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