The lecture below responds to criticisms that Spinoza cannot account for vulnerability since he does not have a strong enough conception of negativity that could account for loss and mourning. […]
“The world is increasingly unthinkable – a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction.” – Eugene Thacker (2011) […]
For Gregory Bateson, it is a “pathology of epistemology” (1973) that causes us to overlook our connections to the broader environment, threatening the very existence of humanity and causing the […]
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 […]
“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings
The question remains one of how exactly the hallucinatory activity of cognition can best adapt to the black chaotic assemblages of contemporary forces. Excerpts from Ben Woodard’s “Mad Speculation and […]
“there are worlds to be made, forms of life made to grow apart from what reigns, including by salvaging what can be salvaged from the present state of things, and on the other, there is the imperative to attack, to simply destroy the world of capital.”
In response to recent pushback on patchwork theory Xenogothic asks the following questions: perhaps the problem here is the very thinking of patchwork as a model in the first place… […]
From Transcendental Empiricism to Worker Nomadism: William James by David Lapoujade William James calls himself a radical empiricist. His philosophy is not, as it is widely believed, pragmatism, but rather […]
Originally published on Jun 19, 2017, as video from the Assemblage Thinking Symposium 2017, at the University of the Aegean. ABSTRACT: This lecture will discuss the fundamental concepts of the theory […]
Mohammad Salemy: This text is an experiment with a speculative form which is neither as “objective” as science, nor as subjective as science-fiction. ‘Science non-fiction’ is not just a neologism. […]
As a grad student in anthropology it was made very clear to me that Carlos Castaneda was undoubtedly a fraud as an ethnographer (see here), as Hickman alludes to, but […]
Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Algorithmic governmentality, by its perfect ‘real time’ adaptation, its ‘virality’and its plasticity, makes the very notion of ‘failure’ meaningless……
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb6W_Pxosyg
Originally posted on Becoming Integral: Notes on Planetary Coexistence:
I often find myself thinking with Alfred North Whitehead. I recall that today is his birthday, Feburary 15 (1861-1947). I don’t…
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism (PDF) by Claire Colebrook Necessary reading for our purposes here: “Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism: this awful portmanteau word, in all its ungainly confusion, captures something crucial about the present. In the essay […]
[following from my previous post on the positive ontological status of zero] so as i get closer to the end of guy debord’s the society of the spectacle and see him […]
Tonight, I want to talk about zero (big props to Petra for the music). To be honest, I’ve resisted the exploration of zero for some time, despite it being part of the […]
A talk presented by Aragorn Eloff at the 2015 Deleuze and Guattari and Africa conference (www.deleuzeguattari.co.za). “Nothing more can be said, and no more has ever been said: to become worthy of […]
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