The Collapse of Modern Hope
“[H]istoricist thinking and militant practice refuse to consider depression as a cognitive element, and this is a limit, one that today, for example, prevents us from being lucid about understanding […]
Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986, #2
“Photography is alright, if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops – for a split second.” – David Hockney In 1986, […]
Anne Dufourmantelle | On Risking Life
Anne Dufourmantelle was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst whose work focused on risk taking. Anne believed risk was essential to meaningful human life and argued that ”absolute security – like ‘zero […]
Siri Hustvedt | The Idea of the Between
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist, poet, and essayist – with six novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fictiont hat has been translated into over thirty languages.. Her […]
Weaponized Nihil
Two invigorating quotes from the diagnostician of the dark circus S.C Hickman: “[I]in our age of nihilism, there is the aesthetic as Nietzsche would advocate: the ability to stylize our […]
Survival Economics & DIY Markets in post-crash Detroit.
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Donna Haraway Reads the National Geographics of Primates
Donna Haraway is a Distinguished American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of […]
Adapted to a Symbolic Niche?
Terrence William Deacon (born 1950) is an American Neuroanthropologist (Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, Harvard University 1984). He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and […]
Foreclosure/Withdrawal?
The activist, whose phantom subject consciousness is defined by its vain wounds, collects injuries by throwing its body at a motionless objectivity, these are my chains, see how they chafe, this […]
Manuel DeLanda | A Comparison of Deleuze’s Assemblage Theory and the New Materialist Approach
Originally published on Jun 19, 2017, as video from the Assemblage Thinking Symposium 2017, at the University of the Aegean. ABSTRACT: This lecture will discuss the fundamental concepts of the theory […]
The Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity
Hickman with another brilliant set of codes to disrupt the current matrix: “This distancing of world, subject, and object would form the basis of our current secular culture and civilization […]
Acceleration, Ubiquity & Radical Disjunctures
Terry Smith is an Australian art historian, art critic and artist who currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, New York and Sydney. Since 2001 he has been Andrew W. Mellon […]
‘The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ – An Interview with Nick Land
‘The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ Interview with Nick Land by Marko Bauer and Andrej Tomažin In your 2014 book Templexity: Disordered Loops through Shanghai Time you write: […]
Unconditional Subtraction
Fuck acceleration. If the process accelerates it accelerates. It doesn’t need or want your complicity or your fantasies or collaboration. If you accelerate you accelerate. If you don’t you don’t. […]
An Introduction to the Cybernetic Science Non-Fiction of Contemporary Geopolitics \ Mohammad Salemy
Mohammad Salemy: This text is an experiment with a speculative form which is neither as “objective” as science, nor as subjective as science-fiction. ‘Science non-fiction’ is not just a neologism. […]
Active Annihilation and the Suicidal Civilization
“Nihilism is the first step in an active annihilation not of reality, but of the human illusions of reality; and of humanity itself as a primal illusion, one that must […]
Deleuze/Guattari: ‘Stop the World!’ — Techno Occulture
As a grad student in anthropology it was made very clear to me that Carlos Castaneda was undoubtedly a fraud as an ethnographer (see here), as Hickman alludes to, but […]
Andy Clark on Emotions, Cognition and the Predictive Mind
Andy Clark is a professor of philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. “To unravel the workings of these embodied, embedded, and sometimes […]
Elizabeth Grosz on Incorporeality, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism
Published May 22, 2017 in Theory Culture & Society: HERE VIKKI BELL: Many congratulations on the publication of your new book The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism […]
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