http://ia601502.us.archive.org/2/items/151217OSPODCASTClimate/151217-OS-PODCAST-Climate.mp3 “Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature, says Thoreauvian wildness is exactly what our post-natural world requires. Purdy likes a new term, the anthropocene, to describe a geological age of […]

http://podcast.wpr.org/tbk/tbk160103a4.mp3 “Kurt Vonnegut joined his brother, Bernard, at General Electric in the late 1940s. Bernard was a scientist working on cutting-edge weather-control technologies while Kurt worked in G.E.’s PR department. Ginger Strand […]

“Andrew Goffey’s A Relentless Spinozism? In one of his final essays, The Exhausted, a reading of Samuel Beckett that was published as an accompaniment to a number of Beckett’s works […]

“I think she obliges us to confront a world, as Stuart Hall used to say, without guarantees, in which barbarism or barbarism may well be an accurate description of the […]

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
…in his book A Short Course of Economic Science, Bogdanov refers to a socialist society as being “based not on exchange but on natural self-sufficing…

Originally posted on Always Already Podcast:
This week we read Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, an exploration of the underlying systems of logic that drive…

Prof. David Harvey called for worldwide support for the alternative system to capitalism being established in Rojava. Professor David Harvey, who was a speaker at the “Challenging Capitalist Modernity” conference…

Socialism has had a sort of poor track record as of late when it comes to science and technology. From Stalin’s violent repression of Mendelian genetics (and privileging of the […]

I study the lives on a leaf: the little Sleepers, numb nudgers in cold dimensions, Beetles in caves, newts, stone-deaf fishes, Lice tethered to long limp subterranean weeds, Squirmers in […]

http://audio.wbur.org/download.php?url=//audio.wbur.org/storage/2015/03/onpoint_0305_moody-bitches-book-women-depression-medication.mp3 “Americans take a lot of pharmaceuticals to control their moods, their emotions, their state of mind.  And women take a lot more than men.  One in four American women, […]