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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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Andrew Pickering – Engaging Emergence: From Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movement

April 7, 2017by dmf 4 Comments

It’s come to my attention that this may have gotten buried in the powers of the horde here and that would be unfortunate as I think it is central to […]

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Schizoanalysis as Anthro-Ecology

May 31, 2015by edmundberger 25 Comments

WILD ECOLOGIES – Featured Post #3: Edmund Berger with an in-depth analysis of Guattari’s ‘ecosophy’ and possible points of connection, overlap and divergence from anarchist thought.   How does one begin to […]

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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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the ecological a priori?

January 22, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

[][[ CROSS-POSTED from Archive Fire ]][] Adam Robbert bringing the Foucault and Deleuze eco-style:  For Foucault, then, the nonhuman impresses itself onto anthropic space through the production of laws and […]

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Deleuze, Foucault

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

Madness and the Symbolic Order?

October 14, 2014by ||| 4 Comments

I disagree with Žižek on the radical distinctness of human subjectivity. I think sapience is an elaborated capacity of sentience, which is itself a capacity emerging from organic dispositionality viz. […]

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Zizek

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

Roden on the Posthuman & the Transhuman

August 7, 2014by ||| 3 Comments

An excellent and compact outline of some differences between posthumanism and transhumanism from David Roden here: Posthumanists may, but need not, claim that humans are becoming more intertwined with technology. They […]

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Roden

Process Ontology of Disaster Capitalism? Rosi Braidotti

August 6, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Rosi Braidotti is a philosopher and feminist theoretician who holds Italian and Australian citizenship – born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received degrees from the Australian […]

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Braidotti

the in-itself, together

February 12, 2014by ||| 11 Comments

To exercise one’s capacities to their fullest extent is to take pleasure in one’s own existence, and with sociable creatures, such pleasures are proportionally magnified when performed in company… It […]

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Ontology as Embodied Cognitive Action?

February 7, 2014by ||| 6 Comments

In the comment section of a previous post I made the following claim: I’m a little worried about making a strong distinction between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’. Knowing and communicating are also […]

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Rosenthal on Ontology, Pluralism and Pragmatism

February 4, 2014by ||| 4 Comments

Rosenthal, Sandra B. (2005) ‘The Ontological Grounding of Diversity: A Pragmatic Overview’ in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: The uprootedness of experience from its ontological embeddedness in a natural world […]

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Being, Background, Pluripolitics

January 28, 2014by ||| 29 Comments

 “We start from the One, rather than arriving at it. We start from the One, which is to say that if we go anywhere, it will be toward the World, […]

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Latour’s ‘What Is the Recommended Dose of Ontological Pluralism for a Safe Anthropological Diplomacy?’

January 28, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

In light of the recent ‘realism v. pluralism’ debates… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U1FbAMEpzQ http://anthem-group.net/2014/01/28/2013-gad-distinguished-lecture-bruno-latour/

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Latour

Nature Poetics and Ecological Praxis

September 20, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

With regards to my last post Jeremy at Struggles Forever has provided an important reminder: [T]he conception of Nature as a container, in my opinion, conveys the wrong message. Containers delimit and […]

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Derrida, Laruelle, Rorty, Wittgenstein

Ethics and Politics in the Anthropocene?

September 18, 2013by ||| 11 Comments

Much has been made lately of the claim that we have entered a new geologic epoch provocatively termed the ‘Anthropocene’. The gist of the claim is that humans have intervened […]

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Bryant, Morton

The Posthuman Predicament: Affect, Power and Ethics – Rosi Braidotti

July 18, 2013by dmf 4 Comments

Interesting talk on Spinoza vs Hegel, Zizek is a court-jester but certainly not an “idiot” and while I think he goes too far by projecting a kind of alienation into […]

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Braidotti

Ray Brassier – Nominalism, Naturalism and Materialism

July 9, 2013by dmf 7 Comments

Ray Brassier (b.1965) is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at […]

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Brandom, Brassier, Darwin, Sellars

Infrastructure, Infra-politics

June 24, 2013by ||| 8 Comments

Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]

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