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chronotopes of truth: presence, evidence, latency

November 12, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

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 […]

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Gumbrecht, Heidegger

Structuralism and Ontology: An Anthropological Journey

November 7, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Descola

Morbid Interregnum

November 6, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

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 […]

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Fokiana, Fraser, Gramsci

Crisis + Habit = Update

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Chun

there is no outside

November 1, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“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..”

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Stuart Kauffman on Complexity & Catalytics and Evolution

October 29, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Kauffman

Concepts adequate to the times?

October 29, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Latour, Viveiros de Castro, wark

the residual dilemma

October 22, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

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 […]

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James

allergic to complicity

September 6, 2019by ||| 6 Comments

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 […]

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Deleuze

magnitudes of the end

September 6, 2019by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

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 […]

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the im/possibility of arrival

August 30, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

“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, […]

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Zizek

the work that Truth would do

August 21, 2019by ||| 14 Comments

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 […]

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provisionality and truth

July 9, 2019by ||| 8 Comments

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 […]

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Derrida

Exit/Sublime

May 1, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

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 […]

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Jennings, Land, Nail

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 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

Praxis for Lost Worlds?

January 25, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds

January 10, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

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 […]

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Darwin, Feynman, Freire, Hayhoe, Jameson, Marx, Woroniecki

The Horizon of the Absolute

January 8, 2019by Patrick jennings 2 Comments

  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 […]

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Badiou

Livestream with Justin Murphy

August 26, 2018by ||| 4 Comments

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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Land, Murphy, Uncategorized

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