Below is a free-form conversation between world-renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering and Chris Salter on the topic of material agency, performance, art and experimental practices within the realm of […]
From Thomas Nail: The first image of black hole has just been released today. This is a profound and important aesthetic moment from a new materialist perspective. The image is […]
Originally published on Jun 19, 2017, as video from the Assemblage Thinking Symposium 2017, at the University of the Aegean. ABSTRACT: This lecture will discuss the fundamental concepts of the theory […]
Published May 22, 2017 in Theory Culture & Society: HERE VIKKI BELL: Many congratulations on the publication of your new book The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism […]
“Can ecology (as a complex system of words, sounds, deeds, affects, narratives, propensities) really ever fully merge into the allegedly totalizing system of capitalism? Here I follow Deleuze and Guattari’s […]
[Bernard Stiegler] relates that the automated processes implemented by algorithmic governmentality to Félix Guattari’s concepts of molecular machinic unconscious and machinic enslavement. The example used by Guattari for machinic enslavement […]
[][[ CROSS-POSTED from Archive Fire ]][] Adam Robbert bringing the Foucault and Deleuze eco-style: For Foucault, then, the nonhuman impresses itself onto anthropic space through the production of laws and […]
On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene Adrian Ivakhiv Ontology is in; epistemology is out. The question is no longer how we know what we know, but […]
So many ways of wishing that people were other than as they are…
“It’s a speculative accelerated realist bootleg throwdown! This episode features STEVEN SHAVIRO and ALEXANDER GALLOWAY discussing their recently published books THE UNIVERSE OF THINGS: ON SPECULATIVE REALISM and LARUELLE: AGAINST […]
I disagree with Žižek on the radical distinctness of human subjectivity. I think sapience is an elaborated capacity of sentience, which is itself a capacity emerging from organic dispositionality viz. […]
From RADIO LAB: A conversation with Eugene Thacker on the truth, beauty and post-goodness of pessimism (nihilism?) Eugene Thacker is an author and associate professor at The New School in […]
From New Books in Critical Theory: In her book, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010), Stacy Alaimo approaches the concepts of “science, environment, and self” in an […]
An excellent and compact outline of some differences between posthumanism and transhumanism from David Roden here: Posthumanists may, but need not, claim that humans are becoming more intertwined with technology. They […]
http://www.sok.bz/web/media/video/ABriefHistoryNeoliberalism.pdf Neoliberalism – the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action – has become dominant in both thought […]
Rosi Braidotti is a philosopher and feminist theoretician who holds Italian and Australian citizenship – born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received degrees from the Australian […]
Ben Woodard at the leading edge of the post-nihilst turn: “[P]essimism can provide a certain form of useful clarity (not unlike Justine’s comportment in von Trier’s Melancholia). We must pass through […]
(Free) Essays on Extinction by Claire Colebrook Download the books by clicking on the covers below.Both books will be available to purchase in print in the near future. Death of […]
In the comment section of a previous post I made the following claim: I’m a little worried about making a strong distinction between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’. Knowing and communicating are also […]
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