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Capital Is Dead

December 30, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

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 […]

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Marx, wark

The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

December 29, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Quinn Slobodian’s book Globalists, sparked quite a controversy upon its English publication in early 2018. The Canadian historian casts new light on the history of free trade and neoliberal globalization, […]

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Slobodian

The Code of Capital?

December 16, 2019by ||| 7 Comments

Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet many theorists seem to no idea where it actually comes from, or what “it” is. What is it, exactly, that transforms […]

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Pistor

Why Fascism Is So Tempting

December 10, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“The enemies of liberal democracy hack our feelings of fear and hate and vanity, and then use these feelings to polarize and destroy. It is the responsibility of all of […]

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Harari

Thinking Ecographically?

November 22, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

I’m currently reading through a jungle of papers as preparatory work for a possible PhD run (fucking crazy, right?) in my home disciple of anthropology. My focus has been on […]

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Latour, Viveiros de Castro, Young-Leslie

The Only Land There Is

November 21, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From the uber-normie publication The Atlantic: This Land Is the Only Land There Is Seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning. ROBINSON MEYER AUGUST 8, 2019 Climate change […]

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Will We Care Enough to Matter to Them?

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Deep Adaptation is a thing. And a damn good thing. This from Professor Jem Bendell: Would you consider yourself middle class? Perhaps amongst the middle class in the West, or […]

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Bendell

Morbid Interregnum

November 6, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

In his Prison Notebooks (1930), Antonio Gramsci wrote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great […]

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Fokiana, Fraser, Gramsci

Nefarious Agents: Elliot Abrams

April 16, 2019by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

This is the first in an ongoing series intended to peel back the glossy facade of ideology and intellectual fancy to show the all-to-human faces of agents of power. It’s […]

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Uncategorized

The Secular Fanaticism of Indifference

April 9, 2019by ||| 28 Comments

“Maybe we need an indifferent politics, as well. A politics that no longer seeks to erase, exclude, and shame the opposition into hyperconformity. Without oppositional thinking, without contrarian thought we […]

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Cioran, Hickman

To Destitute The World?

March 5, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

“there are worlds to be made, forms of life made to grow apart from what reigns, including by salvaging what can be salvaged from the present state of things, and on the other, there is the imperative to attack, to simply destroy the world of capital.”

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Deleuze, Marx, Uncategorized

Collapse of Complex Societies

February 25, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

In the video below anthropologist and historian Dr. Joseph Tainter, author of the classic study The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), details some of the factors which led to the collapse of […]

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Tainter

SalvagePatch Discharge

February 12, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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, […]

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Bendell, Breitling, Morton

The Tragedy of the Commons

January 30, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

The Tragedy of the Commons Garrett Hardin The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. The author is professor of biology, University of California, […]

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Hardin

EU Commission – Warning From Scientists

January 23, 2019by ||| 5 Comments

This presentation was delivered to the ‘Foresight Group’ of the EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium on November 5, 2018. The assessment of our global prospects is extremely severe. The conclusions […]

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Bendell

How Many Have we Lost Due to Our Failure to Treat them as Comrades?

January 21, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

How Many Have we Lost Due to Our Failure to Treat them as Comrades? Hyphen_ “The thing that men and women need to do is stick together / Progressions can’t be […]

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Dean, Fisher, Spinoza

Rojava: patchworking from the Real

January 17, 2019by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

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 […]

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Jennings, Uncategorized

The Yellow Vests

December 27, 2018by Patrick jennings 42 Comments

The reaction by one of France’s “Yellow Vests” to Macron’s about face was as follows: “We have put Macron on one knee. Now he must fall.” This from a middle […]

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Hegel, Uncategorized

Global Wyrding & Deep Adaptation

November 8, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

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 […]

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Bendell, Crawford

The Uses of Disaster

November 5, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

The article below is from the Out of the Woods collective, and a clear attempt to anticipate the ‘politics to come’ in the context of ongoing climate catastrophe. What I […]

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Out Of The Woods

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