Global Weirding & Deep Adaptation
Below is the revised and expanded text version a talk given during Wyrd/Patchwork #2, at Punctum in Prague on 26 October 2018. The session was organized by the folks at […]
Category Archives: Crawford
Struggle Without Fear
Struggle Without Fear by Patrick Jennings 1. This text came about as a comment on Arran’s post “The Ko’an of Extinction”. It is not a critique as much as a […]
The Ko’an of Extinction
Xenogothic has written a reply to my last post that demands a response. The need to reply comes from the fact that it hits on philosophical touchstones that I had […]
Deeply Adaptive Patchworking vs. Fully Automated Fantasy
Interest in patchwork is moving out beyond its capture in the Landian gravity-well and as it does attention is moving from the system to the object level. The people I’m […]
hyperstition is the cure for depression
I have delayed writing anything up on Inventing the Future. This hasn’t stopped me writing a bunch of short responses. These have mostly launched on Facebook but I thought I’d stick […]
sociotechnical survivalism
The Black Panther’s have many lessons for the contemporary left. Here I’m interested in pointing at the medical activism of the Party as an example of what Srnicek and Williams […]
the possibility of a left stoicism?
Salvage has a new article up that is being spread over FB. The article is by Alberto Toscano and focusses on the more or less forgotten Italian Marxist Franco Fortini. To continue […]
visions and voices [i]
Is this my 4th or 5th post today? I don’t know. I have been on nightshift and should by now really be asleep. Still, inspired by Craig Hickman’s posting of poetry and […]
Unknowing in the Wild
Survival, in the sense Desert suggests it to me, is something completely different, for in it any social group or kin network, as it attempts to live on, cannot draw significant […]
“it is good to accept how fucked you are”: questions on a dark coexistentialism
A lucid view of the darkest situation is already, in itself, an act of optimism. Indeed, it implies that this situation is thinkable-, that is to say, we have not […]
Beyond Palliative Care
Not all that long ago the curators of this blog started talking about the possibility of the palliative care of the Earth. Recently Dirk posted up a podcast dealing with […]
Hypothesis: subjectivity is kinesthetic
Provisional Theses on the hypothesis 1. So many philosophical arguments regarding subjectivity are grounded in theories of the body as either a depth or a surface. Commonly thought of as […]
The black bloc, the spectacle and the therapy of violence
A mass of black clad bodies move through a thick haze, smoke or tear-gas coagulating the air. Incendiary flashes in the dark; sparks illuminating nothing of the masked faces. […]
The Catastrophic and the Post-apocalyptic
The present is filled with catastrophe and apocalypticism. A certain phrase has been deployed and redeployed in summarising the condition we find ourselves in: it is easier to imagine the end […]
‘Happiness is statistically abnormal’: happiness after nihilism
Happiness is a kind of madness Look around you. Examine the world you live in. Give it a cursory glance. How could you not conclude that happiness is a delusional […]
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