Concepts adequate to the times?
From Mckenzie Wark: Now that the world most of us have known is ending, it might be time to pay more attention to the experience of those whose world has […]
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Towards a Terran Resistance Front?
E-Flux‘s latest installment has a great piece by Sven Lütticken, ‘Toward a Terrestrial‘, riffing on communist history and its possible mutations towards a terrestrial politics. Latour’s theoretic attractor “The Terrestrial” […]
the residual dilemma
To celebrate that which came after Henri Bergson ushering William James out of the delusion of rationalism: Let us leave out the soul, then, and confront what I just called […]
allergic to complicity
Andrew Culp thinks D&G would be anti-accelerationists (especially re: capitalism), and against assisting the opposition in any way. Perverts take notice: Deleuze and Guattari are less used than abused in the […]
the im/possibility of arrival
“The fantastic, then, pushes towards an area of non-signification. It does this either by attempting to articulate ‘the unnameable’, the ‘nameless things’ of horror fiction, attempting to visualize the unseen, […]
the work that Truth would do
i dig this. basically a succinct bit on post-nihilist orientation from rando Twitter human @iguesssoidk: Lets call nihilism the disbelief in mind-external meaning. The idea is that you will never […]
Hyphon_ on Accelerationism and The Plane of Total Abstraction
Below are fragments from Matt Wiedmann‘s astonishingly sober and brilliantly savage takedown of the online Accelerationist orgy of detached cynicism and obfuscation perpetrated by the privileged, misanthrope, neo-liberalized hordes of theory-kids. […]
provisionality and truth
All hedged betting has been halted. We are too damned busy with flesh tactics to type electric words into fabricated scripts. Expect mostly strategic delirium and fragments from here on […]
Nick Land on Programmatic Practicality
|| patchwork as programmatic practicality || there is much to be said of the weirding and corrosiveness liberty of deterritorializing, while an equal amount is to be done about the […]
Bendell’s Bristol Lecture on Deep Adaptation
This Jem Bendell’s lecture on Deep Adaptation, delivered in Bristol, UK, in Feb 2019. Bendell uses a more informal format, inviting the audience to explore forms of action additional to […]
Under the Sign of Erasure
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Capitalist realism is about a corrosion of social imagination, and in some ways, that remains the problem: after thirty…
Patchwork Design For Wicked Problems?
Wholesome Design For Wicked Problems by Rob Knapp Problem: One often regards difficulties or issues as problems to be solved, but one must beware the implication that the first step […]
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (1973)
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning by Horst W., J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber Policy Sciences Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jun., 1973), pp. 155-169 Abstract: The search for scientific […]
The Upside of Accepting Collapse?
The Benefits of Accepting the Possibility of Environmental Collapse and Human Extinction By John Bell British Professor of Sustainability Leadership, Jem Bendell, has recently published a thoughtful review of the […]
Black Hole Sun: On the Materialist Sublime
From Thomas Nail: The first image of black hole has just been released today. This is a profound and important aesthetic moment from a new materialist perspective. The image is […]
Requiem for the Abyss
From the mindings of S.C Hickman: Society—an inferno of saviors! —Emile Cioran No one reads the decadents much anymore, maybe it is because we have moved the world into a […]
The Secular Fanaticism of Indifference
“Maybe we need an indifferent politics, as well. A politics that no longer seeks to erase, exclude, and shame the opposition into hyperconformity. Without oppositional thinking, without contrarian thought we […]
Climate Change as Ecological Colonialism
Abstract: Climate change is a consequence of a clash between deregulated capitalism and the welfare of mankind deeply entrenched in a capitalist economic system based upon the persistent exploitation of […]
Patchwork as Real World Vectors
Patchwork as Real World Vectors by Chris Shaw [original source: The Libertarian Ideal] I define patchwork as the adaptation and fragmentation of institutional structures through the processes of exit and voice. […]
The Madhouse Effect
How climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy. This was recorded on Wednesday, March 06, 2019 at MIT: Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor […]
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