Marxism: one in Name and one without. — Holo-Poiesis
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 […]
The Good News of Collapse
The ubiquitous tropes of the neo-liberal discourse – resilience, mobility, creativity, entrepreneurial flair, individualism – exist quite happily alongside their opposites – order, security, rigidity, fortification, retrenchment. Walls, literal and […]
Bendell’s Bristol Lecture on Deep Adaptation
This Jem Bendell’s lecture on Deep Adaptation, delivered in Bristol, UK, in Feb 2019. Bendell uses a more informal format, inviting the audience to explore forms of action additional to […]
Under the Sign of Erasure
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Capitalist realism is about a corrosion of social imagination, and in some ways, that remains the problem: after thirty…
Madhyamaka and the Problem of Approach
The following post by the writer at Holo-Poiesis addresses issues around the Buddhist concept dependent origination and its relation with similar concepts in western philosophy. It explicates a non-absolutist interpretation […]
A philo-Fiction
First Fiction: It is tempting to believe that thought, or something in thought, such as wisdom or knowledge, is accumulated and preserved: one often hears an appeal to the tradition […]
Patchwork Design For Wicked Problems?
Wholesome Design For Wicked Problems by Rob Knapp Problem: One often regards difficulties or issues as problems to be solved, but one must beware the implication that the first step […]
Exit/Sublime
A black hole. Not even light can escape. No sooner has light of a sort escaped, though (an image of the event horizon) then already it’s actual incomprehensibility is subsumed […]
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (1973)
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning by Horst W., J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber Policy Sciences Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jun., 1973), pp. 155-169 Abstract: The search for scientific […]
Nefarious Agents: Elliot Abrams
This is the first in an ongoing series intended to peel back the glossy facade of ideology and intellectual fancy to show the all-to-human faces of agents of power. It’s […]
The Upside of Accepting Collapse?
The Benefits of Accepting the Possibility of Environmental Collapse and Human Extinction By John Bell British Professor of Sustainability Leadership, Jem Bendell, has recently published a thoughtful review of the […]
Black Hole Sun: On the Materialist Sublime
From Thomas Nail: The first image of black hole has just been released today. This is a profound and important aesthetic moment from a new materialist perspective. The image is […]
Requiem for the Abyss
From the mindings of S.C Hickman: Society—an inferno of saviors! —Emile Cioran No one reads the decadents much anymore, maybe it is because we have moved the world into a […]
The Secular Fanaticism of Indifference
“Maybe we need an indifferent politics, as well. A politics that no longer seeks to erase, exclude, and shame the opposition into hyperconformity. Without oppositional thinking, without contrarian thought we […]
Climate Change as Ecological Colonialism
Abstract: Climate change is a consequence of a clash between deregulated capitalism and the welfare of mankind deeply entrenched in a capitalist economic system based upon the persistent exploitation of […]
Dead Subjects: On Heretical Defiance and Fabricated Philosophy
“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings
Patchwork as Real World Vectors
Patchwork as Real World Vectors by Chris Shaw [original source: The Libertarian Ideal] I define patchwork as the adaptation and fragmentation of institutional structures through the processes of exit and voice. […]
The Madhouse Effect
How climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy. This was recorded on Wednesday, March 06, 2019 at MIT: Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor […]
Landscapes of Terminal Capitalism
“Aporias of Responsibility: Lifeworlds Inherited, Inhabited and Bequeathed” The ‘Anthropocene’ captures an emerging recognition, and interest in, the specificity of human geo-social formations; that is, the simultaneous operation of human-created […]
Mad Speculations of Becoming
The question remains one of how exactly the hallucinatory activity of cognition can best adapt to the black chaotic assemblages of contemporary forces. Excerpts from Ben Woodard’s “Mad Speculation and […]
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