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Preparing for the end of the world as we know it

September 24, 2020by ||| 5 Comments

From the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is a collective of researchers, artists, educators, activists and Indigenous knowledge keepers from the Global North and South. […]

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Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordances

September 24, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordancesby Manuel Heras-Escribano (June 2020) Affordances, or the possibilities for acting in our environments, are pervasive in everyday life. We are constantly surrounded by them: […]

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Baudrillard & Fatal Strategies

August 26, 2020by ||| 7 Comments

This video is 8th in the 8-part video lecture series, The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1993). I. The task of creating a life with the “self […]

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Baudrillard

deep adaptation as post-nihilist praxis?

July 2, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

There is a long line of thinking and writing that frames ideological negation as emancipatory, or as an advancement of cognitive ability towards a more fluid interpretation of experience that, […]

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Bendell

Philosophy’s Abasement

March 19, 2020by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

Can we think an earth and a human such that they would be only what they are—nothing but earth and human — and such that they would be none of […]

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Laruelle, Nancy, Nietzsche

Badiou’s truth and the fate of bodies

March 2, 2020by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

In a recent post over at “Agent Swarm” Terrance Blake linked to a translation by Timothy Lavenz of a section of Badiou’s “Immanence of Truths”. The piece set me thinking […]

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PINTHW: Philosophy-in-the-wild

January 27, 2020by ||| 4 Comments

[[ from BOGNA KONIOR & YVETTE GRANATA ]]  Philosophy-in-the-wild is an ongoing, collaborative, multimedia and multi-platform non-philosophy project, devoted to re-wilding philosophy beyond its institutional (decisionist, androcentric etc) limitations. Conceptually, […]

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Granata, Konior

Thinking Marx Through Harvey

January 23, 2020by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

  I like David Harvey. I “liked” the video of his Amsterdam talk, even before I listened to it. I liked it mostly out of an habitual attraction to anything […]

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Harvey, Laruelle, Marx

Modeling Wicked Problems

January 21, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Most Anthropocene concerns are “wicked problems,” complex problems that defy a single answer and may never be solved definitively. They involve highly complicated systems that are impossible to fully know, […]

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doing without knowledge

January 16, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

That ‘knowledge is power’ is rarely disputed by anyone. Literacy has established linguistic semiotics as a dominant coping-capacity and mediator of perception that allows us to plan, control and manipulate […]

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a strange melange

January 14, 2020by Patrick jennings 5 Comments

Science will not save us. Not even systems science. What systems science above all reveals about ourselves and the world is that both self and world are wholly unsavable, precisely […]

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Feyerabend, Laruelle

Melancholy of Resistance (pdf)

November 27, 2019by ||| 5 Comments

“Catastrophe! Of course! Last judgement! Horseshit! It’s you that are the catastrophe, you’re the bloody last judgement, your feet don’t even touch the ground, you bunch of sleepwalkers.” ― László […]

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Krasznahorkai

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

‘for its apotheosis will be the final catastrophe’

November 21, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

embrace negation || unleash creation “ Protest only serves as the prenatal expression of an attitude that must still give birth to direct action. In order to create new possibilities, […]

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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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Into a Silent Universe

November 18, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“The world is increasingly unthinkable – a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction.” – Eugene Thacker (2011) […]

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Ballard, Colebrook, Deleuze, Fisher, Marks, Thacker

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

Critchley‏ on Active Nihilism

November 15, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“Nihilism is the obvious response to the death of God, by which we mean the collapse of any transcendent basis for morality, the collapse of the value of everything. Just […]

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Critchley

Fanged Noumena | pdf

November 14, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

The cyberpositive zero indexes a threshold of phase-transition that is immanent to the system. Download #1 – PDF  Download #2 – PDF “Drives are the functions of nomadic cybernetic systems, […]

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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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