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Nefarious Agents: Elliot Abrams

April 16, 2019by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

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 […]

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The Upside of Accepting Collapse?

April 15, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

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 […]

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Bendell

Requiem for the Abyss

April 10, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cioran, Hickman

Dead Subjects: On Heretical Defiance and Fabricated Philosophy

April 1, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings

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Brassier, Deleuze, Kolozova, Land, Laruelle, Marx, Uncategorized

Patchwork as Real World Vectors

March 26, 2019by ||| 4 Comments

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. […]

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Landscapes of Terminal Capitalism

March 12, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

“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 […]

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Mad Speculations of Becoming

March 7, 2019by ||| 5 Comments

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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Bataille, Bennett, Deleuze, Gratton, Woodard

To Destitute The World?

March 5, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

“there are worlds to be made, forms of life made to grow apart from what reigns, including by salvaging what can be salvaged from the present state of things, and on the other, there is the imperative to attack, to simply destroy the world of capital.”

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Deleuze, Marx, Uncategorized

Introducing Ecobehavioral Design

January 24, 2019by ||| 4 Comments

Introducing Ecobehavioral Design by Mark James, PhD(c) Behavior change can be bewilderingly difficult to achieve, and just trying can quickly become the work of the weary. However, I submit, much […]

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Death of the Thinker

December 7, 2018by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

Can thought be put in danger? I recently had the experience of encountering that old bogeyman of dogmatic thought while reading a text by someone whose writing I had gotten […]

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Laruelle

The ‘Problem’ of Thinking?

August 20, 2018by ||| 1 Comment

The intermingling influence of both American pragmatism and French philosophy on my intellectual interests and cognitive style remains strong. In this short paper, Rabinow does a great job of explicating […]

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Dewey, Foucault, Rabinow, Uncategorized

Worlding with the Body

July 7, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

In this episode of AnthroPod we return again to the annual American Anthropological Association meeting, held in Chicago in November 2013. Showcasing the Society for Cultural Anthropology sponsored panel entitled […]

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J.K. Gibson-Graham, ‘Take Back the Economy’ | Oliver Mispelhorn

July 4, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

from PROGRESS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY: I first became aware of the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham a few years ago, when a friend recommended that I read their seminal work The End […]

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Gibson-Graham, Uncategorized

ŠUM#9 interview with R. Scott Bakker

June 26, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

There comes a time when “theory” just stops working. The one thing that was once seen (and used) as a weapon against the crushing stupidity of common sense (or ideology, […]

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Bakker, Uncategorized

Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance (Paul Rabinow)

October 3, 2017by dmf 4 Comments

here be a classic pdf up for grabs: Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance, Paul Rabinow Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director […]

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Rabinow

“Is reality itself.. impenetrable?” – Afterthoughts on Žižek/Harman debate

September 18, 2017by ||| 1 Comment

SCI-Arc invites you to take a closer look at a debate between two philosophers with a particular influence on art and culture. What about this event should interest an artist, […]

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Harman, Zizek

Posthumanism for the Wounded, the Unknowing & the Dependent

September 6, 2017by dmf 1 Comment

Abstract: ‘We don’t live in a post-facts world, nor should we want to. Human beings need to be recognised, in their states of precarity and oppression, as being human before […]

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Anthony Stavrianakis | No Nature, No Consolation

August 12, 2017by dmf 2 Comments

“Kant’s anthropology’s was pragmatic. It was however also, resolutely modern. The question for us might then be: what is the ratio or proportionality between a modern pragmatic anthropology, and one […]

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Stavrianakis

Babette Babich | Life is a Test: On Ivan Illich

August 12, 2017by dmf 2 Comments

Below American philosopher Babette Babich talks about Ivan Illich’s political philosophy of being human. Babich is known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for […]

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Babich, Illich

The Collapse of Modern Hope

August 4, 2017by dmf 2 Comments

“[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 […]

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Berardi, Guattari

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