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 […]
The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. Its scale defies comprehension, and conceals its true nature – not as one gigantic issue, but as many. In order […]
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 […]
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. […]
“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 […]
The Covid 19 crisis has weakened the United States and the European Union. For the most part, American states and European nation-states have retreated behind borders and reverted to a […]
Suddenly we are living under war capitalism. As in any war, people are dying. Nothing very meaningful can be said about that. One can look at the videos coming out […]
In a recent post over at “Agent Swarm” Terrance Blake linked to a translation by Timothy Lavenz of a section of Badiou’s “Immanence of Truths”. The piece set me thinking […]
In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, offers a groundbreaking look ahead at what may happen after the war in Afghanistan […]
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 […]
I like David Harvey. I “liked” the video of his Amsterdam talk, even before I listened to it. I liked it mostly out of an habitual attraction to anything […]
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, […]
As the economic “elites” gather to collude to maintain the extinction stack by undermining democracy and consolidating infrastructural power, many of us are preparing for a much different reckoning. The […]
DAVID HARVEY / THE IMPORTANCE OF MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM TO RECLAIM CITIES Keynote Speech at The Future is Public: Democratic Ownership of the Economy Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, December 4, 2019: David […]
On November 14, 2016 — as part of the Barcelona Initiative for Technological Sovereignty (BITS) — David Harvey sat down with Evgeny Morozov to discuss Trump’s election and what it means for neoliberalism and infrastructure; as […]
In this first post in a new series seeking to interrogate the political ecology infrastructures we feature Deborah Cowen’s ‘Following the infrastructures of empire’ (2019). In her paper, Cowen asks […]
There are times I find it difficult to express publicly in certain spheres of attention the work I do within social movements as an organizer. Often, in predominantly Caucasian and […]
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 […]
In her post “Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods“, Amelia Davenport argued for leftist organizers to reclaim the ideas of Taylor’s Scientific Management, making a broader argument for […]
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 […]
