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How Many Have we Lost Due to Our Failure to Treat them as Comrades?

January 21, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

How Many Have we Lost Due to Our Failure to Treat them as Comrades? Hyphen_ “The thing that men and women need to do is stick together / Progressions can’t be […]

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Dean, Fisher, Spinoza

The Yellow Vests

December 27, 2018by Patrick jennings 42 Comments

The reaction by one of France’s “Yellow Vests” to Macron’s about face was as follows: “We have put Macron on one knee. Now he must fall.” This from a middle […]

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Hegel, Uncategorized

On Marx and Socialized Nature

November 27, 2018by Patrick jennings 2 Comments

I’d like to comment on Edmund Berger’s post on the “ecological” Marx which you can read here. The nub of the issue he raises is summarised in the following: This […]

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Berger, Marx

The Uses of Disaster

November 5, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

The article below is from the Out of the Woods collective, and a clear attempt to anticipate the ‘politics to come’ in the context of ongoing climate catastrophe. What I […]

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Out Of The Woods

Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

October 11, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

ARCHIPELAGO AND ATOMIC COMMUNITARIANISM by SCOTT ALEXANDER I. In the old days, you had your Culture, and that was that. Your Culture told you lots of stuff about what you […]

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Alexander

Deeply Adaptive Patchworking vs. Fully Automated Fantasy

September 29, 2018by Arran Crawford 9 Comments

Interest in patchwork is moving out beyond its capture in the Landian gravity-well and as it does attention is moving from the system to the object level. The people I’m […]

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Crawford

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

Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve | Debbie Bookchin

July 1, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

From ROAR Magazine – Issue #6 I am the daughter of two longtime municipalists. My mother, Beatrice Bookchin, ran for city council of Burlington, Vermont thirty years ago, in 1987, on an […]

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Bookchin, Uncategorized

City-state Survivalism

November 11, 2015by Arran Crawford 3 Comments

In terms of politics climate change trumps everything else. It should be our primary concern if we want to survive or live with any kind of comfort*. Therefore all design […]

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Srnicek, Uncategorized

the possibility of a left stoicism?

October 18, 2015by Arran Crawford 2 Comments

Salvage has a new article up that is being spread over FB. The article is by Alberto Toscano and focusses on the more or less forgotten Italian Marxist Franco Fortini. To continue […]

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Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism?

February 18, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism? Jodi Dean points us to: http://libcom.org/blog/whos-afraid-ruins-18022014 To speak of disaster communism is not to express a preference for a post-apocalyptic style. It is a […]

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Dean

‘Happiness is statistically abnormal’: happiness after nihilism

August 10, 2013by Arran Crawford 4 Comments

Happiness is a kind of madness Look around you. Examine the world you live in. Give it a cursory glance. How could you not conclude that happiness is a delusional […]

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politics, psychiatry

Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism – David Harvey

June 27, 2013by dmf 3 Comments

AUDIO: David Harvey ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ In this lecture drawing on his new ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ David Harvey will explore the way capital […]

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Harvey

Chomsky on the History of Socialism

May 29, 2013by ||| 1 Comment

Noam Chomsky responds to a caller’s request for his thoughts on socialism, during a 2003 interview by Brian Lamb, for C-SPAN’s “In Depth” program. He describes how socialism was equated […]

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Chomsky

Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution?

May 22, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

“They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian […]

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