The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
“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 […]
Tag Archives: governance
Translocal Futurity & Radical Municipalism – Part 1: Querying the Local
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 […]
Bruno Latour | Ecologizing the Future
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, […]
life beyond the end of pretending?
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 […]
Wisconsin Mining Standoff w/ Winona LaDuke
“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 […]
Dilip Gaonkar – Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude
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 […]
A Future That Doesn’t Work? Natalie Bennett & Nick Srnicek
“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 […]
Anarchism & Occupy Wall Street w/ Bray & Schneider
“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.”
Transformation without Apocalypse (?) Rob Nixon
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 […]
Naomi Klein is half right…
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 […]
On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology – Stanimir Panayotov
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. […]
Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown, Nafeez Ahmed
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 […]
The Vacuousness of “Society” – Marilyn Strathern
“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 […]
Agonism, Pluralism, and Contemporary Capitalism
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 […]
Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism?
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 […]
Michel Foucault Beyond Good and Evil
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 […]
Infrastructure, Infra-politics
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, […]
Richard Sennett – The Stupefying Smart City
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…
Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies
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…
Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault 1971 debate: On Human Nature
In 1971 two giants of intellectual activity debated philosophy and politics on Dutch television. Noam Chomsky (1928) is a linguist, historian, philosopher, critic and political activist. Often regarded as the […]
