Originally posted on Collapse of Industrial Civilization:
In a civilization gone mad with delusions of grandeur, we’re left with tatters of human sociability held together by rancid mythologies. Despite human fossil fuel…

http://www.citylightspodcast.com/castplayer?castfile=citylightspodcast.com/episodes/FinnBrunton_011316.mp3&id=3809 “With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight […]

http://www.ttbook.org/book/conspiracy-theories

Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, […]

“Philosophical concepts are conceptually articulated in ways that distinguish them from the literary use of catachresis in Lovecraft, or in a very different context, J G Ballard’s Crash or his […]

http://www.ecoshock.info/2016/03/climate-war.html see also http://radioopensource.org/syria-the-21st-century-disaster/

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03nxn92.mp3 “On Start the Week Kirsty Wark asks how we make choices about freedom and authenticity – questions that preoccupied Paris intellectuals in the 1930s. Sarah Bakewell looks back at […]

also “It all looks awful in Brazil today. A scary articulation of corrupt politicians, class-driven judiciary and big capital is getting close to produce a coup d’état showing how colonized […]

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The much-hyped consumer virtual reality headset, Oculus Rift, is finally hitting the market. The reviews have been mixed. As…

Originally posted on environmental critique:
? Earthflow in Russia: April 1, 2015 “A couple of people emailed to suggest, and Brett Gilley noted in comments,  that this might be a…

http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20160328-Mon1200.mp3 “The revolutionary and psychiatrist Franz Fanon was arguably the greatest philosopher of anti-colonialism.  At a time when activists are turning the spotlight on racial oppression, he’s never been more […]

MONSTER BODY

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
Over the past few weeks I have been working my way through Michel Serres’s 1980 Le Parasite: a dense, poetic, brilliant text that seeks to tear…

It is the grass that moves, not the quails. Weary of embraces, she thought of Committing her body to the flame. When I shut my eyes, I hear far and […]

more @ http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/03/photos-endangered-african-wildlife-habitat-inherit-dust-brandt