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Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution

September 28, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

From the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories, August 29th, 2021. Published in Ill Will: Preface For four years, the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories […]

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Leaked UN report lays bare catastrophic effects of planetary heating

June 24, 2021by ||| 5 Comments

Eighty million more to starve Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change analysis warns of collapse in food production. A leaked draft report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

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Re-Evaluating Solar Photovoltaic Power

May 3, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

Re-Evaluating Solar Photovoltaic Power: Considering the ecological impacts we aim to reduce by Katie Singer Even when reality is harsh, I prefer it. I’d rather engineers say that my water could […]

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Affect & Vulnerability: Spinoza & Deleuze on Negativity

January 29, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

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. […]

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The Way Of The Violent Stars (excerpts)

January 12, 2021by ||| 5 Comments

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 […]

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Leaning Into Uncertainty: A Life of Anticipating the Worst-Case Scenario

December 29, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

“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 […]

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seduction of a cyborg

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Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1994.

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Complicity at the Edge of Extinction

December 1, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

“Techno-optimism is much worse than techno-pessimism”

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UNCIVILISATION: THE DARK MOUNTAIN MANIFESTO

November 26, 2020by Linnewho 3 Comments

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 […]

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Pandaemic Speculations: A Multilogue

November 23, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

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 […]

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Post-nihilist praxis and pessimism: rehashing some old ground

November 18, 2020by Arran Crawford 77 Comments

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 […]

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Artificial Intelligence – Limitless Potential vs Liminal Transcendence

November 9, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

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, […]

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The Collapse of Change: A View from the Future

October 24, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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A field guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction

October 22, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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2050: Risk, Security, Collapse

October 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

“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, […]

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Explaining Possitopia

October 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Existenzial Inflections

October 7, 2020by ||| 3 Comments

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 […]

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Preparing for the end of the world as we know it

September 24, 2020by ||| 5 Comments

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. […]

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Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordances

September 24, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

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: […]

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Abdou Maliq Simone on Feral Urbanism

July 28, 2020by ||| 6 Comments

“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 […]

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