Complicity at the Edge of Extinction
“Techno-optimism is much worse than techno-pessimism”
Anthropocene Hubris
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 […]
Staying with the Trouble: Haraway on Multispecies Cosmopolitics
“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.”
WyrdPatchworks 5
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, […]
UNCIVILISATION: THE DARK MOUNTAIN MANIFESTO
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 […]
Pandaemic Speculations: A Multilogue
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 […]
Sunny Nihilism?
[ 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 […]
Post-nihilist praxis and pessimism: rehashing some old ground
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 […]
Cybernetics and the Genealogy of Time Governance
[ 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 […]
Gray sky thinking: Augustine and institutional resilience
Nearly every apocalyptic text presents the same paradox. The end is never the end. […] Something is left over, and that world after the world, the post-apocalypse, is usually the […]
Kim Stanley Robinson, THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE
Philosopher and cultural critic Steven Shaviro reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s new book: “The Ministry for the Future (2020) is dedicated to Fredric Jameson, and it offers an elegant and effective […]
Artificial Intelligence – Limitless Potential vs Liminal Transcendence
January 2020 – Berlin The rapid development of so-called “artificial intelligence” presents both society and culture with increasing challenges on various fronts. When it comes to implementations in the arts, […]
Non-Philosophy and Speculative Posthumanism
“a biomorphic posthumanism is no longer about the human relation to the future… It is the insurgency of an Outside…” @turingcop [cc: @bognamk]
Alien Agency: Material Agency, Art, Experimental Life.
Below is a free-form conversation between world-renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering and Chris Salter on the topic of material agency, performance, art and experimental practices within the realm of […]
Gray sky thinking: Plato and political decay
Since destruction (φθορά) awaits everything that has come to be, even a foundation of this kind will not survive for the whole of time. It will fall apart, and this […]
Non-Philosophy with John Ó Maoilearca
Laruelle’s work navigates an interesting paradox. On the one hand it can be incredibly straightforward, perhaps more so for those who have not been indoctrinated into philosophical thought. On the […]
The Collapse of Change: A View from the Future
The ship’s log of Novo Potosi is an exploration of the future looking backward to recent Latin American history. Almost like an anthropology of the future, Potosi explores a dystopian […]
A field guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction
The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. Its scale defies comprehension, and conceals its true nature – not as one gigantic issue, but as many. In order […]
Introduction to gray sky thinking
The only time I felt hope was when you told me you could see no hope, and you continued with the analysis.” – A comment by one of Donald Winnicott’s […]
2050: Risk, Security, Collapse
“The true worst-case scenario might be one where we don’t venture out from our safe harbors of knowledge to explore the more treacherous shores of uncertainty.” — Dr. Gavin Schmidt, […]
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