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Spinoza – A Philosopher for Our Time?

February 2, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. One of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the […]

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Spinoza

Superior Forms of Corruption: Xenofeminism ways of building a world from srcaps

January 30, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

From: Lesia Prokopenko Revising the split between the natural and the artificial, xenofeminism offers ways of constructing a viable future from former spaces of violence and inhibition. The Xenofeminist Manifesto is […]

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Bratton, Hester, Ireland

Collapse Patchworks: A Theory

December 23, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Originally published on THE LIBERTARIAN IDEAL: Collapse Patchworks: A Theory by Chris Shaw The complexity of modern industrial, social and organisational flows presents the headlong perception of dromological speed[1]. As […]

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Shaw

2050: Risk, Security, Collapse

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“The true worst-case scenario might be one where we don’t venture out from our safe harbors of knowledge to explore the more treacherous shores of uncertainty.” — Dr. Gavin Schmidt, […]

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Explaining Possitopia

October 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

In my talk GLOBAL WYRDING & DEEP ADAPTATION I played with the idea that there is a wider spectrum of adaptive options for organizing ourselves than what can be gleaned […]

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China Miéville: Limits of Utopia

October 20, 2020by dmf 1 Comment

China Miéville, award-winning science fiction author and associate professor of creative writing at Warwick University in England, speaks on “the limits of utopia,” exploring links between environmentalism and social justice […]

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Existenzial Inflections

October 7, 2020by ||| 3 Comments

From Simon O’Sullivan: “In relation to an explicit politics, this non-engagement with the affective complexities of life means accelerationism offers only a partial picture of the issues and problems at […]

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The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism

May 25, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

“History is not a race with a finish line — and if we make it one, it’s a game we will lose. Instead, history ought to be seen as a […]

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Davenport

On the Roof: Cloud City

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by Bruno Latour The word “network” has become a ubiquitous designation for technical infrastructures, social relations, geopolitics, mafias, and, of course, our new life online. But networks, in the way […]

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Latour, Saraceno, Sloterdijk, Whitehead

materialism, posthumanism and the climate policy assemblage

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Re-assembling climate change policy: materialism, posthumanism and the policy assemblage Nick J Fox & Pam Alldred Abstract: National and international policy-makers have addressed threats to environmental sustainability from climate change […]

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Fox

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

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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a strange melange

January 14, 2020by Patrick jennings 5 Comments

Science will not save us. Not even systems science. What systems science above all reveals about ourselves and the world is that both self and world are wholly unsavable, precisely […]

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Feyerabend, Laruelle

Framing the End of the Species

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The Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Volume One (2014) by Claire Colebrook From the Introduction: There are three senses of extinction: the now widely discussed sixth great extinction […]

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Colebrook

Societies Evolve

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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

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

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

The Code of Capital?

December 16, 2019by ||| 7 Comments

Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet many theorists seem to no idea where it actually comes from, or what “it” is. What is it, exactly, that transforms […]

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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

Thinking Ecographically?

November 22, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

I’m currently reading through a jungle of papers as preparatory work for a possible PhD run (fucking crazy, right?) in my home disciple of anthropology. My focus has been on […]

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Latour, Viveiros de Castro, Young-Leslie

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