About the lecture: Both material culture studies and ecological anthropology are concerned with the material conditions of social…

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Melissa Leach: science-governance challenges in the Anthropocene

January 13, 2014by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Jeremy J Schmidt View original post

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Making the Machines of Tomorrow – Nick Land

January 13, 2014by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8byZUj0vmwE panel Q&A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdor4DNCKUo

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Technogenesis: The Emergence of Machinic Sapiens or Homo Cyborgensis?

January 10, 2014by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Nature … is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it…

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“The Stupendous Past”: Rose Macaulay’s Pleasure of Ruins

January 3, 2014by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on Waste Effects:
A version of this text was presented at The Writing of Rose Macaulay, in Her Historical and Cultural Context, held at the Institute of English…

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Carolyn Pedwell on Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy

November 19, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Short video of Carolyn Pedwell talking about her forthcoming book Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Palgrave 2014).

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Hickman on the intrepid hunger of the free

November 8, 2013by ||| 1 Comment

“That we continue is because of our stubbornness, our inability to let the elements keep us down, to strive after the only thing we find worth attaining: the prize of […]

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Nature Poetics and Ecological Praxis

September 20, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

With regards to my last post Jeremy at Struggles Forever has provided an important reminder: [T]he conception of Nature as a container, in my opinion, conveys the wrong message. Containers delimit and […]

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Derrida, Laruelle, Rorty, Wittgenstein

Ethics and Politics in the Anthropocene?

September 18, 2013by ||| 11 Comments

Much has been made lately of the claim that we have entered a new geologic epoch provocatively termed the ‘Anthropocene’. The gist of the claim is that humans have intervened […]

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Gilbert Simondon – ‘The Technical Object as Such’

July 15, 2013by ||| 1 Comment

Originally posted on Politics and Matter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eXDtG74hCL4 The philosopher Gilbert Simondon on ‘The Technical Object as Such’ taken from a longer documentary entitled ‘Entretien sur la mécanologie’ (1970)

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