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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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The Upside of Accepting Collapse?

April 15, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

The Benefits of Accepting the Possibility of Environmental Collapse and Human Extinction By John Bell British Professor of Sustainability Leadership, Jem Bendell, has recently published a thoughtful review of the […]

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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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Elizabeth Grosz on Incorporeality, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism

May 31, 2017by ||| 3 Comments

Published May 22, 2017 in Theory Culture & Society: HERE VIKKI BELL: Many congratulations on the publication of your new book The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism […]

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Bruno Latour | Ecologizing the Future

January 8, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

Notes towards an emancipatory ecologistics? * What would be required of us cognitively, technically, and practically in our attempts to alter our ways of existing for more adaptive modes? Bruno Latour, […]

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Elizabeth Grosz on the appeal of Stoicism

January 7, 2015by Arran Crawford 4 Comments

From “Ontogenesis and the Ethics of Becoming“: KY: In terms of the Stoics, how might their approach to “dying well” offer us some resources for thinking amidst our current scene […]

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Camus, Grosz, Nietzsche

Tim Morton talking prototypes

January 5, 2015by dmf Leave a comment

Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3) – Lithuania, etc, etc: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/philosophy-design-engineering-zooetics.html

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life beyond the end of pretending?

January 5, 2015by dmf 3 Comments

Seminar introducing John Foster’s new book ‘After Sustainability’ with discussion by Prof Jonathan Wolff, Philosophy, UCL, and Prof Albert Weale, Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL Summary: Dangerous climate change […]

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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

Why Should We Read Spinoza?

November 13, 2014by Linnewho 1 Comment

by Susan James Published on 8 Nov 2014 During the twentieth century, Spinoza was allotted a minor role in Anglophone histories of philosophy. Dwarfed by Descartes, Hobbes, Locke and Leibniz, […]

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Abolish Columbus Day – Gregg Deal

October 7, 2014by dmf 2 Comments

http://greggdeal.com/ABOLISHCOLUMBUSDAY http://decolonization.org

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Lost Worlds

September 20, 2014by ||| 6 Comments

A (non)credo for post-nihilist praxis from WOODBINE (excerpts): Every vision of the future is one of catastrophe, of climate apocalypse or zombie hordes, of the digitalization of all life or […]

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Anarchism & Occupy Wall Street w/ Bray & Schneider

September 16, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“A presentation by authors Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street and Nathan Schneider Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.”

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Transformation without Apocalypse (?) Rob Nixon

September 16, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Rob’s talk starts around 6:55 if like me you can do without the pipedreamer intro See also: Slow Violence and The Environmentalism of the Poor Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live […]

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Nixon

Vanishing World, Climate Refugees – Marianne Hougen-Moraga

September 15, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

See Also: http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/11/vanishing-world-climate-refugees/ heartbreaking

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On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology – Stanimir Panayotov

August 21, 2014by dmf 2 Comments

https://www.academia.edu/1255122/On_Guattaris_Planetary_Psychopathology Planetary psychopathology is a term used by Guattari in an Italian-published text from the early80s (Guatari 1984). Psychopathology is the science that studies the mental disorders of human beings. […]

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Berardi, Guattari

The Last Night (pdf) – Federico Campagna

July 31, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labor superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains […]

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Living in Ruins, Anna Tsing

June 5, 2014by dmf 4 Comments

PART ONE (OF 4) – go to YouTube for the rest   UC Santa Cruz anthropologist Anna Tsing is one of six international scholars to win a $5 million Niels Bohr Professorship […]

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Vibrant Matter & the Political Economy of Life

March 6, 2014by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCaku4N0SM http://www.thomaslemkeweb.de/biografie-engl.htm

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Bennett, Foucault

Agonism, Pluralism, and Contemporary Capitalism

February 25, 2014by ||| 4 Comments

An Interview with William E. Connolly William E. Connolly is a political theorist known for his work on democracy and pluralism and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins […]

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