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November 27, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

In the wake of Covid-19 and its convulsions that have rendered ever more salient a global system dependent on the warp and weft of global supply chains and logistical systems, […]

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The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism

May 25, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

“History is not a race with a finish line — and if we make it one, it’s a game we will lose. Instead, history ought to be seen as a […]

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Translocal Futurity & Radical Municipalism – Part 1: Querying the Local

June 26, 2018by ||| 20 Comments

This post is part of an ongoing series exploring anticipatory and communalistic visions for deeply adaptive alternative communities. Our goal is to interrogate existing alt-communities, frameworks and projects in order to develop models […]

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Bruno Latour | Ecologizing the Future

January 8, 2015by ||| 1 Comment

Notes towards an emancipatory ecologistics? * What would be required of us cognitively, technically, and practically in our attempts to alter our ways of existing for more adaptive modes? Bruno Latour, […]

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Latour

life beyond the end of pretending?

January 5, 2015by dmf 3 Comments

Seminar introducing John Foster’s new book ‘After Sustainability’ with discussion by Prof Jonathan Wolff, Philosophy, UCL, and Prof Albert Weale, Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL Summary: Dangerous climate change […]

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Foster

Wisconsin Mining Standoff w/ Winona LaDuke

October 7, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“Have you heard about the Wisconsin Mining Standoff? The GTac mining proposal? What about the Enbridge pipeline expansion? guest host Rebecca Kemble was joined by Wisconsin’s 29th Senate District Candidate Paul DeMain, Harvard educated […]

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Dilip Gaonkar – Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude

October 6, 2014by ||| 1 Comment

AFTER THE FICTIONS: Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude By Dilip Gaonkar People do not riot every day, but they have rioted often enough in the past, especially since […]

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Hardt

A Future That Doesn’t Work? Natalie Bennett & Nick Srnicek

September 20, 2014by dmf 3 Comments

“Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for […]

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Srnicek

Anarchism & Occupy Wall Street w/ Bray & Schneider

September 16, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“A presentation by authors Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street and Nathan Schneider Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.”

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Schneider

Transformation without Apocalypse (?) Rob Nixon

September 16, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Rob’s talk starts around 6:55 if like me you can do without the pipedreamer intro See also: Slow Violence and The Environmentalism of the Poor Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live […]

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Nixon

Naomi Klein is half right…

September 14, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Here in this interview she rightly characterizes our escalating human-global-heating-mass-death as “an existential crisis for the human species, a clear and present danger to civilization, a death sentence for the […]

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Klein

On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology – Stanimir Panayotov

August 21, 2014by dmf 2 Comments

https://www.academia.edu/1255122/On_Guattaris_Planetary_Psychopathology Planetary psychopathology is a term used by Guattari in an Italian-published text from the early80s (Guatari 1984). Psychopathology is the science that studies the mental disorders of human beings. […]

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Berardi, Guattari

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown, Nafeez Ahmed

June 13, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown, Nafeez Ahmed http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown “A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale […]

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The Vacuousness of “Society” – Marilyn Strathern

March 6, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“Taking care of a concept: anthropological reflections on the assisted society: The lecture questions both what might be taken for granted in an appeal to society and what it then […]

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Strathern

Agonism, Pluralism, and Contemporary Capitalism

February 25, 2014by ||| 4 Comments

An Interview with William E. Connolly William E. Connolly is a political theorist known for his work on democracy and pluralism and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins […]

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Connolly

Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism?

February 18, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism? Jodi Dean points us to: http://libcom.org/blog/whos-afraid-ruins-18022014 To speak of disaster communism is not to express a preference for a post-apocalyptic style. It is a […]

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Dean

Michel Foucault Beyond Good and Evil

July 13, 2013by dmf 4 Comments

by director David Stewart, 1993 Related articles Michel Foucault’s Political Thought (2013) (foucaultnews.com) Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault 1971 debate: On Human Nature (syntheticzero.net) John Searle on Foucault and the […]

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Foucault

Infrastructure, Infra-politics

June 24, 2013by ||| 8 Comments

Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]

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Foucault, Heidegger, Marx, Mitropoulos

Richard Sennett – The Stupefying Smart City

June 9, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtrxAN2RnY Sennett brings his earlier work on “brutal simplifiers” into his recent work on open cities and architectures of co-operations in this short but pithy call…

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Sennett

Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies

June 6, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on Continental Drift:
or, the Pathic Core at the Heart of Cybernetics [This text was developed through a large number of improvised presentations. Thanks to all who listened…

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Artaud, Deleuze, Guattari, Mumford

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