Health is constituted by normative flexibility within given parameters. A key component of such normative flexibility is the capacity to nourish whatever boosts that flexibility. But flexibility does not and […]

We often speak about survival here, and I am working up a response to a piece in Salvage on the figure of “the survivor”. What constantly gets missed in these […]

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impasse etudes 1. i felt it one morning when i awoke but couldn’t move. my tongue slack jawed my saliva was the consistency of day old yellow curry my leg […]

The tragic thing is I think that Yanis is right failing to democratize the EU is likely to lead to another massive depression and the rise of yet again of […]

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
We are so deeply mired in our philosophies as to have evolved nothing better than a sordid version of…

From the comments on a previous post. It had a simple expression that please me: A more perfect hell would still be hell, and there is a legitimate concern that […]

“Dystopias infect official reports. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) demands a shift in our emissions by a third to avoid utter disaster. KPMG, in the leaden chattiness of […]

Thomas Ligotti has said in the past that he wishes people were more concerned with questions of justice. I’m not sure what justice means. It’s one of those abstract crumbling dreams […]

“I don’t know why we still call it capitalism. It seems to be some sort of failure or blockage of the poetic function of critical thought. Even its adherents have […]

Originally posted on lukebennett13:
“…No choice for sugar But what choice could there be? But to drown in coffee or to drown in tea The frustrations of being inanimate Maybe…

I keep promising to stop with the short posts and focus on writing long essays and completed sequences. My way of thinking is still trapped in a kind of hyperactivity. […]

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free from apprehension–though affected, certainly, […]

https://soundcloud.com/rebootfm/2011-02-02-transmediale-bifo franco shows up around 13:30 “The Insurrection: Diana McCarty interviews Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi on Radio Alice, social movements and media. The talk looks at the 1977 March uprising in […]

“Different kinds of particles are a different color,” explains climate scientist, Gavin Schmidt. “The easiest to see are the reddy-orange particles; those are dust and you can see them streaming […]

Here’s the opening of a fiction in progress, “The Instilling”< which I’ll be reading at a closed event in Dublin over the Halloween weekend. I’ve advertised it as “A post-singularity […]