chronotopes of truth: presence, evidence, latency
In this wide-ranging talk (given on April 8, 2014, as part of the Spring 2014 Shulman Lecture Series in Science and the Humanities at the Whitney Humanities Center) Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht […]
Tag Archives: episteme
Structuralism and Ontology: An Anthropological Journey
Below is a lecture by Philippe Descola hosted by the Department of History and Civilization, at the European University Institute, and organised in collaboration with the Collège de France and […]
Morbid Interregnum
In his Prison Notebooks (1930), Antonio Gramsci famously wrote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a […]
Crisis + Habit = Update
INFRA-STRUCTURE is Politics. ‘New media’—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. But what do we miss […]
there is no outside
“All the theories of physics we have, in one way or another, apply only to subsystems of the universe. They don’t apply to the universe as a whole..”
Stuart Kauffman on Complexity & Catalytics and Evolution
Professor, MacArthur Fellow and author Stuart Kauffman talks with Jim Rutt about the major themes of his career: complexity, auto-catalytic chemical sets, protocells and the origins of life, the problem […]
Concepts adequate to the times?
From beautiful mind of Mckenzie Wark: Now that the world most of us have known is ending, it might be time to pay more attention to the experience of those […]
the residual dilemma
To celebrate that which came after Henri Bergson ushering William James out of the delusion of rationalism: Let us leave out the soul, then, and confront what I just called […]
allergic to complicity
Andrew Culp thinks D&G would be anti-accelerationists (especially re: capitalism), and against assisting the opposition in any way. Perverts take notice: Deleuze and Guattari are less used than abused in the […]
magnitudes of the end
Sometimes you come across something and think: fuck, I wish I’d written that. Well… Our starting point is clear. This is the end of a world, and if we are […]
the im/possibility of arrival
“The fantastic, then, pushes towards an area of non-signification. It does this either by attempting to articulate ‘the unnameable’, the ‘nameless things’ of horror fiction, attempting to visualize the unseen, […]
the work that Truth would do
i dig this. basically a succinct bit on post-nihilist orientation from rando Twitter human @iguesssoidk: Lets call nihilism the disbelief in mind-external meaning. The idea is that you will never […]
provisionality and truth
All hedged betting has been halted. We are too damned busy with flesh tactics to type electric words into fabricated scripts. Expect mostly strategic delirium and fragments from here on […]
Exit/Sublime
A black hole. Not even light can escape. No sooner has light of a sort escaped, though (an image of the event horizon) then already it’s actual incomprehensibility is subsumed […]
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (1973)
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 […]
The Madhouse Effect
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 […]
Praxis for Lost Worlds?
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 […]
Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds
Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds by Stephen Woroniecki Do you remember those childhood TV series where machines come and chew up the earth and the forest creatures […]
The Horizon of the Absolute
What has mathematics to do with politics; and, by default, with our survival as a species, given the apparently unstoppable acceleration of capitalism, the collapse of a realistic left […]
Livestream with Justin Murphy
Below is video from a livestream chat I did with Justin Murphy on August 18, 2018. Justin is Lecturer in Governance and Policy within Politics & International Relations at the […]
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