The Homebrew Industrial Revolution
“Localized, small‐scale economies are the rats in the dinosaurs’ nests.” || Kevin Carson Below is Kevin Carson’s wide-ranging and extensively researched treatise on how innovations in social relations and the […]
Tag Archives: existenz
Melancholy of Resistance (pdf)
“Catastrophe! Of course! Last judgement! Horseshit! It’s you that are the catastrophe, you’re the bloody last judgement, your feet don’t even touch the ground, you bunch of sleepwalkers.” ― László […]
Thinking Ecographically?
I’m currently reading through a jungle of papers as preparatory work for a possible PhD run (fucking crazy, right?) in my home disciple of anthropology. My focus has been on […]
‘for its apotheosis will be the final catastrophe’
embrace negation || unleash creation “ Protest only serves as the prenatal expression of an attitude that must still give birth to direct action. In order to create new possibilities, […]
The Only Land There Is
From the uber-normie publication The Atlantic: This Land Is the Only Land There Is Seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning. ROBINSON MEYER AUGUST 8, 2019 Climate change […]
Into a Silent Universe
“The world is increasingly unthinkable – a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction.” – Eugene Thacker (2011) […]
on feral philosophy
1. Consider the term “livestock.” With one word, a sentient animal with a full emotional life and a unique personality becomes a unit of stock, and then simply “meat.” Nothing […]
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 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 whose world has […]
Towards a Terran Resistance Front?
E-Flux‘s latest installment has a great piece by Sven Lütticken, ‘Toward a Terrestrial‘, riffing on communist history and its possible mutations towards a terrestrial politics. Latour’s theoretic attractor “The Terrestrial” […]
Bendell’s Bristol Lecture on Deep Adaptation
This Jem Bendell’s lecture on Deep Adaptation, delivered in Bristol, UK, in Feb 2019. Bendell uses a more informal format, inviting the audience to explore forms of action additional to […]
Under the Sign of Erasure
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Capitalist realism is about a corrosion of social imagination, and in some ways, that remains the problem: after thirty…
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 […]
Black Hole Sun: On the Materialist Sublime
From Thomas Nail: The first image of black hole has just been released today. This is a profound and important aesthetic moment from a new materialist perspective. The image is […]
Requiem for the Abyss
From the mindings of S.C Hickman: Society—an inferno of saviors! —Emile Cioran No one reads the decadents much anymore, maybe it is because we have moved the world into a […]
Patchwork as Real World Vectors
Patchwork as Real World Vectors by Chris Shaw [original source: The Libertarian Ideal] I define patchwork as the adaptation and fragmentation of institutional structures through the processes of exit and voice. […]
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 […]
Grief and Love at The End of the World
Shifting from this current power structure into the right way of living with the planet would absolutely be revolutionary and radical. It would mean everything has to change, literally. How […]
SalvagePatch Discharge
SalvagePatch Discharge Dustin Breitling | 31st January 2019 [originally published by Diffractions] Corpus: members, zones, functions. Heads, hands, and cartilage, burnings, smoothness, spurts, sleep, digestion, goose-bumps, excitation, breathing, digesting, reproducing, […]
Promethean and Posthuman Improvisation and Time
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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