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 […]
In the wake of Covid-19 and its convulsions that have rendered ever more salient a global system dependent on the warp and weft of global supply chains and logistical systems, […]
From the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is a collective of researchers, artists, educators, activists and Indigenous knowledge keepers from the Global North and South. […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
|| patchwork as programmatic practicality || there is much to be said of the weirding and corrosiveness liberty of deterritorializing, while an equal amount is to be done about the […]
Wholesome Design For Wicked Problems by Rob Knapp Problem: One often regards difficulties or issues as problems to be solved, but one must beware the implication that the first step […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Below is the revised and expanded text version a talk given during Wyrd/Patchwork #2, at Punctum in Prague on 26 October 2018. The session was organized by the folks at […]
Originally posted on Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Anthropocene:
Kenneth McLeod, Anthropocene Transitions Program, October 2018 The first draft of this paper was prepared as a talk for Social…
The folks at Diffractions Collective in Prague, in collaboration with a few other groups, are hosting a second Wyrd/Patchworkshop on October 26, 2018, at 5:30pm in the U.K (9:30am Mountain […]
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to resurgent theorytwitter buzz for the essay. Read the original in full: here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** […]
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to resurgent theorytwitter buzz for the essay. Read the original in full: here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** […]
ARCHIPELAGO AND ATOMIC COMMUNITARIANISM by SCOTT ALEXANDER I. In the old days, you had your Culture, and that was that. Your Culture told you lots of stuff about what you […]
I couldn’t be more stoked about Arran’s spectacular return to blogging on this website. His contributions, already, are catalyzing several important lines of thought and will only improve and intensify […]
Xenogothic has written a reply to my last post that demands a response. The need to reply comes from the fact that it hits on philosophical touchstones that I had […]
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 […]
