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Experimental Procedures for New Ontologies

December 19, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From Tom Kayzel & Sigmund Bruno Schilpzand. Review essay of: Bruno Latour (ed.), Reset Modernity (2016). Cambridge: MIT Press, 560 pp. In 2013, French philosopher Bruno Latour baffled his growing audience with the […]

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Descola, Harman, Heidegger, Latour, Lovelock, Margulis, Moore, Nietzsche, Sloterdijk

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

Facing Breakdown

February 19, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

The following report was published on Feb 12/2019 by the Institute for Public Policy Research. The conclusions are as clear as they are alarming. No one associated with policy or […]

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Promethean and Posthuman Improvisation and Time

February 7, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

Dr David Roden has worked for the Open University as a lecturer and associate lecturer. His published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the […]

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Brassier, Roden

Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation

January 9, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

SOURCE: Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation “People need hope, Jem.” “It’s really important to have a vision of a better future, […]

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Being in the World (film)

November 23, 2018by ||| 4 Comments

Being in the World is a 2010 documentary film directed by Tao Ruspoli. The film is based on Martin Heidegger’s philosophy and is inspired by Hubert Dreyfus. It features a […]

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Dreyfus, Heidegger

Struggle Without Fear

October 8, 2018by Patrick jennings 7 Comments

Struggle Without Fear by Patrick Jennings 1. This text came about as a comment on Arran’s post “The Ko’an of Extinction”. It is not a critique as much as a […]

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Crawford, Jennings

The Spectre of Patchwork

September 27, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

A spectre is haunting #CaveTwitter — the spectre of patchwork. […] Xenogothic is animating the conversation about patchwork in important ways lately, and I usually find nothing to complain about […]

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Xenogothic

Politics Down To Earth

September 16, 2018by ||| 10 Comments

“Right and Left have ceased to function today because they have failed to specify the material framework through which to differentiate themselves from each other. Ecological change obliges us to […]

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Latour

Worlding with the Body

July 7, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

In this episode of AnthroPod we return again to the annual American Anthropological Association meeting, held in Chicago in November 2013. Showcasing the Society for Cultural Anthropology sponsored panel entitled […]

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ŠUM#9 interview with R. Scott Bakker

June 26, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

There comes a time when “theory” just stops working. The one thing that was once seen (and used) as a weapon against the crushing stupidity of common sense (or ideology, […]

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Bakker, Uncategorized

The Collapse of Modern Hope

August 4, 2017by dmf 2 Comments

“[H]istoricist thinking and militant practice refuse to consider depression as a cognitive element, and this is a limit, one that today, for example, prevents us from being lucid about understanding […]

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Berardi, Guattari

Weaponized Nihil

July 21, 2017by ||| 2 Comments

Two invigorating quotes from the diagnostician of the dark circus S.C Hickman: “[I]in our age of nihilism, there is the aesthetic as Nietzsche would advocate: the ability to stylize our […]

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Hickman, Nietzsche

Manuel DeLanda | A Comparison of Deleuze’s Assemblage Theory and the New Materialist Approach

July 4, 2017by ||| 7 Comments

Originally published on Jun 19, 2017, as video from the Assemblage Thinking Symposium 2017, at the University of the Aegean. ABSTRACT: This lecture will discuss the fundamental concepts of the theory […]

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DeLanda, Deleuze, Guattari, Uncategorized

The Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity

June 26, 2017by ||| 2 Comments

Hickman with another brilliant set of codes to disrupt the current matrix: “This distancing of world, subject, and object would form the basis of our current secular culture and civilization […]

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Mumford, Simondon, Stiegler

‘The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ – An Interview with Nick Land

June 19, 2017by ||| 18 Comments

‘The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ Interview with Nick Land  by Marko Bauer and Andrej Tomažin In your 2014 book Templexity: Disordered Loops through Shanghai Time you write: […]

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Badiou, Ireland, Land

Active Annihilation and the Suicidal Civilization

June 8, 2017by ||| 1 Comment

“Nihilism is the first step in an active annihilation not of reality, but of the human illusions of reality; and of humanity itself as a primal illusion, one that must […]

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Bataille, Baudrillard, Cioran, Hickman, Nietzsche

Adam Robbert on Merleau-Ponty

May 29, 2017by ||| 1 Comment

Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
In my last few posts, I’ve been working my way through the ideas set down by the late great Hubert Dreyfus. While I end up disagreeing…

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Merleau-Ponty

Quick & Dirty Intro to Accelerationism

May 27, 2017by ||| Leave a comment
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Surviving Post-Capitalism? Coping, hoping, doping & shopping

March 6, 2017by ||| Leave a comment

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20170209_12536.mp3 Wolfgang Streeck discussing How Will Capitalism End? via Surviving Post-Capitalism? Coping, hoping, doping & shopping — Deterritorial Investigations Unit

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