Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds
Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds by Stephen Woroniecki Do you remember those childhood TV series where machines come and chew up the earth and the forest creatures […]
Tag Archives: extinction
On Marx and Socialized Nature
I’d like to comment on Edmund Berger’s post on the “ecological” Marx which you can read here. The nub of the issue he raises is summarised in the following: This […]
Global Weirding & Deep Adaptation
Below is the revised and expanded text version a talk given during Wyrd/Patchwork #2, at Punctum in Prague on 26 October 2018. The session was organized by the folks at […]
The Uses of Disaster
The article below is from the Out of the Woods collective, and a clear attempt to anticipate the ‘politics to come’ in the context of ongoing climate catastrophe. What I […]
Giant Power: Technology, Energy, and the Beginnings of Post-Truth America
Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, presenting at the Mahindra Center on October 18, 2017: Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. She […]
Fourteen Recommendations on Living Beyond Collapse-Denial
Dr. Jem Bendell is a Cambridge educated Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria (UK). He focuses on […]
Tunneling in the Chthulucene
Below is a video of a plenary session with Anna Tsing & Donna Haraway that took place at the eleventh biennial ASLE conference on Thursday, June 25th at the University […]
Ecologics and Anthropogenic Transition
Originally posted on Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Anthropocene:
Kenneth McLeod, Anthropocene Transitions Program, October 2018 The first draft of this paper was prepared as a talk for Social…
desert storms
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
it’s later than we thought
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
no (global) future
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by Anonymous Author’s Note I […]
Catastrophe, Collapse, Apology: words missing from the IPCC report
“Over past decades those who think things are worse than what the IPCC were saying have been proved right. If that holds true now, then its time more of us […]
Struggle Without Fear
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 […]
Xenogothic on Patchwork Subjectivities
I couldn’t be more stoked about Arran’s spectacular return to blogging on this website. His contributions, already, are catalyzing several important lines of thought and will only improve and intensify […]
The Ko’an of Extinction
Xenogothic has written a reply to my last post that demands a response. The need to reply comes from the fact that it hits on philosophical touchstones that I had […]
Utopia and Climate Change
Utopia and Climate Change // David Ruccio The warnings about the consequences of global warming are becoming increasingly dire. And with good reason. Just last month, a report by a multidisciplinary […]
What is the Philosophy of Movement? // Thomas Nail
I’m very much looking forward to Thomas Nail‘s new book Being and Motion (out from Oxford this winter) outlining an ontography and philosophical history of movement. Nothing could be more […]
City-state Survivalism
In terms of politics climate change trumps everything else. It should be our primary concern if we want to survive or live with any kind of comfort*. Therefore all design […]
dismantling the future: lunatic riffs on extinction engineering
Just finished my first pass of the first chapter of Inventing the Future. Its pretty familiar but still quite dense for that. One of the lurking monsters beneath the chapter […]
Unknowing in the Wild
Survival, in the sense Desert suggests it to me, is something completely different, for in it any social group or kin network, as it attempts to live on, cannot draw significant […]
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