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Mobilising Shack Dwellers in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Mobilising Shack Dwellers in Post-Apartheid South Africa “S’bu Zikode founded Abahlali baseMjondolo in KwaZulu-Natal, his home province, in 2005 and was the first President. He founded it on a strong […]
Ecosovereignty: Without Nationalism? Omar Dahbour interviewed
Ecosovereignty: Without Nationalism? Omar Dahbour interviewed http://web.gc.cuny.edu/philosophy/faculty/dahbour.htm
Empire, Biopower, Spectacle: Notes on Tiqqun
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
Today’s territory is the product of many centuries of police operations. People have been pushed out of their fields, then their streets, then their neighborhoods,…
Simon Critchley – SHITISFUCKEDUPANDBULLSHIT
for the rest of his “short discourse on the consequences of the separation of power and politics” go to: https://www.ici-berlin.org/docu/critchley/?tx_bddbflvvideogallery_pi1=2
Rob Neuwirth: The 21st-century Medieval City
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChPmtNpUvHo “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living…
Urban Futures?
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The idea that cities have a future is almost quaint in this age of decline and fiscal bankruptcy, yet…
Alternative Utopias & the Crisis of Imagination, Alexander Kiossev
Alternative Utopias & the Crisis of Imagination, Alexander Kiossev http://uni-sofia.academia.edu/AlexanderKiossev
What Does the Rule of Law Really Mean? Baroness Helena Kennedy
What Does the Rule of Law Really Mean? Baroness Helena Kennedy “Baroness Helena Kennedy, barrister, writer and broadcaster, questions law’s role in a time of conflict, increasing inequality and global […]
Junkyard Planet
Junkyard Planet
Voluntarism in the Catastrophic, West & Butler on Said.
We should not shy away from being committed/activist humanists if we care about life on this planet. “We suffer in this age from an indifference toward criminality and a callousness […]
Interview of Niklas Luhmann
After folks like Derrida, Ingold, and Wittgenstein I’m more than a bit dubious about there actually being distinct “systems” (how would they be ruled/transmitted?) and would highly recommend The Social […]
Shopping the Planet to Death, Radio Ecoshock
Shopping the Planet to Death, Radio Ecoshock Growthbusters producer Dave Gardner on municipal growth ponzi schemes. Plus hot green “sermon” on direct action vs. consumer stupor – by Reverend Billy […]
Unlimited Migration in a Limited World, Saskia Sassen
interesting presentation on what she calls the analytic tactics (working out of “epistemic indignation”) before method, which makes sense I think if we consider these terms along sociological lines rather […]
Ian Bogost on Hyperemployment
Ian Bogost on Hyperemployment If you don’t yet follow Ian’s blend of engineering know-how and waxing philosophical you should and can @: http://www.bogost.com/blog/
Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene
Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene sort of remarkable for the NYTimes tho I’m an admirer of their financial columnist Gretchen Morgenson’s work.
Some People are More Equal than Others, David Simon
Home Any other fans of The Wire in the house?
Every revolution has its square, Erik Swyngedouw
Foucault, Fearless Speech & the Notion of Critique
Tony Schirato speaks on “Foucault, Fearless Speech & the Notion of Critique” with responses by Pat Moloney and David Rosenbloom. http://www.philosophyandculture.org
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