Deeply Adaptive Patchworking vs. Fully Automated Fantasy
Interest in patchwork is moving out beyond its capture in the Landian gravity-well and as it does attention is moving from the system to the object level. The people I’m […]
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The Spectre of Patchwork
A spectre is haunting #CaveTwitter — the spectre of patchwork. […] Xenogothic is animating the conversation about patchwork in important ways lately, and I usually find nothing to complain about […]
Polanyi’s The Great Transformation – a summary
From Asad Zaman Professor, Economist and currently Vice Chancellor of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad: Ever since the spectacular failure of modern economic theory became obvious to all in […]
Utopia and Climate Change
Utopia and Climate Change // David Ruccio The warnings about the consequences of global warming are becoming increasingly dire. And with good reason. Just last month, a report by a multidisciplinary […]
Wyrd Patchwork?
I’m going to be phoning it in to Prague on Saturday afternoon, talking about the wyrd and the weird in relation to patchwork; the gothic as a speculative aesthetics that […]
Politics Down To Earth
“Right and Left have ceased to function today because they have failed to specify the material framework through which to differentiate themselves from each other. Ecological change obliges us to […]
What is the Philosophy of Movement? // Thomas Nail
I’m very much looking forward to Thomas Nail‘s new book Being and Motion (out from Oxford this winter) outlining an ontography and philosophical history of movement. Nothing could be more […]
Ray Brassier: Marx & Philosophy
RAY BRASSIER: MARX & PHILOSOPHY The New Centre for Research & Practice – Streamed live on Jan 20, 2018 DESCRIPTION: Marx’s analysis of capital continues to haunt contemporary theoretical discourse. As […]
Livestream with Justin Murphy
Below is video from a livestream chat I did with Justin Murphy on August 18, 2018. Justin is Lecturer in Governance and Policy within Politics & International Relations at the […]
The Use and Abuse of Models
In response to recent pushback on patchwork theory Xenogothic asks the following questions: perhaps the problem here is the very thinking of patchwork as a model in the first place… […]
From Transcendental Empiricism to Worker Nomadism
From Transcendental Empiricism to Worker Nomadism: William James by David Lapoujade William James calls himself a radical empiricist. His philosophy is not, as it is widely believed, pragmatism, but rather […]
Why a leading political theorist thinks civilization is overrated
Via the lefties at VOX: A CONVERSATION WITH ANTHROPOLOGIST JAMES C. SCOTT Is civilization good for us? Has it made us any happier? The takeaway from a new book by […]
Logistics, Counterlogistics, and the Communist Prospect
LOGISTICS, COUNTERLOGISTICS AND THE COMMUNIST PROSPECT by Jasper Bernes What is theory for? What good is it, in the fight against capital and state? For much of the left, the […]
Interpassive User: Complicity and the Returns of Cybernetics
Interpassive User: Complicity and the Returns of Cybernetics – Svitlana Matviyenko – Abstract: This essay discusses the notions of “extension” and “prosthesis” as two different logics and modes of being […]
We’re Fucked. So (Now) What? | R. Scott Bakker
“Conscious self-creation.” This is the nostrum Roy Scranton offers at the end of his now notorious piece, “We’re Doomed. Now What?” Conscious self-creation is the ‘now what,’ the imperative that […]
J.K. Gibson-Graham, ‘Take Back the Economy’ | Oliver Mispelhorn
from PROGRESS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY: I first became aware of the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham a few years ago, when a friend recommended that I read their seminal work The End […]
Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve | Debbie Bookchin
From ROAR Magazine – Issue #6 I am the daughter of two longtime municipalists. My mother, Beatrice Bookchin, ran for city council of Burlington, Vermont thirty years ago, in 1987, on an […]
U/Acc in Michael Cisco’s Animal Money | Jeremy Trombley
U/Acc in Michael Cisco’s Animal Money by Jeremy Trombley [[ originally posted at Struggle Forever! Feb 24, 2018 ]] Acceleration, in physics, is the rate of change in velocity with […]
Translocal Futurity & Radical Municipalism – Part 1: Querying the Local
This post is part of an ongoing series exploring anticipatory and communalistic visions for deeply adaptive alternative communities. Our goal is to interrogate existing alt-communities, frameworks and projects in order to develop models […]
How to Be an Anticapitalist Today | Eric Wright
“Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.” For many people the idea of anticapitalism seems ridiculous. After all, capitalist firms have brought us […]
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