“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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3) – Lithuania, etc, etc: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/philosophy-design-engineering-zooetics.html
So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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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…
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 […]
See Also: http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/11/vanishing-world-climate-refugees/ heartbreaking
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 […]
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. […]
