Capital Is Dead
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 […]
Tag Archives: polity
The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
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, […]
The Code of Capital?
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 […]
Why Fascism Is So Tempting
“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 […]
Thinking Ecographically?
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 […]
The Only Land There Is
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 […]
Will We Care Enough to Matter to Them?
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 […]
Morbid Interregnum
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 […]
Nefarious Agents: Elliot Abrams
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 […]
The Secular Fanaticism of Indifference
“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 […]
To Destitute The World?
“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.”
Collapse of Complex Societies
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 […]
SalvagePatch Discharge
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, […]
The Tragedy of the Commons
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, […]
EU Commission – Warning From Scientists
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 […]
How Many Have we Lost Due to Our Failure to Treat them as Comrades?
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 […]
Rojava: patchworking from the Real
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 […]
The Yellow Vests
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 […]
Global Wyrding & Deep Adaptation
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 […]
The Uses of Disaster
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 […]
