Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
An excellent book, and great talk:

http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2015.01.06_radical_imagination.mp3 “According to Alex Khasnabish, we’re in the midst of a double crisis, one hammering the general population and the other affecting the work of radical activists. Khasnabish believes that […]

Locality and Its Implications I’ve yet to be convinced that we need anything more than an understanding of habit-uation (which of course includes being embodied/situated) to explain social ordering.

Unplanned History: Communities of Resisitance. The title of this presentation proposes a paradox as its starting point: unplanned history. History eludes planning, since it has already happened. Yet the writing […]

Originally posted on Kurdish Issue:
By David Graeber and Pinar Öğünç/ December 26, 2014 Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, activist, anarchist David Graeber had written an article…

Originally posted on word pond:
http://www.johnbr.com/zeitgeist_spam/2015/01/in-the-house-of-the-hangman-1904.html

Not sure why Barad became trendy in a way that Andy Pickering hasn’t, any thoughts out there?

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/02/scare-tactics-michel-houellebecq-on-his-new-book/ “No. My book describes the destruction of the philosophy handed down by the Enlightenment, which no longer makes sense to anyone, or to very few people. Catholicism, by contrast, […]

I would prefer not to….

Click to access Hackers-Class-Draft2014.pdf

http://sydney.edu.au/podcasts/2014/professor_nikolas_rose_on_mental_life_in_the_metropolis.mp3 “URBAN BRAINS, URBAN LIVES AND THE EMBODIMENT OF URBANICITY: How does the experience of urban living get under the skin? How do different forms of urban life shape body […]

What’s the Matter? – Materiality and Materialism at the Age of Computation How can materiality and materialism be rethought in the rich and multifaceted context of contemporary computational architecture, and […]

Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
Let’s get Real. We’re not a ghostly repository of combinatorial contents… Or freedom leaping ab initio out of ontological contradiction… Or a totality of originary and everyday horizons of meaning… Or a normative function of converging…

No catastrophes in the making, really?

“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accomodate ourselves for a time. For you must not forget, we can also build. […]