http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/11/postpolitical-infrastructures/#.VGyUSfnF-So “Can the planet be hacked? That might be the question for these times. Can the infrastructure being built out, one which precludes by design old-fashioned ‘politics’, yield to new […]

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http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2014.11.17_health_radicals.mp3 “According to Theodore Brown, proletarian internationalism converged with social medicine in the early twentieth century; what emerged, he asserts, was a “health internationalism” rooted in the belief that factors […]

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
this sort of sermon could lead to endless debates over whether things/relations are really blobs or lines, I’m more interested in what using such figures of speech allows us to […]

Massimo Pigliucci and Julia Galef on the Rationally Speaking podcast discuss the various epistemological, ontological, mereological and ethical strains of nihilism. The conversation is of an introductory nature but has value in the range that […]

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/11/field-notes/notes-from-the-anthropocene-1 “As Lauren Berlant writes, “the present is perceived, first, affectively: the present is what makes itself present to us before it becomes anything else” (Cruel Optimism, 4). This series […]

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/11/hht_20141116.mp3 “In Australia, in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, more than sixty pieces of legislation have been passed into law, that significantly strengthen the […]

http://vimeo.com/108273539 Annemarie Mol’s take on empirical philosophy: Science studies brought the sciences down to earth. Instead of accepting the existence of ‘universals’, it explored how facts relate to local practices […]

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The revolutionary project of a classless society, of an all-embracing historical life, implies the withering away of the social…

death-metal band fronted by a parrot, what’s not to love?

See no need to worry folks the engineers are here to save the day…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth‘ lecture and the discussion following it, at Nottingham Contemporary gallery last night. The introduction is by Emma Moore,…

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