“I don’t know why we still call it capitalism. It seems to be some sort of failure or blockage of the poetic function of critical thought. Even its adherents have […]

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“…No choice for sugar But what choice could there be? But to drown in coffee or to drown in tea The frustrations of being inanimate Maybe…

I keep promising to stop with the short posts and focus on writing long essays and completed sequences. My way of thinking is still trapped in a kind of hyperactivity. […]

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free from apprehension–though affected, certainly, […]

https://soundcloud.com/rebootfm/2011-02-02-transmediale-bifo franco shows up around 13:30 “The Insurrection: Diana McCarty interviews Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi on Radio Alice, social movements and media. The talk looks at the 1977 March uprising in […]

“Different kinds of particles are a different color,” explains climate scientist, Gavin Schmidt. “The easiest to see are the reddy-orange particles; those are dust and you can see them streaming […]

Here’s the opening of a fiction in progress, “The Instilling”< which I’ll be reading at a closed event in Dublin over the Halloween weekend. I’ve advertised it as “A post-singularity […]

“The question I face, the question we all face, the ethical question at the heart of human life and the ethical question Buddhism helps us see at the heart of […]

When I am manic I am a leftist; when I feel normal I am a pessimist.  The key question of post-nihilist praxis is why should anybody care about anything. We’re split […]

http://podcast.wpr.org/tbk/tbk151025a.mp3 “H.P. Lovecraft’s influence on pop culture has exploded in recent years. But why? Erik Davis is a cultural critic and the author of the essay, “Calling Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft’s Magickal Realism.” […]

“As a response to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s critique of my essay “Fetishes are gods in the process of construction,” this paper enters into critical engagement with anthropological proponents of […]

Your friend has died, with whom You roamed the streets, At all hours, talking philosophy. So, today you went alone, Stopping often to change places With your imaginary companion, And […]

This is Not Cool Above, scientists explain why climate change intensifies storms and precipitation. CNN: Patricia — the strongest hurricane ever recorded — barreled closer and closer Friday morning to […]

“New research, new methods and new data offer some promising pathways for novel theories and concepts to understand how urban existence gets under the skin. For example, we could combine […]

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits […]

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Deleuze habitually condemns “discussion” as narcissistic and sterile, an empty social ritual to be avoided at all costs: It is already hard enough to understand…