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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

Anne Dufourmantelle | On Risking Life

July 26, 2017by dmf 3 Comments

Anne Dufourmantelle was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst whose work focused on risk taking. Anne believed risk was essential to meaningful human life and argued that ​​”absolute security – like ‘zero […]

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Dufourmantelle

Siri Hustvedt | The Idea of the Between

July 22, 2017by dmf 12 Comments

Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist, poet, and essayist – with six novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fictiont hat has been translated into over thirty languages.. Her […]

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Hustved

Weaponized Nihil

July 21, 2017by ||| 2 Comments

Two invigorating quotes from the diagnostician of the dark circus S.C Hickman: “[I]in our age of nihilism, there is the aesthetic as Nietzsche would advocate: the ability to stylize our […]

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Hickman, Nietzsche

Survival Economics & DIY Markets in post-crash Detroit.

July 21, 2017by ||| 2 Comments

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://soundcloud.com/this-is-hell/961valerievandepanne

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Adapted to a Symbolic Niche?

July 17, 2017by dmf 23 Comments

Terrence William Deacon (born 1950) is an American Neuroanthropologist (Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, Harvard University 1984). He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and […]

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Deacon

Foreclosure/Withdrawal?

July 14, 2017by Arran Crawford 3 Comments

The activist, whose phantom subject consciousness is defined by its vain wounds, collects injuries by throwing its body at a motionless objectivity, these are my chains, see how they chafe, this […]

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Lacan

The Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity

June 26, 2017by ||| 2 Comments

Hickman with another brilliant set of codes to disrupt the current matrix: “This distancing of world, subject, and object would form the basis of our current secular culture and civilization […]

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Mumford, Simondon, Stiegler

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