Death of the Thinker
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 […]
Tag Archives: agency
The ‘Problem’ of Thinking?
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 […]
Worlding with the Body
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 […]
J.K. Gibson-Graham, ‘Take Back the Economy’ | Oliver Mispelhorn
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 […]
ŠUM#9 interview with R. Scott Bakker
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, […]
Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance (Paul Rabinow)
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 […]
“Is reality itself.. impenetrable?” – Afterthoughts on Žižek/Harman debate
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, […]
Posthumanism for the Wounded, the Unknowing & the Dependent
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 […]
Anthony Stavrianakis | No Nature, No Consolation
“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 […]
Babette Babich | Life is a Test: On Ivan Illich
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 […]
The Collapse of Modern Hope
“[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 […]
Anne Dufourmantelle | On Risking Life
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 […]
Siri Hustvedt | The Idea of the Between
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 […]
Weaponized Nihil
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 […]
Survival Economics & DIY Markets in post-crash Detroit.
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Adapted to a Symbolic Niche?
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 […]
Foreclosure/Withdrawal?
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 […]
The Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity
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 […]
Acceleration, Ubiquity & Radical Disjunctures
Terry Smith is an Australian art historian, art critic and artist who currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, New York and Sydney. Since 2001 he has been Andrew W. Mellon […]
Unconditional Subtraction
Fuck acceleration. If the process accelerates it accelerates. It doesn’t need or want your complicity or your fantasies or collaboration. If you accelerate you accelerate. If you don’t you don’t. […]
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