Climate Change as Ecological Colonialism
Abstract: Climate change is a consequence of a clash between deregulated capitalism and the welfare of mankind deeply entrenched in a capitalist economic system based upon the persistent exploitation of […]
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Patchwork as Real World Vectors
Patchwork as Real World Vectors by Chris Shaw [original source: The Libertarian Ideal] I define patchwork as the adaptation and fragmentation of institutional structures through the processes of exit and voice. […]
Landscapes of Terminal Capitalism
“Aporias of Responsibility: Lifeworlds Inherited, Inhabited and Bequeathed” The ‘Anthropocene’ captures an emerging recognition, and interest in, the specificity of human geo-social formations; that is, the simultaneous operation of human-created […]
To Destitute The World?
“there are worlds to be made, forms of life made to grow apart from what reigns, including by salvaging what can be salvaged from the present state of things, and on the other, there is the imperative to attack, to simply destroy the world of capital.”
Facing Breakdown
The following report was published on Feb 12/2019 by the Institute for Public Policy Research. The conclusions are as clear as they are alarming. No one associated with policy or […]
Grief and Love at The End of the World
Shifting from this current power structure into the right way of living with the planet would absolutely be revolutionary and radical. It would mean everything has to change, literally. How […]
SalvagePatch Discharge
SalvagePatch Discharge Dustin Breitling | 31st January 2019 [originally published by Diffractions] Corpus: members, zones, functions. Heads, hands, and cartilage, burnings, smoothness, spurts, sleep, digestion, goose-bumps, excitation, breathing, digesting, reproducing, […]
Promethean and Posthuman Improvisation and Time
Dr David Roden has worked for the Open University as a lecturer and associate lecturer. His published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the […]
The Tragedy of the Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons Garrett Hardin The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. The author is professor of biology, University of California, […]
Introducing Ecobehavioral Design
Introducing Ecobehavioral Design by Mark James, PhD(c) Behavior change can be bewilderingly difficult to achieve, and just trying can quickly become the work of the weary. However, I submit, much […]
A Deep Adaptation Primer
This is post functions as a constantly evolving primer for most things related to Deep Adaptation – an intellectual and pragmatic framework proposed by Dr. Jem Bendell in his July 2018 paper, […]
EU Commission – Warning From Scientists
This presentation was delivered to the ‘Foresight Group’ of the EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium on November 5, 2018. The assessment of our global prospects is extremely severe. The conclusions […]
Rojava: patchworking from the Real
The following builds on points made by Michael in “Global Wyrding and Deeply Adaptive Patchworking“: As long as humans have been gathering and cooperating in relatively stable sedentary complexes, issues […]
Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds
Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds by Stephen Woroniecki Do you remember those childhood TV series where machines come and chew up the earth and the forest creatures […]
Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation
SOURCE: Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation “People need hope, Jem.” “It’s really important to have a vision of a better future, […]
The Emergent Patterns of Climate Change
You can’t understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It’s the whole, or it’s nothing. In this talk, Schmidt explains how he studies the big picture of […]
The Yellow Vests
The reaction by one of France’s “Yellow Vests” to Macron’s about face was as follows: “We have put Macron on one knee. Now he must fall.” This from a middle […]
Death of the Thinker
Can thought be put in danger? I recently had the experience of encountering that old bogeyman of dogmatic thought while reading a text by someone whose writing I had gotten […]
On Marx and Socialized Nature
I’d like to comment on Edmund Berger’s post on the “ecological” Marx which you can read here. The nub of the issue he raises is summarised in the following: This […]
“it’s fragments that feel true”
More and more it’s fragments that feel true. by Antonio Dias Fragments show their edges. Edges that intrude into the illusion of completion. Edges that cannot be ignored. Fragments insist […]
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