no boredom
In Mark Fisher’s talk he repeated the recent intervention made by the Institute for Precarious Consciousness where it states that we have moved from a world of boredom to one […]
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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 […]
Accelerationism, Desire and Madness
Last night at the Glasgow School of Art Mark Fisher took the stage to discuss accelerationism. I have to say that up until last night I had given only a passing interest […]
Living in Ruins, Anna Tsing
PART ONE (OF 4) – go to YouTube for the rest UC Santa Cruz anthropologist Anna Tsing is one of six international scholars to win a $5 million Niels Bohr Professorship […]
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 […]
Designing the Apocalypse: On the Limits of Cartography
Originally posted on Unlimited Dream Company ('Despairing at last, I decided to die' -J.G. Ballard):
I was thinking of forwarding a comment to Adam Robbert’s post at knowledge-ecology.com (Earth’s Aesthetics: Knowledge…
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 […]
the in-itself, together
To exercise one’s capacities to their fullest extent is to take pleasure in one’s own existence, and with sociable creatures, such pleasures are proportionally magnified when performed in company… It […]
Being, Background, Pluripolitics
“We start from the One, rather than arriving at it. We start from the One, which is to say that if we go anywhere, it will be toward the World, […]
Latour’s ‘What Is the Recommended Dose of Ontological Pluralism for a Safe Anthropological Diplomacy?’
In light of the recent ‘realism v. pluralism’ debates… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U1FbAMEpzQ http://anthem-group.net/2014/01/28/2013-gad-distinguished-lecture-bruno-latour/
Judith Butler on ‘Precarious Life: The Obligations of Proximity’ (1/7)
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has had a significant influence on the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, philosophy, […]
The Catastrophic and the Post-apocalyptic
The present is filled with catastrophe and apocalypticism. A certain phrase has been deployed and redeployed in summarising the condition we find ourselves in: it is easier to imagine the end […]
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 […]
Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism – David Harvey
AUDIO: David Harvey ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ In this lecture drawing on his new ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ David Harvey will explore the way capital […]
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, […]
The Spaces of Practices and Large Social Phenomena
Theodore Schatzki is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, whose research and teaching deal with social ontology, theory of action, social theory, the philosophy of the social […]
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