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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Nostalgia overflows me as I write this post. I’m remembering the frenetic exchanges of half-baked ideas and irreverent attitudes that animated the theory-blogging (“blogosphere”) of the early days of what […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
The following report was published on Feb 12/2019 by the Institute for Public Policy Research. The conclusions are as clear as they are alarming. No one associated with policy or […]
