The Emergence of an Ecological Marx?
The Ecological Marx Karl Marx was born 200 years ago this year and died on March 14, 1883, leaving behind a formidable and deeply impacting body of work that is […]
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What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk
A CRUCIAL report from the National Centre for Climate Restoration, Melbourne, Australia. First published September 2017. Revised and updated August 2018: What Lies Beneath (2018) is an important report. It does not […]
Wyrdpatch Workshop II (video)
WYRDPATCH WORKSHOP #2 (video) via @Diffractions collective talking patchwork, deep adaptation, darwinian intelligences, and genealogy – featuring presentations by Alice Farmer and Amy Ireland. You can […]
Ecologics and Anthropogenic Transition
Originally posted on Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Anthropocene:
Kenneth McLeod, Anthropocene Transitions Program, October 2018 The first draft of this paper was prepared as a talk for Social…
“Action relies on courage, not hope.”
From October 9, 2018 The New Republic: The Case for Climate Pessimism By EMILY ATKIN Some climate change activists oppose doom-and-gloom rhetoric. They know that, if we don’t reduce greenhouse gas […]
Accelerationism in a nutshell?
If you had to sum up the essence of Accelerationism in a nutshell, you could do worst than recommend somebody watch this: Sometimes, 5 minutes of audio visual composition, beats […]
desert storms
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
it’s later than we thought
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
no (global) future
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by Anonymous Author’s Note I […]
(re)Imagining Infrastructures
Fascinating discussion from last year, out of the British Academy, about what infrastructure is and how the concept may have subtly changed over time (for example, the material and conceptual, […]
Xenogothic on Patchwork Subjectivities
I couldn’t be more stoked about Arran’s spectacular return to blogging on this website. His contributions, already, are catalyzing several important lines of thought and will only improve and intensify […]
13 – by James Luchte
Honor and reverence for the Muses, breathe ecstatic life into my words. The centre is everywhere, chaos, a chasm, a womb – Erupting flames of necessary and tragic contingency. But, […]
Ray Brassier: Marx & Philosophy
RAY BRASSIER: MARX & PHILOSOPHY The New Centre for Research & Practice – Streamed live on Jan 20, 2018 DESCRIPTION: Marx’s analysis of capital continues to haunt contemporary theoretical discourse. As […]
Livestream with Justin Murphy
Below is video from a livestream chat I did with Justin Murphy on August 18, 2018. Justin is Lecturer in Governance and Policy within Politics & International Relations at the […]
The ‘Problem’ of Thinking?
The intermingling influence of both American pragmatism and French philosophy on my intellectual interests and cognitive style remains strong. In this short paper, Rabinow does a great job of explicating […]
Logistics, Counterlogistics, and the Communist Prospect
LOGISTICS, COUNTERLOGISTICS AND THE COMMUNIST PROSPECT by Jasper Bernes What is theory for? What good is it, in the fight against capital and state? For much of the left, the […]
Interpassive User: Complicity and the Returns of Cybernetics
Interpassive User: Complicity and the Returns of Cybernetics – Svitlana Matviyenko – Abstract: This essay discusses the notions of “extension” and “prosthesis” as two different logics and modes of being […]
We’re Fucked. So (Now) What? | R. Scott Bakker
“Conscious self-creation.” This is the nostrum Roy Scranton offers at the end of his now notorious piece, “We’re Doomed. Now What?” Conscious self-creation is the ‘now what,’ the imperative that […]
Buddhist Futures: The Black Hole of Post-Capitalism
In addition to the content itself, I think this piece by Shaun Bartone is a valuable example of how to approach the genre of buddhofiction. Approach, not arrive at. Let […]
For Whom the Real Turns – A Review of ‘After the Speculative Turn’ (2016)
A Review of “After the ‘Speculative Turn’: Realism, Philosophy, Feminism” (ed. Kolozova and Joy) by Bogna M Konior Moving back and forth, spinning around and adding more threads, the spider […]
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