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How to Deal with Cosmoecological Perplexities

January 27, 2023by ||| Leave a comment

Introduction In 2020, I got hold of the slim Artscience (2021) by the Malaysian physicist turned writer and speculative designer Clarissa Lee. Subtitled A Curious Education, the unusual format brings together reflections on […]

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SYMBIOTIC SKINS, METABOLIC SCHEMA

October 12, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

by Ally Bisshop When Johann von Goethe wrote his 1790 treatise on the metamorphosis of plants,[1] he invited us to read in the form of a plant the signs of […]

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The Infinite Sales Bay of the Universe

October 4, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

An essay by philosopher Amy Ireland. Text source here. Originally published in the exhibition catalogue for Andre Škufca’s Black Market, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, 2020. “You’re absolutely right. […]

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Being In An Environment: a performative perspective

October 4, 2021by ||| 1 Comment

This paper by Andrew Pickering is a revised version of a talk given at Oxford University, February 2, 2012, as part of a series of Linacre Lectures on “Environmental Governance […]

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Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution

September 28, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

From the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories, August 29th, 2021. Published in Ill Will: Preface For four years, the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories […]

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Wild Things: A Conversation with Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett

September 3, 2021by ||| 6 Comments

Below Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett meet in a vibratory encounter designed not to explain or judge but to dilate, to influence, and to disorder. They speak of desire and […]

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Geokinetics and the Metastable Eaarth

April 23, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

“Geokinetics has three aspects: the flow of matter, the fold of elements, and the circulation of planetary fields.”

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The Way Of The Violent Stars (excerpts)

January 12, 2021by ||| 5 Comments

To be clear, I would never identify as an “anarcho-primitivist,” but there is much in the discourses and methods of those who do, and who have contributed greatly to ecological […]

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Staying with the Trouble: Haraway on Multispecies Cosmopolitics

November 27, 2020by dmf 3 Comments

“After centuries of genocides, environmental destruction and its unevenly distributed suffering… Haraway suggests that humans turn to SF – string figures, science fiction, speculative fabulation, speculative feminism – as mechanisms for envisioning the future.”

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Haraway

Pandaemic Speculations: A Multilogue

November 23, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

From AGOSTO FOUNDATION: 1. In what way does the current COVID-19 epidemic restructure the relationship between domesticity and wilderness? Borbála Soós: A virus is not strictly speaking alive, however it cannot grow or […]

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Bill Rees on Avoiding Ecological Collapse

August 28, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Dr. Bill Rees coined the term “Ecological Footprint”, and has gained considerable respect in the field of ecology over a long career. Which is to say he is not a […]

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Rees

Badiou’s truth and the fate of bodies

March 2, 2020by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

In a recent post over at “Agent Swarm” Terrance Blake linked to a translation by Timothy Lavenz of a section of Badiou’s “Immanence of Truths”. The piece set me thinking […]

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Time, Thought, Critique

February 25, 2020by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

Imagine the following scenario. In thirty years time (it might be sooner) whatever portion of the globe you reside on has succumbed to any or all of the disasters climate […]

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materialism, posthumanism and the climate policy assemblage

February 4, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Re-assembling climate change policy: materialism, posthumanism and the policy assemblage Nick J Fox & Pam Alldred Abstract: National and international policy-makers have addressed threats to environmental sustainability from climate change […]

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Fox

Strength and Conditioning Guide for Insurgents

January 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

From the rad beauties at INHABIT: From Chile to Beirut, from Paris to New York, we experience the insane demands placed on us by this world in the most intimate […]

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doing without knowledge

January 16, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

That ‘knowledge is power’ is rarely disputed by anyone. Literacy has established linguistic semiotics as a dominant coping-capacity and mediator of perception that allows us to plan, control and manipulate […]

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Framing the End of the Species

January 10, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

The Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Volume One (2014) by Claire Colebrook From the Introduction: There are three senses of extinction: the now widely discussed sixth great extinction […]

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Societies Evolve

January 2, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

This introductory note from Philosophical Transactions brought together papers presented at a Discussion Meeting in January 2009 where 15 scientists were invited to review important issues relevant to our understanding […]

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Endless Maintenance: Restoring and Stabilizing Material Worlds

December 13, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction of meaning and also admits into […]

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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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