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Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation

January 9, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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, […]

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Bendell

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

Posthumanist Performativity and How Matter Comes to Matter

December 6, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

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 […]

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Barad, Shaviro

Deep Adaptation: Navigating Climate Tragedy

October 4, 2018by ||| 31 Comments

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 […]

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Bendell

Xenogothic on Patchwork Subjectivities

October 1, 2018by ||| 11 Comments

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 […]

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Uncategorized, Xenogothic

Wittgenstein and The Limits of Thought

September 6, 2018by ||| 25 Comments

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 […]

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Wittgenstein

Livestream with Justin Murphy

August 26, 2018by ||| 4 Comments

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 […]

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Land, Murphy, Uncategorized

The Use and Abuse of Models

August 24, 2018by ||| 13 Comments

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… […]

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Berger, Deleuze, Xenogothic

From Transcendental Empiricism to Worker Nomadism

August 24, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Deleuze, Guattari, James

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

Interpassive User: Complicity and the Returns of Cybernetics

August 13, 2018by ||| 1 Comment

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 […]

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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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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

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

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

An Introduction to the Cybernetic Science Non-Fiction of Contemporary Geopolitics \ Mohammad Salemy

June 12, 2017by ||| 1 Comment

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. […]

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Deleuze, Land, Negarestani

Active Annihilation and the Suicidal Civilization

June 8, 2017by ||| 1 Comment

“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 […]

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Bataille, Baudrillard, Cioran, Hickman, Nietzsche

Andy Clark on Emotions, Cognition and the Predictive Mind

June 1, 2017by ||| 2 Comments

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 […]

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Clark

Elizabeth Grosz on Incorporeality, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism

May 31, 2017by ||| 3 Comments

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 […]

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Grosz

Lee Braver on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida

May 29, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Braver, Derrida, Heidegger, Wittgenstein

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