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On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene

January 7, 2015by ||| 11 Comments

On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene Adrian Ivakhiv Ontology is in; epistemology is out. The question is no longer how we know what we know, but […]

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Tim Morton talking prototypes

January 5, 2015by dmf Leave a comment

Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3) – Lithuania, etc, etc: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/philosophy-design-engineering-zooetics.html

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life beyond the end of pretending?

January 5, 2015by dmf 3 Comments

Seminar introducing John Foster’s new book ‘After Sustainability’ with discussion by Prof Jonathan Wolff, Philosophy, UCL, and Prof Albert Weale, Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL Summary: Dangerous climate change […]

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Speculative Futures: Shaviro, Galloway & Thacker

November 30, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“It’s a speculative accelerated realist bootleg throwdown! This episode features STEVEN SHAVIRO and ALEXANDER GALLOWAY discussing their recently published books THE UNIVERSE OF THINGS: ON SPECULATIVE REALISM and LARUELLE: AGAINST […]

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Shaviro, Thacker

Wisconsin Mining Standoff w/ Winona LaDuke

October 7, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“Have you heard about the Wisconsin Mining Standoff? The GTac mining proposal? What about the Enbridge pipeline expansion? guest host Rebecca Kemble was joined by Wisconsin’s 29th Senate District Candidate Paul DeMain, Harvard educated […]

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Pop Nihilism and The Dust Of This Planet

September 17, 2014by ||| 10 Comments

From RADIO LAB:  A conversation with Eugene Thacker on the truth, beauty and post-goodness of pessimism (nihilism?) Eugene Thacker is an author and associate professor at The New School in […]

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Transformation without Apocalypse (?) Rob Nixon

September 16, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Rob’s talk starts around 6:55 if like me you can do without the pipedreamer intro See also: Slow Violence and The Environmentalism of the Poor Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live […]

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Nixon

Vanishing World, Climate Refugees – Marianne Hougen-Moraga

September 15, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

See Also: http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/11/vanishing-world-climate-refugees/ heartbreaking

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Naomi Klein is half right…

September 14, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Here in this interview she rightly characterizes our escalating human-global-heating-mass-death as “an existential crisis for the human species, a clear and present danger to civilization, a death sentence for the […]

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Klein

On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology – Stanimir Panayotov

August 21, 2014by dmf 2 Comments

https://www.academia.edu/1255122/On_Guattaris_Planetary_Psychopathology Planetary psychopathology is a term used by Guattari in an Italian-published text from the early80s (Guatari 1984). Psychopathology is the science that studies the mental disorders of human beings. […]

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Berardi, Guattari

Process Ontology of Disaster Capitalism? Rosi Braidotti

August 6, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Rosi Braidotti is a philosopher and feminist theoretician who holds Italian and Australian citizenship – born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received degrees from the Australian […]

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Braidotti

Living in Ruins, Anna Tsing

June 5, 2014by dmf 4 Comments

PART ONE (OF 4) – go to YouTube for the rest   UC Santa Cruz anthropologist Anna Tsing is one of six international scholars to win a $5 million Niels Bohr Professorship […]

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Tsing

Designing the Apocalypse: On the Limits of Cartography

February 25, 2014by ||| 1 Comment

Originally posted on Unlimited Dream Company ('Despairing at last, I decided to die' -J.G. Ballard):
I was thinking of forwarding a comment to Adam Robbert’s post at knowledge-ecology.com (Earth’s Aesthetics: Knowledge…

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The Catastrophic and the Post-apocalyptic

August 21, 2013by Arran Crawford 5 Comments

The present is filled with catastrophe and apocalypticism. A certain phrase has been deployed and redeployed in summarising the condition we find ourselves in: it is easier to imagine the end […]

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Calder Williams, Crawford, Dupay, Morton, Ranciere, Uncategorized, Virilio, Williams, Zizek

John Caputo on speculative-realism(s), Latour, Zizek, and more.

July 15, 2013by ||| 3 Comments

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhs1J9t2Q8 Apocalyptic Politics: Framing the Present Apocalyptic Nihilism – John D. Caputo, author of Demythologizing Heidegger via http://terenceblake.wordpress.com/

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On Crisis (emergency and new heroism), Jan Verwoert

June 29, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Emergency? Of what kind, where, affecting who? In most recent global history, a number of monumental incidents of a political nature, many of which fall under a larger concept of […]

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Verwoert

Infrastructure, Infra-politics

June 24, 2013by ||| 8 Comments

Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]

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Foucault, Heidegger, Marx, Mitropoulos

An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene

June 18, 2013by dmf 4 Comments

In the video below Katherine Gibson (one half of the amazing JK Gibson-Graham feminist economic-geographer duo; unfortunately Julie Graham died in 2010) delivers a powerful and insightful plenary lecture entitled, […]

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K. Gibson, Latour, Rabinow

The possibility of hope: a short film about no future

June 13, 2013by Arran Crawford 2 Comments

The Possibility of Hope is a short 2007 documentary that accompanied the home release of the brilliant film Children of Men (a film that only becomes more pertinent) focussing on […]

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Gray, Klein, Lovelock, Sassen, Todorov, Zizek

The Age of Speed: Accelerationism, Politics, and the Future Present

May 27, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.…

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