Praxis for Lost Worlds?
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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A Deep Adaptation Primer
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, […]
The Prescient Pessimism of Octavia Butler
// 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 […]
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, […]
October WYRDPATCH WORKSHOP
The folks at Diffractions Collective in Prague, in collaboration with a few other groups, are hosting a second Wyrd/Patchworkshop on October 26, 2018, at 5:30pm in the U.K (9:30am Mountain […]
“Action relies on courage, not hope.”
From October 9, 2018 The New Republic: The Case for Climate Pessimism By EMILY ATKIN Some climate change activists oppose doom-and-gloom rhetoric. They know that, if we don’t reduce greenhouse gas […]
Civilisation Retreats, Wildness Persists
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to resurgent theorytwitter buzz for the essay. Read the original in full: here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** […]
‘Capitalism and its Threats’ (2018) via Žižek
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 […]
African Roads to Anarchy
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to resurgent theorytwitter buzz for the essay. Read the original in full: here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** […]
desert storms
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
it’s later than we thought
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
Catastrophe, Collapse, Apology: words missing from the IPCC report
“Over past decades those who think things are worse than what the IPCC were saying have been proved right. If that holds true now, then its time more of us […]
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 […]
Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasure in Posthuman Times
Stacy Alaimo’s Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) is a provocative reflection on environmental ethics, politics, and forms of knowledge. Through a range of examples […]
Survival Economics & DIY Markets in post-crash Detroit.
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
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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 […]
toward an encourageMental-manipulation
Dogen Zenji Dogen relates the words of an old Zen master: “Formerly I used to hit sleeping monks so hard that my fist just about broke. Now I am old […]
dismantling the future: lunatic riffs on extinction engineering
Just finished my first pass of the first chapter of Inventing the Future. Its pretty familiar but still quite dense for that. One of the lurking monsters beneath the chapter […]
Unknowing in the Wild
Survival, in the sense Desert suggests it to me, is something completely different, for in it any social group or kin network, as it attempts to live on, cannot draw significant […]
scientists mourning our planet @DahrJamail
“I have been vacillating between depression and acceptance of where we are, both as victims – fragile human beings – and as perpetrators: We are the species responsible for altering […]
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