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Leaked UN report lays bare catastrophic effects of planetary heating

June 24, 2021by ||| 5 Comments

Eighty million more to starve Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change analysis warns of collapse in food production. A leaked draft report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

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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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Paul Kingsnorth on Dark Ecology

October 9, 2020by ||| 7 Comments

Originally Published in Orion Magazine (2012): “Take the only tree that’s left,Stuff it up the hole in your culture.” —Leonard Cohen “Retreat to the desert, and fight.” —D. H. Lawrence […]

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Kaczynski, Kingsnorth

The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman

September 4, 2020by ||| 2 Comments

The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures after Property and Possession seeks to interrogate the relation between race, sexuality, and juridical and theological ideas of self-possession, often evidenced by the couplet of […]

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Moten

On the Roof: Cloud City

February 5, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

by Bruno Latour The word “network” has become a ubiquitous designation for technical infrastructures, social relations, geopolitics, mafias, and, of course, our new life online. But networks, in the way […]

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Latour, Saraceno, Sloterdijk, Whitehead

Climate Activism and The Davos Disease

January 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

As the economic “elites” gather to collude to maintain the extinction stack by undermining democracy and consolidating infrastructural power, many of us are preparing for a much different reckoning. The […]

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Bendell, Uncategorized

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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Edensor

Thinking Ecographically?

November 22, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

I’m currently reading through a jungle of papers as preparatory work for a possible PhD run (fucking crazy, right?) in my home disciple of anthropology. My focus has been on […]

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Latour, Viveiros de Castro, Young-Leslie

The Only Land There Is

November 21, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From the uber-normie publication The Atlantic: This Land Is the Only Land There Is Seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning. ROBINSON MEYER AUGUST 8, 2019 Climate change […]

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From Extinction: nine strategies for a left-hand exit

November 18, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“We must not be afraid of collapse. Another end is possible.” — Kanad Chakrabarti The following essay was first published on Noir Materialism. Uhall has important things to say about exit […]

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Uhall

on feral philosophy

November 13, 2019by ||| 7 Comments

Nostalgia overflows me as I write this… I’m remembering the free exchanges of half-baked ideas and irreverent attitudes that animated the theory “blogosphere” in the late 2000s—during the early days […]

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Bryant

Dispersed Vectors 1

November 7, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

For Gregory Bateson, it is a “pathology of epistemology” (1973) that causes us to overlook our connections to the broader environment, threatening the very existence of humanity and causing the […]

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Bateson, Dean, Deleuze, Guattari

Will We Care Enough to Matter to Them?

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Deep Adaptation is a thing. And a damn good thing. This from Professor Jem Bendell: Would you consider yourself middle class? Perhaps amongst the middle class in the West, or […]

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Bendell

Towards a Terran Resistance Front?

October 24, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

E-Flux‘s latest installment has a great piece by Sven Lütticken, ‘Toward a Terrestrial‘, riffing on communist history and its possible mutations towards a terrestrial politics. Latour’s theoretic attractor “The Terrestrial” […]

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Latour, Marx, Viveiros de Castro

Bendell’s Bristol Lecture on Deep Adaptation

May 26, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

This Jem Bendell’s lecture on Deep Adaptation, delivered in Bristol, UK, in Feb 2019. Bendell uses a more informal format, inviting the audience to explore forms of action additional to […]

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Bendell

Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (1973)

April 30, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning by Horst W., J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber Policy Sciences Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jun., 1973), pp. 155-169 Abstract: The search for scientific […]

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Rittel

The Secular Fanaticism of Indifference

April 9, 2019by ||| 28 Comments

“Maybe we need an indifferent politics, as well. A politics that no longer seeks to erase, exclude, and shame the opposition into hyperconformity. Without oppositional thinking, without contrarian thought we […]

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Cioran, Hickman

The Madhouse Effect

March 12, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

How climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy. This was recorded on Wednesday, March 06, 2019 at MIT: Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor […]

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Mann

Landscapes of Terminal Capitalism

March 12, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

“Aporias of Responsibility: Lifeworlds Inherited, Inhabited and Bequeathed” The ‘Anthropocene’ captures an emerging recognition, and interest in, the specificity of human geo-social formations; that is, the simultaneous operation of human-created […]

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Hird

Collapse of Complex Societies

February 25, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

In the video below anthropologist and historian Dr. Joseph Tainter, author of the classic study The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), details some of the factors which led to the collapse of […]

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