Bezna 5 makes an ouroboric move of plunging into itself (‘Bezna’ in Romanian means consistent darkness + diffuse fear). Bezna 5 is darkly glowing dead thinking, cosmic pessimism, hairy autonomy, […]

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/wp-content/uploads/china_003.jpg “What are the alternatives to the oppressive regime we have and the dystopia the developing technologies can bring? We can say that the alternative…

“Given Venezuela’s economic straits, long lines for food and the desire of many to live somewhere free of political strife, you’d think hitting the lottery would be a good thing. […]

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Instead of exiling objects to the natural sciences (with the usual mixed emotions of condescension and fear), philosophy must…

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-obama-either-delusional-or-dumbest-son-bitch-planet

“The combination of automation, logistical command and financialization that enabled the mid-twentieth century’s “cybernetic revolution” has raised to a new intensity a fundamental dynamic of capitalism – its drive to […]

“The Office of Strategic Services (the CIA’s World War II–era precursor) created this document in 1944, for use by operatives in Europe who were trying to recruit civilians living in […]

“For myself, I’m closer to the way Donna Haraway goes about this, which likewise tries to ‘stay with the trouble’ of our times, but stays also in the world of […]

and Anthropocene Blues

http://files.newbooksnetwork.com/scitechsoc/125scitechsoctsing.mp3 “a “riot of short chapters” that collectively open out into a mushroom-focused exploration of what Tsing refers to as a “third nature,” or “what manages to live despite capitalism.” […]