Why Agriculture Can Never Be Sustainable
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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The End of the Megamachine?
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, […]
How to build a new world in the shell of the old
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 […]
Joseph Tainter on ‘Collapse’
“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 […]
Being In An Environment: a performative perspective
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 […]
Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution
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 […]
Geokinetics and the Metastable Eaarth
“Geokinetics has three aspects: the flow of matter, the fold of elements, and the circulation of planetary fields.”
For A Vernacular Of The Possible?
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 […]
Collapse Patchworks: A Theory
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 […]
Resisting the Coming Barbarism
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 […]
PROTOCOLS FOR THE PHASE TRANSITION
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 […]
Explaining Possitopia
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 […]
China Miéville: Limits of Utopia
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 […]
Abdou Maliq Simone on Feral Urbanism
“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 […]
deep adaptation as post-nihilist praxis?
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, […]
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 […]
War Capitalism
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 […]
The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
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 […]
On the Roof: Cloud City
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 […]
materialism, posthumanism and the climate policy assemblage
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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