Dilip Gaonkar – Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude
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
“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 […]
Anarchism & Occupy Wall Street w/ Bray & Schneider
“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.”
Transformation without Apocalypse (?) Rob Nixon
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 […]
Naomi Klein is half right…
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 […]
We Have Never Been Queer, Preciado & Halberstam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaonrB3TcM8 & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1sS7g72GF8 Is radical-academic an oxymoron?
On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology – Stanimir Panayotov
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. […]
A Brief History Neoliberalism (pdf) – David Harvey
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 […]
Process Ontology of Disaster Capitalism? Rosi Braidotti
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 […]
Anti-depressive Politics
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, […]
no boredom
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 […]
Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown, Nafeez Ahmed
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 […]
Accelerationism, Desire and Madness
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 […]
Living in Ruins, Anna Tsing
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 […]
Vibrant Matter & the Political Economy of Life
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCaku4N0SM http://www.thomaslemkeweb.de/biografie-engl.htm
The Vacuousness of “Society” – Marilyn Strathern
“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 […]
Agonism, Pluralism, and Contemporary Capitalism
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 […]
Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism?
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 […]
Being, Background, Pluripolitics
“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, […]
Isabelle Stengers – The Cosmopolitical Proposal (pdf)
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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