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. […]
To be clear, I would never identify as an “anarcho-primitivist,” but there is much in the discourses and methods of those who do, and who have contributed greatly to ecological […]
“The catastrophes we face are growing more complex, but at the same time, we also have access to more perspectives and more resources to face that complexity.” from Earth Institute […]
Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1994.
“Techno-optimism is much worse than techno-pessimism”
UNCIVILISATION THE DARK MOUNTAIN MANIFESTO Rearmament These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass Makes pity a fool, the tearing pity For the atoms of the […]
From AGOSTO FOUNDATION: 1. In what way does the current COVID-19 epidemic restructure the relationship between domesticity and wilderness? Borbála Soós: A virus is not strictly speaking alive, however it cannot grow or […]
REPOST FROM 2015: In the last few months I have begun to explore philosophical pessimism, although not in writing and not on syntheticzero. It might seem strange to do so […]
January 2020 – Berlin The rapid development of so-called “artificial intelligence” presents both society and culture with increasing challenges on various fronts. When it comes to implementations in the arts, […]
The ship’s log of Novo Potosi is an exploration of the future looking backward to recent Latin American history. Almost like an anthropology of the future, Potosi explores a dystopian […]
The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. Its scale defies comprehension, and conceals its true nature – not as one gigantic issue, but as many. In order […]
“The true worst-case scenario might be one where we don’t venture out from our safe harbors of knowledge to explore the more treacherous shores of uncertainty.” — Dr. Gavin Schmidt, […]
In my talk GLOBAL WYRDING & DEEP ADAPTATION I played with the idea that there is a wider spectrum of adaptive options for organizing ourselves than what can be gleaned […]
From Simon O’Sullivan: “In relation to an explicit politics, this non-engagement with the affective complexities of life means accelerationism offers only a partial picture of the issues and problems at […]
From the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is a collective of researchers, artists, educators, activists and Indigenous knowledge keepers from the Global North and South. […]
Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordancesby Manuel Heras-Escribano (June 2020) Affordances, or the possibilities for acting in our environments, are pervasive in everyday life. We are constantly surrounded by them: […]
“The feral city is a city given over to the instigation of incomputable eventualities, even as regimes of calculation have taken over the production of urban space.” — Abdou Maliq […]
Throughout the Covid crisis, the use of the war metaphor, as means of persuasion and matrix of explanation, has become pervasive in politics and the popular media. Both practices have […]
“Complex challenges require intelligent solutions. We are now faced with the problem of how to , in the words of Stafford Beer, creat a “liberty machine in protoype”. Dual Power, […]
The Covid 19 crisis has weakened the United States and the European Union. For the most part, American states and European nation-states have retreated behind borders and reverted to a […]
