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Why Agriculture Can Never Be Sustainable

May 13, 2022by ||| 2 Comments

Ten thousand years of agriculture has devastated every ecosystem it has come in contact with. Horticultural societies point toward a solution, and permaculture can help us design a way to […]

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Hemenway

The End of the Megamachine?

February 24, 2022by ||| Leave a comment

Fabian Scheidler in conversation w/ Professor Richard D. Wolff on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff about “The End of the #Megamachine”, tipping points in the Earth system, social movements, […]

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Wolff

How to build a new world in the shell of the old

December 20, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

Every city has its graveyard of community groups. Without a strategic vision, local projects cannot possibly amount to a systemic alternative to capitalism. April 28, 2018 “Another world is not […]

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Arendt

Joseph Tainter on ‘Collapse’

October 7, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

“Collapse is a broad term that can cover many kinds of processes. It means different things to different people. Some see collapse as a thing that could happen only to […]

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Tainter

Being In An Environment: a performative perspective

October 4, 2021by ||| 1 Comment

This paper by Andrew Pickering is a revised version of a talk given at Oxford University, February 2, 2012, as part of a series of Linacre Lectures on “Environmental Governance […]

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Pickering

Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution

September 28, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

From the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories, August 29th, 2021. Published in Ill Will: Preface For four years, the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories […]

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Geokinetics and the Metastable Eaarth

April 23, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

“Geokinetics has three aspects: the flow of matter, the fold of elements, and the circulation of planetary fields.”

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Nail

For A Vernacular Of The Possible?

February 9, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

Fragments from Sven Lütticken’s new essay E-FLUX Journal #115 – February 2021: In the 1970s, the Marxist theorist Raymond Williams warned against treating “feudal culture” or “bourgeois culture” as monolithic blocs […]

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Agamben, Aristotle, Haraway, Hegel, Kelly, Williams

Collapse Patchworks: A Theory

December 23, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Originally published on THE LIBERTARIAN IDEAL: Collapse Patchworks: A Theory by Chris Shaw The complexity of modern industrial, social and organisational flows presents the headlong perception of dromological speed[1]. As […]

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Shaw

Resisting the Coming Barbarism

December 17, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Isabelle Stengers’ book, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism (2015), is available for free as a .pdf download here. Below is an official description of the book: There has […]

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Stengers

PROTOCOLS FOR THE PHASE TRANSITION

October 23, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

From THE TERRAFORMING: As new urgencies surface and new territories are defined, new alliances must be built. Inspired by the typology of starling murmuration, A.S.T. (Diann Bauer, Felice Grodin, Patricia […]

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Terraforming

Explaining Possitopia

October 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

In my talk GLOBAL WYRDING & DEEP ADAPTATION I played with the idea that there is a wider spectrum of adaptive options for organizing ourselves than what can be gleaned […]

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China Miéville: Limits of Utopia

October 20, 2020by dmf 1 Comment

China Miéville, award-winning science fiction author and associate professor of creative writing at Warwick University in England, speaks on “the limits of utopia,” exploring links between environmentalism and social justice […]

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Mieville

Abdou Maliq Simone on Feral Urbanism

July 28, 2020by ||| 6 Comments

“The feral city is a city given over to the instigation of incomputable eventualities, even as regimes of calculation have taken over the production of urban space.” — Abdou Maliq […]

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deep adaptation as post-nihilist praxis?

July 2, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

There is a long line of thinking and writing that frames ideological negation as emancipatory, or as an advancement of cognitive ability towards a more fluid interpretation of experience that, […]

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Bendell

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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Davenport

War Capitalism

March 24, 2020by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

Suddenly we are living under war capitalism. As in any war, people are dying. Nothing very meaningful can be said about that. One can look at the videos coming out […]

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The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla

February 18, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, offers a groundbreaking look ahead at what may happen after the war in Afghanistan […]

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Kilcullen

On the Roof: Cloud City

February 5, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

by Bruno Latour The word “network” has become a ubiquitous designation for technical infrastructures, social relations, geopolitics, mafias, and, of course, our new life online. But networks, in the way […]

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Latour, Saraceno, Sloterdijk, Whitehead

materialism, posthumanism and the climate policy assemblage

February 4, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Re-assembling climate change policy: materialism, posthumanism and the policy assemblage Nick J Fox & Pam Alldred Abstract: National and international policy-makers have addressed threats to environmental sustainability from climate change […]

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