The Earth Multiple – Towards a Climate Pluriverse?
The keynote lecture below was delivered by Dr. Martin Savransky at the STingG Symposium 2024 — an event held on June 19 at the University of Sheffield’s Arts Tower. The […]
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The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Intelligence
Shane Smith sits down with Sam Harris, philosopher, neuroscientist, and bestselling author for a deep conversation about artificial intelligence, consciousness, and the fragile future of humanity. They begin with Sam’s […]
Wasteland Commons and Three Frames of Ecological Nihilism
By Dominic Piacentini | University of Maine The Anthropocene poses new challenges to those who engage in subsistence activities. In Appalachia, as vast acres of land are either seized for […]
Agentic Collapse
by Chris Shaw | orginally published at Collapse Patchworks Modernity, equality and democracy are viruses, parasitical assemblages atop a decaying civilisational corpse. Their corollaries of identity and universality are appendages […]
Counter-Apocalyptica
The world, we are told, is ending. Climate collapse, mass extinction, political disintegration—the Anthropocene is branded as a singular catastrophe, the final act of civilization. But what if the end […]
Matter, affect, life: A Whiteheadian intervention into ‘more-than-human’ geographies
by Tom Roberts ABSTRACT: Geographic theorisations of the ‘non-’ or ‘more-than-human’ continue to play a significant role in disrupting anthropocentrism within the humanities and social sciences. This article explores how […]
How Am I Called Upon by the Planet?
By Lukáš Likavčan | ŠUM #23 Read from a distant planet, the majuscule script [Majuskel-Schrift] of our earthly existence would perhaps seduce the reader to the conclusion that the earth […]
To be a man!
From D.H. Lawrence:
Planetary Realism
An opening plenary by Nathan Gardels November 2024 1. The Condition of Planetarity The condition of planetarity is grounded in an awareness that we humans are not the center of […]
Planetary Sapience | Benjamin Bratton
JUNE 17, 2021 Benjamin Bratton is a professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, and the director of the terraforming program at the Strelka Institute in […]
Tarrying With The Possible?
In ‘Global Weirding & Deep Adaptation‘ I played with the suggestion that there is a wider spectrum of options for envisioning the future than what can be gleaned from two of […]
How to build a new world in the shell of the old
Every city has its graveyard of community groups. Without a strategic vision, local projects cannot possibly amount to a systemic alternative to capitalism. April 28, 2018 “Another world is not […]
SYMBIOTIC SKINS, METABOLIC SCHEMA
by Ally Bisshop When Johann von Goethe wrote his 1790 treatise on the metamorphosis of plants,[1] he invited us to read in the form of a plant the signs of […]
Joseph Tainter on ‘Collapse’
“Collapse is a broad term that can cover many kinds of processes. It means different things to different people. Some see collapse as a thing that could happen only to […]
The Impossible WE?
The Impossible WE? by Jonathan Rowson (original source: Emerge) A bigger ‘we’ is often called upon to take collective action to address our burning global emergencies. But ‘we’ is the […]
The Infinite Sales Bay of the Universe
An essay by philosopher Amy Ireland. Text source here. Originally published in the exhibition catalogue for Andre Škufca’s Black Market, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, 2020. “You’re absolutely right. […]
Being In An Environment: a performative perspective
This paper by Andrew Pickering is a revised version of a talk given at Oxford University, February 2, 2012, as part of a series of Linacre Lectures on “Environmental Governance […]
Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution
From the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories, August 29th, 2021. Published in Ill Will: Preface For four years, the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories […]
Wild Things: A Conversation with Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett
Below Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett meet in a vibratory encounter designed not to explain or judge but to dilate, to influence, and to disorder. They speak of desire and […]
Precarious Possibilities of Life in Capitalist Ruins
“Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt-Tsing examines our precarious present – where environmental degradation and economic alienation threaten to dismantle ways of life (and actual life itself) – and explains why collaborative survival in the future requires a radical re-imagining of growth, modernity and progress.
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