The black bloc, the spectacle and the therapy of violence
A mass of black clad bodies move through a thick haze, smoke or tear-gas coagulating the air. Incendiary flashes in the dark; sparks illuminating nothing of the masked faces. […]
Bring Me My Machine Gun – Die Antwoord
We Are No Longer Waiting For Godot…
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth, Alan Weisman & Ursula K. Heise
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth, Alan Weisman & Ursula K. Heise “In conversation with Ursula K. Heise, professor of English and faculty, UCLA Institute of […]
The Neuroscience of No-thing, Richard O. Brown
“Richard O. Brown, Staff Neuroscientist at The Exploratorium, talks about the interaction between mind and matter and visual perception. He talks about and illustrates with fascinating visuals three concepts: 1. […]
Kelly Reichardt talks Night Moves
Kelly Reichardt talks Night Moves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Moves_%282013_film%29 I love well made movies but wonder if the arts actually gear us up to act in the world or instead may provide us […]
O Sweet Spontaneous by E.E.Cummings
sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty, how […]
Evolved to Conform: Tadeusz Zawidzki on Mindshaping
Evolved to Conform: Tadeusz Zawidzki on Mindshaping “Social cognition involves a small bundle of cognitive capacities and behaviors that enable us to communicate and get along with one another, a […]
Generative Tensions, Leaps of Faith
“Kimerer Lamothe, McKenzie Wark (The New School), and author Paul Lieberman, with moderator Reihan Salam, consider the media at the Kierkegaard bicentennial celebration organized by the Center on Capitalism and […]
Tim Ingold on Anthropology, Ars, and Self-Transformation
Tim Ingold on Anthropology, Ars, and Self-Transformation thanks to: (Slow) Food for Thoughts: Ingold on Anthropology, Art and Self-Transformation Link to the video of the lecture: here “Comparing the work […]
Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement, Lisa Guenther
Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement, Lisa Guenther ABC Radio’s Alone &Apart interview of a friend of the blog and advocate for the locked down and out: “When Lisa Guenther took the […]
Tim DeChristopher On Civil Disobedience
“Tim DeChristopher is a climate justice activist and co-founder of the nonprofit Peaceful Uprising. In 2008, Tim committed an act of nonviolent civil disobedience when he disrupted a government oil […]
Concentration, Isolation, and Clear-Cut Distinctions, Samuel Weber
The Calculable and the Incalculable: Hölderlin after Kittler
The Calculable and the Incalculable: Hölderlin after Kittler “Samuel Weber teaches literature and critical theory at Northwestern University, whose Paris Program in Critical Theory he also directs. He studied with […]
Jaron Lanier On Resisting Standardized Forms & Aggregation
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFW9qxKojrE LIVE from NYPL interview starts at about 1:27:00
The Age Of Quarrel Cro-Mags
Dominance in the Anthropocene
In a the comments to a previous post by Michael- on the Anthropocene, Kai asked me a few questions. I’d like to begin to answer those questions, and this is […]
Facing Destruction: Isabelle Stengers and Michal Osterweil
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnGCc_FvEGU @CRESC’s In/Vulnerabilities and Social Change conference Stengers &Osterwall try and talk “beyond the academia/activist divide”. sent to us by: http://andreling.wordpress.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fgMMtUA87U
Emerson: Nietzsche’s Voluptuary by David Farrell Krell
Andrew Feenberg’s Immanent Critique of Technology
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4g1_8toBVY via the good folks @ http://figureground.org Dr. Andrew Feenberg discusses the central ideas from his new book, The Philosophy Of Praxis: Marx, Lukács And The…
Ranciere – Anarchism, Para-Academia, Pure Politics, & the Non-Human
“Jacques Ranciere interviewed by Duane Rousselle at Trent University about the problems with traditional anarchist political thinking, the crises in humanities-based higher education (and the new models), the critique of […]
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