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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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Black Hole Sun: On the Materialist Sublime

April 10, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Praxis for Lost Worlds?

January 25, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

The following excerpts are taken from Woodbine’s NOMOS OF THE EARTH (2014), and offers most of what we deem essential to the spirit of a post-nihilist praxis for deeply adapting and politicking in the […]

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Rojava: patchworking from the Real

January 17, 2019by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

The following builds on points made by Michael in “Global Wyrding and Deeply Adaptive Patchworking“: As long as humans have been gathering and cooperating in relatively stable sedentary complexes, issues […]

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The Visible and the Invisible (pdf)

March 10, 2017by ||| 3 Comments

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. […]

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The Question of Naturalistic Ethics: Sam Harris on Science and Morality

November 15, 2015by ||| 6 Comments

Below Sam Harris outlines and then discusses with Richard Dawkins his argument against Hume’s erroneous (IMO) notion that we cannot derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’ – what philosopher’s call the “naturalistic […]

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Guattari’s Eco-Logic

May 29, 2015by ||| 3 Comments

WILD ECOLOGIES – Featured post #2: Here Bill Rose summarizes and interprets Guattari’s ‘ecosophy’ as it is laid out in the book and elsewhere, on the way to a quasi-anarchic […]

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Bruno Latour | Ecologizing the Future

January 8, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

Notes towards an emancipatory ecologistics? * What would be required of us cognitively, technically, and practically in our attempts to alter our ways of existing for more adaptive modes? Bruno Latour, […]

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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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Jane Bennett on Anxiety, Whitman, Sympathy‏

January 4, 2015by dmf 4 Comments

So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…

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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

Dilip Gaonkar – Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude

October 6, 2014by ||| 1 Comment

AFTER THE FICTIONS: Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude By Dilip Gaonkar People do not riot every day, but they have rioted often enough in the past, especially since […]

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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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Bodily Natures – An Interview with Stacy Alaimo

September 16, 2014by ||| 6 Comments

From New Books in Critical Theory: In her book, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010), Stacy Alaimo approaches the concepts of “science, environment, and self” in an […]

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Alaimo

Machinism

September 16, 2014by dmf 9 Comments

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
In Onto-Cartography I propose a machine-oriented ontology.  “Machine” is a synonym for “entity”, “thing”, “object”, or “being”.  Machine-oriented ontology– or more simply, “machinism” –is the…

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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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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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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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