Originally posted on environmental critique:
by Rick Elmore There is a deep affinity between what is called Speculative Realism (SR) and pessimism, insofar as both of these philosophical approaches understand…

Originally posted on gonepublic by Noëlle McAfee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azeqs20Watw When I was a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1990s, I was an occasional guest…

Dan & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy’s An Algorithmic Agartha via http://www.ufblog.net/electrocene/ see also http://www.theocculture.net/let-the-tuning-commence/

Francois Roche @ http://www.new-territories.com/

Originally posted on Reverse the panoptic gaze:
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Journalist Scott Horton explains how America’s foreign policy moved into the shadows. Scott is author of the new book Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare. […]

http://resslerlab.com/site/

“It’s part of a larger trend. The scientific revolution was meant to challenge tradition and faith, particularly a faith in religious superstition. But today, Enlightenment ideas like reason and science […]

http://www.lucymcrae.net/

https://www.academia.edu/6720064/The_Circle_of_Parrhesia_and_Democracy

http://files.newbooksnetwork.com/nbnseminar/003nbnseminarshaviro.mp3 “Steven Shaviro’s new book is a wonderfully engaging study of speculative realism, new materialism, and the ways in which those fields can speak to and be informed by the […]

Beware of technocrats, especially technocrats in a hurry…

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/weird-thoreau-jeff-vandermeer-southern-reach http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/downloads.wired.com/podcasts/assets/underwire/geeksguide103final.mp3

~ contributed by Marina Zurkow to http://keepitdirty.org/