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, […]

“The purpose of this thesis is to reconsider the nature of ontology in contemporary political science, with the belief that such a move can be of great benefit to understanding […]

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Phenomenology, as the movement inaugurated by Edmund Husserl (1859– 1938), is now a century old. Although the great precursor…

“Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with […]

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
Yuri di Liberto has published an article on my machine-oriented ontology and DeLanda’s work.  It can be found here.  Here’s the abstract: One of the…

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03cp8c7.mp3 “Sukhdev Sandhui travels to the epicentres of countercultural America in Woodstock and San Francisco to tell the story of a book of hippy philosophy…

http://files.newbooksnetwork.com/scitechsoc/126scitechsocmyers.mp3 “a sensory ethnography of protein crystallographers that is based on five years of fieldwork conducted between 2003-2008 at a research university on the East Coast of the US. “Protein […]

“But the fact is that there are limitations to what physical, policing and technological enhancements in cities can achieve. Not every bit of critical infrastructure can be made blast-proof. CCTV […]

“Wendy Chun lecture. New media exist as the bleeding edge of obsolescence. They are exciting when they are demonstrated, boring by the time they arrive. If a product does what […]

In his fairly recent book Laruelle: Against the Digital, Alexander Galloway surmises the idiosyncratic non-philosopher’s views on science as “elevating it to such a degree that it becomes synonymouswith non […]