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Visualizing Alternatives to Carboniferous Capitalism

October 31, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

From Trudi Lynn Smith and James K. Rowe originally published on CTheory in 2017. … Pipelines as Sun Tunnels: Visualizing Alternatives to Carboniferous Capitalism Canada is home to the third […]

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Stuart Kauffman on Complexity & Catalytics and Evolution

October 29, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Professor, MacArthur Fellow and author Stuart Kauffman talks with Jim Rutt about the major themes of his career: complexity, auto-catalytic chemical sets, protocells and the origins of life, the problem […]

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Concepts adequate to the times?

October 29, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From Mckenzie Wark: Now that the world most of us have known is ending, it might be time to pay more attention to the experience of those whose world has […]

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The Delusion of Technological Transcendence

October 28, 2019by dmf 7 Comments

Confronting rather than ignoring a good argument is not only a more honest approach but can also be quite rewarding. This interview with Prof. Richard Jones is full of good […]

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Kurzweil, Uncategorized

Towards a Terran Resistance Front?

October 24, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

E-Flux‘s latest installment has a great piece by Sven Lütticken, ‘Toward a Terrestrial‘, riffing on communist history and its possible mutations towards a terrestrial politics. Latour’s theoretic attractor “The Terrestrial” […]

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Latour, Marx, Viveiros de Castro

the residual dilemma

October 22, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

To celebrate that which came after Henri Bergson ushering William James out of the delusion of rationalism: Let us leave out the soul, then, and confront what I just called […]

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allergic to complicity

September 6, 2019by ||| 6 Comments

Andrew Culp thinks D&G would be anti-accelerationists (especially re: capitalism), and against assisting the opposition in any way. Perverts take notice: Deleuze and Guattari are less used than abused in the […]

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Deleuze

magnitudes of the end

September 6, 2019by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Sometimes you come across something and think: fuck, I wish I’d written that. Well… Our starting point is clear. This is the end of a world, and if we are […]

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the im/possibility of arrival

August 30, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

“The fantastic, then, pushes towards an area of non-signification. It does this either by attempting to articulate ‘the unnameable’, the ‘nameless things’ of horror fiction, attempting to visualize the unseen, […]

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Zizek

the work that Truth would do

August 21, 2019by ||| 15 Comments

i dig this. basically a succinct bit on post-nihilist orientation from rando Twitter human @iguesssoidk: Lets call nihilism the disbelief in mind-external meaning. The idea is that you will never […]

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Hyphon_ on Accelerationism and The Plane of Total Abstraction

August 13, 2019by ||| 4 Comments

Below are fragments from Matt Wiedmann‘s astonishingly sober and brilliantly savage takedown of the online Accelerationist orgy of detached cynicism and obfuscation perpetrated by the privileged, misanthrope, neo-liberalized hordes of theory-kids.  […]

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provisionality and truth

July 9, 2019by ||| 8 Comments

All hedged betting has been halted. We are too damned busy with flesh tactics to type electric words into fabricated scripts. Expect mostly strategic delirium and fragments from here on […]

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Derrida

Nick Land on Programmatic Practicality

July 8, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

|| patchwork as programmatic practicality || there is much to be said of the weirding and corrosiveness liberty of deterritorializing, while an equal amount is to be done about the […]

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Ende Gelände

July 8, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

Ende Gelände is a German coalition of climate action groups dedicated to direct action for climate justice. Ende Gelände Ende Gelände 2019! We are unstoppable, another world is possible! from […]

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Jem Bendell at XR

July 8, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

Jem Bendell’s speech at the opening of Extinction Rebellions International Rebellion on April 15th, 2019. Jem Bendell at Extinction Rebellion

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Bendell, Jennings, Uncategorized

Non-Philosophical Knosis

July 8, 2019by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

Nothing can, except through illusion, substitute itself for man and for his identity. And man cannot, except through illusion, substitute himself for philosophy, for the Other,etc. Man is an inalienable […]

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Jennings, Laruelle, Uncategorized

Climate change? No change here.

July 7, 2019by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

  This action by extinction rebellion France and the Police response to it  is an example of what we should expect from the forces of the state if we dare […]

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This is a Crisis

July 7, 2019by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

This sober and sobering report on climate breakdown and it’s social, political and economic implications is by the British Institute for Public Policy. (free pdf link at the end of […]

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From False Globalisation to the One Communist World, via the Question of ‘Foreigners’

July 1, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

Badiou examines the relation between the Communist Hypothesis and the question of immigration and the ‘foreigner’, and suggests that, in order to pursue the consequences of the declaration that we […]

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Marxism: one in Name and one without. — Holo-Poiesis

July 1, 2019by Patrick jennings 4 Comments

There seems to be two general currents in Marxism, one current proceeds from the form of Marx’s critique, the other from the motion underlying the critique. By “motion” I am […]

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Marx, Uncategorized

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