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Spinoza – A Philosopher for Our Time?

February 2, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. One of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the […]

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Spinoza

Superior Forms of Corruption: Xenofeminism ways of building a world from srcaps

January 30, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

From: Lesia Prokopenko Revising the split between the natural and the artificial, xenofeminism offers ways of constructing a viable future from former spaces of violence and inhibition. The Xenofeminist Manifesto is […]

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Bratton, Hester, Ireland

Affect & Vulnerability: Spinoza & Deleuze on Negativity

January 29, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

The lecture below responds to criticisms that Spinoza cannot account for vulnerability since he does not have a strong enough conception of negativity that could account for loss and mourning. […]

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Butler, Deleuze, Spinoza, Uncategorized

Embracing Subsistence Agriculture During the Collapse of Industrial Capitalism

January 29, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

We occupy human environments that are overlapped by numerous social, moral, and political systems. Some of these interlock while it’s unclear how exactly others relate to one another. The more […]

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Colby

The Way Of The Violent Stars (excerpts)

January 12, 2021by ||| 5 Comments

To be clear, I would never identify as an “anarcho-primitivist,” but there is much in the discourses and methods of those who do, and who have contributed greatly to ecological […]

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Leaning Into Uncertainty: A Life of Anticipating the Worst-Case Scenario

December 29, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

“The catastrophes we face are growing more complex, but at the same time, we also have access to more perspectives and more resources to face that complexity.” from Earth Institute […]

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Collapse Patchworks: A Theory

December 23, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Originally published on THE LIBERTARIAN IDEAL: Collapse Patchworks: A Theory by Chris Shaw The complexity of modern industrial, social and organisational flows presents the headlong perception of dromological speed[1]. As […]

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Shaw

Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

December 22, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling: […]

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Wolf-Meyer

Deterritorializing the Future?

December 18, 2020by ||| 4 Comments

“The era of climate change involves the mutation of systems beyond 20th century anthropomorphic models and has stood, until recently, outside representation or address. Understood in a broad and critical […]

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Colebrook

Resisting the Coming Barbarism

December 17, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Isabelle Stengers’ book, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism (2015), is available for free as a .pdf download here. Below is an official description of the book: There has […]

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Stengers

seduction of a cyborg

December 14, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1994.

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Complicity at the Edge of Extinction

December 1, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

“Techno-optimism is much worse than techno-pessimism”

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Anthropocene Hubris

November 30, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Anthropocene Hubris by Stephanie Wakefield source: E-FLUX Precarious Entanglement In the Anthropocene—the current terminal period of neoliberal capitalism marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and social-political unraveling—calls to rethink human […]

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Wakefield

Staying with the Trouble: Haraway on Multispecies Cosmopolitics

November 27, 2020by dmf 3 Comments

“After centuries of genocides, environmental destruction and its unevenly distributed suffering… Haraway suggests that humans turn to SF – string figures, science fiction, speculative fabulation, speculative feminism – as mechanisms for envisioning the future.”

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Haraway

WyrdPatchworks 5

November 27, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

In the wake of Covid-19 and its convulsions that have rendered ever more salient a global system dependent on the warp and weft of global supply chains and logistical systems, […]

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Uhall

UNCIVILISATION: THE DARK MOUNTAIN MANIFESTO

November 26, 2020by Linnewho 3 Comments

UNCIVILISATION THE DARK MOUNTAIN MANIFESTO Rearmament These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass Makes pity a fool, the tearing pity For the atoms of the […]

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Pandaemic Speculations: A Multilogue

November 23, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

From AGOSTO FOUNDATION: 1. In what way does the current COVID-19 epidemic restructure the relationship between domesticity and wilderness? Borbála Soós: A virus is not strictly speaking alive, however it cannot grow or […]

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Sunny Nihilism?

November 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

[ Source: here] ‘Since discovering I’m worthless my life has felt precious’ Nihilism is back in fashion, and for younger generations the idea that existence is meaningless is cause for […]

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Nietzsche

Post-nihilist praxis and pessimism: rehashing some old ground

November 18, 2020by Arran Crawford 77 Comments

REPOST FROM 2015: In the last few months I have begun to explore philosophical pessimism, although not in writing and not on syntheticzero. It might seem strange to do so […]

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Cybernetics and the Genealogy of Time Governance

November 16, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

[ SOURCE ] In the following article, Ceci Nelson re-reads the history of cybernetics through the entanglement of time and governance. As social turbulence and ecological collapse intensified across the […]

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