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PINTHW: Philosophy-in-the-wild

January 27, 2020by ||| 4 Comments

[[ from BOGNA KONIOR & YVETTE GRANATA ]]  Philosophy-in-the-wild is an ongoing, collaborative, multimedia and multi-platform non-philosophy project, devoted to re-wilding philosophy beyond its institutional (decisionist, androcentric etc) limitations. Conceptually, […]

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Granata, Konior

Thinking Marx Through Harvey

January 23, 2020by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

  I like David Harvey. I “liked” the video of his Amsterdam talk, even before I listened to it. I liked it mostly out of an habitual attraction to anything […]

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Harvey, Laruelle, Marx

Modeling Wicked Problems

January 21, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Most Anthropocene concerns are “wicked problems,” complex problems that defy a single answer and may never be solved definitively. They involve highly complicated systems that are impossible to fully know, […]

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Edwards

The Importance of Municipal Socialism to Reclaim Cities

January 17, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

DAVID HARVEY / THE IMPORTANCE OF MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM TO RECLAIM CITIES Keynote Speech at The Future is Public: Democratic Ownership of the Economy Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, December 4, 2019: David […]

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Harvey

David Harvey on Infrastructure, Smart Cities, and Sharing Economics

January 17, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

On November 14, 2016 — as part of the Barcelona Initiative for Technological Sovereignty (BITS) — David Harvey sat down with Evgeny Morozov to discuss Trump’s election and what it means for neoliberalism and infrastructure; as […]

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Harvey

follow the infrastructure

January 10, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

In this first post in a new series seeking to interrogate the political ecology infrastructures we feature Deborah Cowen’s ‘Following the infrastructures of empire’ (2019). In her paper, Cowen asks […]

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unnerving realities of the Wet’suwet’en

January 7, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

There are times I find it difficult to express publicly in certain spheres of attention the work I do within social movements as an organizer. Often, in predominantly Caucasian and […]

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Societies Evolve

January 2, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

This introductory note from Philosophical Transactions brought together papers presented at a Discussion Meeting in January 2009 where 15 scientists were invited to review important issues relevant to our understanding […]

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Darwin

Organizing for Promethean Socialism?

December 30, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

In her post “Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods“, Amelia Davenport argued for leftist organizers to reclaim the ideas of Taylor’s Scientific Management, making a broader argument for […]

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Beer, Marx

Capital Is Dead

December 30, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

In her new book, “Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?” (2019), McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a […]

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Marx, wark

The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

December 29, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Quinn Slobodian’s book Globalists, sparked quite a controversy upon its English publication in early 2018. The Canadian historian casts new light on the history of free trade and neoliberal globalization, […]

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Slobodian

Experimental Procedures for New Ontologies

December 19, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From Tom Kayzel & Sigmund Bruno Schilpzand. Review essay of: Bruno Latour (ed.), Reset Modernity (2016). Cambridge: MIT Press, 560 pp. In 2013, French philosopher Bruno Latour baffled his growing audience with the […]

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Descola, Harman, Heidegger, Latour, Lovelock, Margulis, Moore, Nietzsche, Sloterdijk

Endless Maintenance: Restoring and Stabilizing Material Worlds

December 13, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction of meaning and also admits into […]

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Edensor

Why Fascism Is So Tempting

December 10, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“The enemies of liberal democracy hack our feelings of fear and hate and vanity, and then use these feelings to polarize and destroy. It is the responsibility of all of […]

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Harari

The Homebrew Industrial Revolution

December 10, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“Localized, small‐scale economies are the rats in the dinosaurs’ nests.” || Kevin Carson Below is Kevin Carson’s wide-ranging and extensively researched treatise on how innovations in social relations and the […]

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Carson, Uncategorized

From Extinction: nine strategies for a left-hand exit

November 18, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“We must not be afraid of collapse. Another end is possible.” — Kanad Chakrabarti The following essay was first published on Noir Materialism. Uhall has important things to say about exit […]

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Uhall

The Becoming World and the Age of Ruin

November 15, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

1 It seems clear that a systems approach, most prominent in the earth sciences, has triumphed at a more general level as the new way of envisioning the world. It […]

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Jennings

on feral philosophy

November 13, 2019by ||| 7 Comments

Nostalgia overflows me as I write this… I’m remembering the free exchanges of half-baked ideas and irreverent attitudes that animated the theory “blogosphere” in the late 2000s—during the early days […]

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Bryant

Brief History of An Algorithm

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

The so-called “hard-forking” of reality (now a euphemism for a human’s cyber-massaged biases and pet projects) is one of the greatest tricks played on us by Capitalism (TM), and facilitated […]

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Chun

Crisis + Habit = Update

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

INFRA-STRUCTURE is Politics. ‘New media’—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. But what do we miss […]

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Chun

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