The Way Of The Violent Stars (excerpts)
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 […]
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 […]
The Benefits of Accepting the Possibility of Environmental Collapse and Human Extinction By John Bell British Professor of Sustainability Leadership, Jem Bendell, has recently published a thoughtful review of the […]
From Thomas Nail: The first image of black hole has just been released today. This is a profound and important aesthetic moment from a new materialist perspective. The image is […]
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 […]
here be a classic pdf up for grabs: Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance, Paul Rabinow Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director […]
Niki de Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, performance artist, painter, poster maker, writer, film-maker and feminist. A producer of voluptuous sculptures of female bodies that alternate between Goddess worship […]
“Nihilism stands like an extreme that cannot be gotten beyond, and yet it is the only true path of going beyond; it is the principle of a new beginning.” – […]
The Visible and the Invisible, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty The Visible and the Invisible (1964) contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. […]