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Collapse Patchworks: A Theory

December 23, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Originally published on THE LIBERTARIAN IDEAL: Collapse Patchworks: A Theory by Chris Shaw The complexity of modern industrial, social and organisational flows presents the headlong perception of dromological speed[1]. As […]

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Shaw

Deterritorializing the Future?

December 18, 2020by ||| 3 Comments

“The era of climate change involves the mutation of systems beyond 20th century anthropomorphic models and has stood, until recently, outside representation or address. Understood in a broad and critical […]

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Colebrook

Resisting the Coming Barbarism

December 17, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Isabelle Stengers’ book, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism (2015), is available for free as a .pdf download here. Below is an official description of the book: There has […]

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Stengers

Anthropocene Hubris

November 30, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Anthropocene Hubris by Stephanie Wakefield source: E-FLUX Precarious Entanglement In the Anthropocene—the current terminal period of neoliberal capitalism marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and social-political unraveling—calls to rethink human […]

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Wakefield

Kim Stanley Robinson, THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE

November 10, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Philosopher and cultural critic Steven Shaviro reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s new book: “The Ministry for the Future (2020) is dedicated to Fredric Jameson, and it offers an elegant and effective […]

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Robinson

The Collapse of Change: A View from the Future

October 24, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

The ship’s log of Novo Potosi is an exploration of the future looking backward to recent Latin American history. Almost like an anthropology of the future, Potosi explores a dystopian […]

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A field guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction

October 22, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. Its scale defies comprehension, and conceals its true nature – not as one gigantic issue, but as many. In order […]

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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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China Miéville: Limits of Utopia

October 20, 2020by dmf 1 Comment

China Miéville, award-winning science fiction author and associate professor of creative writing at Warwick University in England, speaks on “the limits of utopia,” exploring links between environmentalism and social justice […]

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Mieville

Will We Care Enough to Matter to Them?

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Deep Adaptation is a thing. And a damn good thing. This from Professor Jem Bendell: Would you consider yourself middle class? Perhaps amongst the middle class in the West, or […]

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Bendell

magnitudes of the end

September 6, 2019by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Sometimes you come across something and think: fuck, I wish I’d written that. Well… Our starting point is clear. This is the end of a world, and if we are […]

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Under the Sign of Erasure

May 24, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet:
Capitalist realism is about a corrosion of social imagination, and in some ways, that remains the problem: after thirty years of neoliberal…

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Fisher, Hickman

The Upside of Accepting Collapse?

April 15, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

The Benefits of Accepting the Possibility of Environmental Collapse and Human Extinction By John Bell British Professor of Sustainability Leadership, Jem Bendell, has recently published a thoughtful review of the […]

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Bendell

Climate Change as Ecological Colonialism

April 9, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Abstract: Climate change is a consequence of a clash between deregulated capitalism and the welfare of mankind deeply entrenched in a capitalist economic system based upon the persistent exploitation of […]

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Collapse of Complex Societies

February 25, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

In the video below anthropologist and historian Dr. Joseph Tainter, author of the classic study The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), details some of the factors which led to the collapse of […]

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Tainter

Facing Breakdown

February 19, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

The following report was published on Feb 12/2019 by the Institute for Public Policy Research. The conclusions are as clear as they are alarming. No one associated with policy or […]

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Accelerating increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – On the way to 10°C?

January 25, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Devastating new research released today indicating we may already be heading for 10°C increase in temperature above pre-industrial levels. This would entail a complete breakdown of the biosphere and the […]

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Bendell

Praxis for Lost Worlds?

January 25, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

The following excerpts are taken from Woodbine’s NOMOS OF THE EARTH (2014), and offers most of what we deem essential to the spirit of a post-nihilist praxis for deeply adapting and politicking in the […]

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Deep Adaptation Primer

January 23, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

This is post functions as a constantly evolving primer for most things related to Deep Adaptation – an intellectual and pragmatic framework proposed by Dr. Jem Bendell in his July 2018 paper, […]

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The Prescient Pessimism of Octavia Butler

January 17, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

// republished from LOST FUTURES // In the 2020s and ‘30s, fire ravages California towns. Migrant caravans make their way on foot towards the closed border of Oregon. A new […]

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