A Foray into the Ecology of Possible Worlds
By Alfredo Lozano 1. An Ecology of Possible Worlds I am often amazed to have access to satellite images with thundering evidence of our species’ capabilities to transform the environment. […]
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How Am I Called Upon by the Planet?
By Lukáš Likavčan | ŠUM #23 Read from a distant planet, the majuscule script [Majuskel-Schrift] of our earthly existence would perhaps seduce the reader to the conclusion that the earth […]
A Speculative Abstract Sublime
The following text is an excerpt from a longer text which attempts to provide a theoretical map of the objects and processes that emerge from the hybridisation of philosophy and […]
Jlin – Carbon 7 (161)
A dancer moves through a dark warehouse. Directed by Joji Koyama | Composed by JlinChoreographed and performed by Corey Scott-Gilbert
From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds
“From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds“ C. S. Holling (2004) ABSTRACT: Panarchy focuses on ecological and social systems that change abruptly. Panarchy is the process by which they grow, adapt, […]
Planetary Realism
An opening plenary by Nathan Gardels November 2024 1. The Condition of Planetarity The condition of planetarity is grounded in an awareness that we humans are not the center of […]
Philosophy of The Encounter
“Being itself is a ‘practice of the outside’, a practice of turning in or toward the swerve, losing itself in the changing of worlds, from form to form. Taken to […]
The Vanguard Party of the Proletariat (1924) – Georg Lukacs
We have seen that the proletariat’s historical task is both to emancipate itself from all ideological association with other classes and to establish its own class-consciousness on the basis of […]
Patchwork as Real World Vectors
Living in the Time of Dying
Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate crisis and ecological catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning […]
X-Life in The Back Loop
“Announcing the apocalypse is easy. But doing something constructive with planetary catastrophe is rare and precious.” — Nigel Clark I think it’s safe to assume that most people have a […]
How Nuclear Fallout Maps Helped Create Planetary Ecological Thinking
In 1956, three U.S. Weather Bureau researchers published two maps (below) in the influential journal Science that would become icons in the history of both the Earth Sciences and the modern environmental […]
Cultural Niche Construction as a Framework for Reorienting Human−Environment Relations
AbstractIn this paper, we argue that the theory of cultural niche construction provides a cogent and fruitful framework for studying and managing human−environment relationships, including our conceptualizations of them. We […]
How To Understand Power
Synthetic Philosophy within the division of Labor
by ERIC SCHLIESSER on JANUARY 30, 2024 When I first published on what I call ‘synthetic philosophy’ back in 2019, I presented the two key components of the view in such a way that it […]
showing up for catastrophe
frag_10_2023 The most recent IPCC reports were supposed to put an end to the fictitious debate about the empirical reality of human-made climate change, and instead shift the focus too […]
Whence Patchwork?
There’s something still latent in the patchwork discourse that needs to be revisited. As Patrick suggested in this post, going from abstraction to intention, theory to praxis, in real contexts […]
No Exit
The apotheosis of Corporate-State Apparatus will be our final catastrophe. Capitalism is no longer merely the dominant ideological form, it is a black hole consuming the entire world.
New Vernaculars
Originally posted on Dengie Bioregion:
There was a heat dome over the north. It was in the news about the USA and Canada, but it’s also been in the Russian…
Tarrying With The Possible?
In ‘Global Weirding & Deep Adaptation‘ I played with the suggestion that there is a wider spectrum of options for envisioning the future than what can be gleaned from two of […]
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