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Embracing Subsistence Agriculture During the Collapse of Industrial Capitalism

January 29, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

We occupy human environments that are overlapped by numerous social, moral, and political systems. Some of these interlock while it’s unclear how exactly others relate to one another. The more […]

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Leaning Into Uncertainty: A Life of Anticipating the Worst-Case Scenario

December 29, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

“The catastrophes we face are growing more complex, but at the same time, we also have access to more perspectives and more resources to face that complexity.” from Earth Institute […]

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PROTOCOLS FOR THE PHASE TRANSITION

October 23, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

From THE TERRAFORMING: As new urgencies surface and new territories are defined, new alliances must be built. Inspired by the typology of starling murmuration, A.S.T. (Diann Bauer, Felice Grodin, Patricia […]

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2050: Risk, Security, Collapse

October 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

“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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Paul Kingsnorth on Dark Ecology

October 9, 2020by ||| 7 Comments

Originally Published in Orion Magazine (2012): “Take the only tree that’s left,Stuff it up the hole in your culture.” —Leonard Cohen “Retreat to the desert, and fight.” —D. H. Lawrence […]

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Kaczynski, Kingsnorth

Preparing for the end of the world as we know it

September 24, 2020by ||| 5 Comments

From the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is a collective of researchers, artists, educators, activists and Indigenous knowledge keepers from the Global North and South. […]

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Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordances

September 24, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordancesby Manuel Heras-Escribano (June 2020) Affordances, or the possibilities for acting in our environments, are pervasive in everyday life. We are constantly surrounded by them: […]

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unnerving realities of the Wet’suwet’en

January 7, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

There are times I find it difficult to express publicly in certain spheres of attention the work I do within social movements as an organizer. Often, in predominantly Caucasian and […]

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Bendell’s Bristol Lecture on Deep Adaptation

May 26, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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A Deep Adaptation Primer

January 23, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

This is post functions as a constantly evolving primer for most things related to Deep Adaptation – an intellectual and pragmatic framework proposed by Dr. Jem Bendell in his July 2018 paper, […]

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Bendell, Read

Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation

January 9, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

SOURCE: Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation “People need hope, Jem.” “It’s really important to have a vision of a better future, […]

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Fourteen Recommendations on Living Beyond Collapse-Denial

October 29, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

Dr. Jem Bendell is a Cambridge educated Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria (UK). He focuses on […]

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October WYRDPATCH WORKSHOP

October 22, 2018by ||| 1 Comment

The folks at Diffractions Collective in Prague, in collaboration with a few other groups, are hosting a second Wyrd/Patchworkshop on October 26, 2018, at 5:30pm in the U.K (9:30am Mountain […]

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Ireland, James

desert storms

October 13, 2018by ||| 4 Comments

We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]

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Struggle Without Fear

October 8, 2018by Patrick jennings 7 Comments

Struggle Without Fear by Patrick Jennings 1. This text came about as a comment on Arran’s post “The Ko’an of Extinction”. It is not a critique as much as a […]

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Crawford, Jennings

Deep Adaptation: Navigating Climate Tragedy

October 4, 2018by ||| 31 Comments

Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy by Dr. Jem Bendell PUBLISHED July 27, 2018 Abstract: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an opportunity […]

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Deeply Adaptive Patchworking vs. Fully Automated Fantasy

September 29, 2018by Arran Crawford 9 Comments

Interest in patchwork is moving out beyond its capture in the Landian gravity-well and as it does attention is moving from the system to the object level. The people I’m […]

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The Use and Abuse of Models

August 24, 2018by ||| 13 Comments

In response to recent pushback on patchwork theory Xenogothic asks the following questions: perhaps the problem here is the very thinking of patchwork as a model in the first place… […]

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Berger, Deleuze, Xenogothic

We’re Fucked. So (Now) What? | R. Scott Bakker

August 13, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

“Conscious self-creation.” This is the nostrum Roy Scranton offers at the end of his now notorious piece, “We’re Doomed. Now What?” Conscious self-creation is the ‘now what,’ the imperative that […]

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The Myth of Cognitive Agency |Thomas Metzinger

April 18, 2017by ||| 4 Comments

“The myth of cognitive agency: subpersonal thinking as a cyclically recurring loss of mental autonomy” |  Thomas Metzinger EXCERPTS: “[G]iven empirical constraints, most of what we call “conscious thought” is […]

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