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Dilip Gaonkar – Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude

October 6, 2014by ||| 1 Comment

AFTER THE FICTIONS: Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude By Dilip Gaonkar People do not riot every day, but they have rioted often enough in the past, especially since […]

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A Future That Doesn’t Work? Natalie Bennett & Nick Srnicek

September 20, 2014by dmf 3 Comments

“Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for […]

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Srnicek

Anarchism & Occupy Wall Street w/ Bray & Schneider

September 16, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“A presentation by authors Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street and Nathan Schneider Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.”

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Schneider

Transformation without Apocalypse (?) Rob Nixon

September 16, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Rob’s talk starts around 6:55 if like me you can do without the pipedreamer intro See also: Slow Violence and The Environmentalism of the Poor Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live […]

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Nixon

Naomi Klein is half right…

September 14, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Here in this interview she rightly characterizes our escalating human-global-heating-mass-death as “an existential crisis for the human species, a clear and present danger to civilization, a death sentence for the […]

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Klein

We Have Never Been Queer, Preciado & Halberstam

September 14, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaonrB3TcM8 & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1sS7g72GF8 Is radical-academic an oxymoron?

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Halberstam

On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology – Stanimir Panayotov

August 21, 2014by dmf 2 Comments

https://www.academia.edu/1255122/On_Guattaris_Planetary_Psychopathology Planetary psychopathology is a term used by Guattari in an Italian-published text from the early80s (Guatari 1984). Psychopathology is the science that studies the mental disorders of human beings. […]

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Berardi, Guattari

A Brief History Neoliberalism (pdf) – David Harvey

August 7, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

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 […]

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Process Ontology of Disaster Capitalism? Rosi Braidotti

August 6, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

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 […]

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Braidotti

Anti-depressive Politics

June 13, 2014by Arran Crawford 13 Comments

A new Prometheus need not take the form of the ‘Modern Prince’, the party, if the latter is regarded as a commanding height and centre supervenient on any other council, […]

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Bookchin, Cioran, Toscano, Zizek

no boredom

June 13, 2014by Arran Crawford 7 Comments

In Mark Fisher’s talk he repeated the recent intervention made by the Institute for Precarious Consciousness where it states that we have moved from a world of boredom to one […]

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Fisher, Virilio

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown, Nafeez Ahmed

June 13, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown, Nafeez Ahmed http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown “A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale […]

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Accelerationism, Desire and Madness

June 11, 2014by Arran Crawford 4 Comments

Last night at the Glasgow School of Art Mark Fisher took the stage to discuss accelerationism. I have to say that up until last night I had given only a passing interest […]

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Ballard, Bookchin, Deleuze, Fisher, Foucault, Guattari, Marx

Living in Ruins, Anna Tsing

June 5, 2014by dmf 4 Comments

PART ONE (OF 4) – go to YouTube for the rest   UC Santa Cruz anthropologist Anna Tsing is one of six international scholars to win a $5 million Niels Bohr Professorship […]

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Tsing

Vibrant Matter & the Political Economy of Life

March 6, 2014by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCaku4N0SM http://www.thomaslemkeweb.de/biografie-engl.htm

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Bennett, Foucault

The Vacuousness of “Society” – Marilyn Strathern

March 6, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“Taking care of a concept: anthropological reflections on the assisted society: The lecture questions both what might be taken for granted in an appeal to society and what it then […]

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Agonism, Pluralism, and Contemporary Capitalism

February 25, 2014by ||| 4 Comments

An Interview with William E. Connolly William E. Connolly is a political theorist known for his work on democracy and pluralism and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins […]

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Connolly

Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism?

February 18, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism? Jodi Dean points us to: http://libcom.org/blog/whos-afraid-ruins-18022014 To speak of disaster communism is not to express a preference for a post-apocalyptic style. It is a […]

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Being, Background, Pluripolitics

January 28, 2014by ||| 29 Comments

 “We start from the One, rather than arriving at it. We start from the One, which is to say that if we go anywhere, it will be toward the World, […]

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Isabelle Stengers – The Cosmopolitical Proposal (pdf)

January 25, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

From Isabelle Stengers’ ‘The Cosmopolitical Proposal’ (pdf): How can I present a proposal intended not to say what is, or what ought to be, but to provoke thought; one that […]

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