Deterritorializing the Future?
“The era of climate change involves the mutation of systems beyond 20th century anthropomorphic models and has stood, until recently, outside representation or address. Understood in a broad and critical […]
Tag Archives: extinction
Complicity at the Edge of Extinction
“Techno-optimism is much worse than techno-pessimism”
Bright Power, Dark Peace
Bright Power, Dark Peace By Erik Reece Robinson Jeffers and the hope of human extinction From the September 2020 issue | Download PDF On a clear October day, I walked to […]
Framing the End of the Species
The Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Volume One (2014) by Claire Colebrook From the Introduction: There are three senses of extinction: the now widely discussed sixth great extinction […]
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 […]
‘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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Facing Breakdown
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 […]
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, […]
The Tragedy of the Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons Garrett Hardin The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. The author is professor of biology, University of California, […]
Accelerating increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – On the way to 10°C?
Devastating new research released today indicating we may already be heading for 10°C increase in temperature above pre-industrial levels. This would entail a complete breakdown of the biosphere and the […]
Praxis for Lost Worlds?
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 […]
Introducing Ecobehavioral Design
Introducing Ecobehavioral Design by Mark James, PhD(c) Behavior change can be bewilderingly difficult to achieve, and just trying can quickly become the work of the weary. However, I submit, much […]
Deep Adaptation Primer
This is post functions as a constantly evolving primer for most things related to Deep Adaptation – an intellectual and pragmatic framework proposed by Dr. Jem Bendell in his July 2018 paper, […]
EU Commission – Warning From Scientists
This presentation was delivered to the ‘Foresight Group’ of the EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium on November 5, 2018. The assessment of our global prospects is extremely severe. The conclusions […]
