Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation
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, […]
Tag Archives: cognition
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 […]
Posthumanist Performativity and How Matter Comes to Matter
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter by Karen Barad “Where did we ever get the strange idea that nature—as opposed to culture—is ahistorical and timeless? We […]
Deep Adaptation: Navigating Climate Tragedy
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 […]
Xenogothic on Patchwork Subjectivities
I couldn’t be more stoked about Arran’s spectacular return to blogging on this website. His contributions, already, are catalyzing several important lines of thought and will only improve and intensify […]
Wittgenstein and The Limits of Thought
Theory Thursdays anyone? Below is an introduction to the life, work, and legacy of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. There is little doubt that he was a towering figure of the […]
Livestream with Justin Murphy
Below is video from a livestream chat I did with Justin Murphy on August 18, 2018. Justin is Lecturer in Governance and Policy within Politics & International Relations at the […]
The Use and Abuse of Models (1)
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… […]
From Transcendental Empiricism to Worker Nomadism
From Transcendental Empiricism to Worker Nomadism: William James by David Lapoujade William James calls himself a radical empiricist. His philosophy is not, as it is widely believed, pragmatism, but rather […]
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 […]
Interpassive User: Complicity and the Returns of Cybernetics
Interpassive User: Complicity and the Returns of Cybernetics – Svitlana Matviyenko – Abstract: This essay discusses the notions of “extension” and “prosthesis” as two different logics and modes of being […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
An Introduction to the Cybernetic Science Non-Fiction of Contemporary Geopolitics \ Mohammad Salemy
Mohammad Salemy: This text is an experiment with a speculative form which is neither as “objective” as science, nor as subjective as science-fiction. ‘Science non-fiction’ is not just a neologism. […]
Active Annihilation and the Suicidal Civilization
“Nihilism is the first step in an active annihilation not of reality, but of the human illusions of reality; and of humanity itself as a primal illusion, one that must […]
Andy Clark on Emotions, Cognition and the Predictive Mind
Andy Clark is a professor of philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. “To unravel the workings of these embodied, embedded, and sometimes […]
Elizabeth Grosz on Incorporeality, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism
Published May 22, 2017 in Theory Culture & Society: HERE VIKKI BELL: Many congratulations on the publication of your new book The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism […]
Lee Braver on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida
Derrida is an extremely rigorous thinker and an extremely thorough reader. He reads texts incredibly closely, more so than anyone else I’ve ever encountered, paying attention to everything on the […]
