The End of the Megamachine?
Fabian Scheidler in conversation w/ Professor Richard D. Wolff on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff about “The End of the #Megamachine”, tipping points in the Earth system, social movements, […]
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Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance
By Craig Collins [original source] As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust. But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase. Growth-less capitalism turns catabolic. The […]
How to build a new world in the shell of the old
Every city has its graveyard of community groups. Without a strategic vision, local projects cannot possibly amount to a systemic alternative to capitalism. April 28, 2018 “Another world is not […]
Joseph Tainter on ‘Collapse’
“Collapse is a broad term that can cover many kinds of processes. It means different things to different people. Some see collapse as a thing that could happen only to […]
The Impossible WE?
The Impossible WE? by Jonathan Rowson (original source: Emerge) A bigger ‘we’ is often called upon to take collective action to address our burning global emergencies. But ‘we’ is the […]
Being In An Environment: a performative perspective
This paper by Andrew Pickering is a revised version of a talk given at Oxford University, February 2, 2012, as part of a series of Linacre Lectures on “Environmental Governance […]
Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution
From the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories, August 29th, 2021. Published in Ill Will: Preface For four years, the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories […]
Infrastructure For A Life In Common
The transformation required to take place, to approach something we might call “revolution,” is as much spiritual and ethical as it is political and economic, and we need to be able to balance these different registers simultaneously, to not allow ourselves to get stuck, stale, and withdrawn.
Precarious Possibilities of Life in Capitalist Ruins
“Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt-Tsing examines our precarious present – where environmental degradation and economic alienation threaten to dismantle ways of life (and actual life itself) – and explains why collaborative survival in the future requires a radical re-imagining of growth, modernity and progress.
Superior Forms of Corruption: Xenofeminism ways of building a world from srcaps
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 […]
Collapse Patchworks: A Theory
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 […]
A field guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction
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: Limits of Utopia
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 […]
Preparing for the end of the world as we know it
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. […]
The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
“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 […]
Covid Fallout
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 […]
War Capitalism
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 […]
Badiou’s truth and the fate of bodies
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 […]
The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
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 […]
materialism, posthumanism and the climate policy assemblage
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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