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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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Existenzial Inflections

October 7, 2020by ||| 3 Comments

From Simon O’Sullivan: “In relation to an explicit politics, this non-engagement with the affective complexities of life means accelerationism offers only a partial picture of the issues and problems at […]

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War Capitalism

March 24, 2020by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

Suddenly we are living under war capitalism. As in any war, people are dying. Nothing very meaningful can be said about that. One can look at the videos coming out […]

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Visualizing Alternatives to Carboniferous Capitalism

October 31, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

From Trudi Lynn Smith and James K. Rowe originally published on CTheory in 2017. … Pipelines as Sun Tunnels: Visualizing Alternatives to Carboniferous Capitalism Canada is home to the third […]

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How Many Have we Lost Due to Our Failure to Treat them as Comrades?

January 21, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

How Many Have we Lost Due to Our Failure to Treat them as Comrades? Hyphen_ “The thing that men and women need to do is stick together / Progressions can’t be […]

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Dean, Fisher, Spinoza

Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds

January 10, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds by Stephen Woroniecki Do you remember those childhood TV series where machines come and chew up the earth and the forest creatures […]

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Darwin, Feynman, Freire, Hayhoe, Jameson, Marx, Woroniecki

Accelerationism in a nutshell?

October 20, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

If you had to sum up the essence of Accelerationism in a nutshell, you could do worst than recommend somebody watch this: Sometimes, 5 minutes of audio visual composition, beats […]

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‘Capitalism and its Threats’ (2018) via Žižek

October 19, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

I’m not convinced Žižek is genuine in a lot of his critiques. Maybe he relishes in being a bit of a gadfly? I do, however, always come away from his […]

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Buddhist Futures: The Black Hole of Post-Capitalism 

August 10, 2018by ||| 6 Comments

In addition to the content itself, I think this piece by Shaun Bartone is a valuable example of how to approach the genre of buddhofiction. Approach, not arrive at. Let […]

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Technology as Fetish: Marx, Latour, and the Cultural Foundations of Capitalism

July 18, 2018by ||| 22 Comments

“The concept of time-space appropriation thus offers a way to define and even quantify asymmetric global flows of resources that are fundamental to the accumulation of physical capital.” ~ Alf […]

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Hornborg, Marx

U/Acc in Michael Cisco’s Animal Money | Jeremy Trombley

June 28, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

U/Acc in Michael Cisco’s Animal Money by Jeremy Trombley [[ originally posted at Struggle Forever! Feb 24, 2018 ]] Acceleration, in physics, is the rate of change in velocity with […]

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How to Be an Anticapitalist Today | Eric Wright

June 19, 2018by ||| 6 Comments

“Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.” For many people the idea of anticapitalism seems ridiculous. After all, capitalist firms have brought us […]

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Capital’s Art of War

April 24, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

Event Date: 6 April 2017 Chelsea Lecture Theatre University of the Arts London John Islip Street London, SW1P 4JU The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) presents: Professor […]

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The Anthropocene and the End of Postmodernism

April 2, 2017by edmundberger 34 Comments

In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard famously described the coming age of postmodernism as a the dissolution of grand narratives, that is, overarching schemes or horizons […]

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Hardt, Lyotard, Morton, Srnicek

How The Economic Machine Works

March 6, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

THE WALLSTREET LOONS IN CHARGE via How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio — Deterritorial Investigations Unit

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Southwest Corridor Northwest Passages: Critical Explorations of ‘Imperial Infrastructures’

December 14, 2014by edmundberger 4 Comments

The corridor is geo-infrastructural. The device is info-mechanical. The narrative is psycho-social. Narratives activate devices. Devices articulate corridors. The corridor is the diagram/spatial logic — the organization of the space. […]

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A Future That Doesn’t Work? Natalie Bennett & Nick Srnicek

September 20, 2014by dmf 3 Comments

“Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for […]

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Anarchism & Occupy Wall Street w/ Bray & Schneider

September 16, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“A presentation by authors Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street and Nathan Schneider Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.”

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A Brief History Neoliberalism (pdf) – David Harvey

August 7, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

http://www.sok.bz/web/media/video/ABriefHistoryNeoliberalism.pdf Neoliberalism – the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action – has become dominant in both thought […]

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Anti-depressive Politics

June 13, 2014by Arran Crawford 13 Comments

A new Prometheus need not take the form of the ‘Modern Prince’, the party, if the latter is regarded as a commanding height and centre supervenient on any other council, […]

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Bookchin, Cioran, Toscano, Zizek

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