“The ultimate battle lines are clear. It’s a question of whether all these sensors, filters, profiles and algorithms can be used by citizens and communities for some kind of emancipation […]

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2015_01_22_LGS/2015_01_22_Catherine_Malabou_talk.mp3 Q&A @ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2015/01/catherine-malabou-and-eric-laurent-psychoanalysis-and-the-cognitive-sciences/

starts around 12mins in

“Hence in discussion with Ray Brassier in Berlin I’m certainly not suggesting we envisage a future without antibiotics, although I did point out the various iatrogenic effects of capitalism, but […]

Fleshing out his own version of environmental (critters manipulating with/in their environs) psychology Andy asks Are You Your Brain, and Is Your Brain a Computer?

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
Perhaps “relation” is the wrong word for what is thought in ecological ontology.  There’s something too ghostly, too incorporeal, about relations.  Everything in the entire…

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
Thinking at the edge of the apocalypse requires an ecological thinking. Yet ecology must be rescued from green ecology, or that perspective that approaches it…

meanwhile in Germany

http://vimeo.com/112245598 “Ariel Salleh: The Vicissitudes of an Earth Democracy Even as we face the global crisis, an Earth on fire, the role of water goes unacknowledged. Yet it is water […]

“My wasteful and unproductive time was the only time I asked: What should I be doing? What is a worthwhile life? And so it followed that was the only time […]

Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
Thomas Metzinger recently emailed asking me to flag these cognitive science/philosophy of mind goodies–dividends of his OPENmind initiative–and to spread the word regarding his MIND…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Feminist Radical Thinkers: A Sampler – free e-book from Verso. A collection of extracts from leading second-wave feminists, including Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, Lynne Segal,…