“Action relies on courage, not hope.”
From October 9, 2018 The New Republic: The Case for Climate Pessimism By EMILY ATKIN Some climate change activists oppose doom-and-gloom rhetoric. They know that, if we don’t reduce greenhouse gas […]
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Accelerationism in a nutshell?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-B7-Vcdlld8%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent If you had to sum up the essence of Accelerationism in a nutshell, you could do worst than recommend somebody watch this: Sometimes, 5 minutes of audio visual composition, […]
‘Capitalism and its Threats’ (2018) via Žižek
I’m not convinced Žižek is genuine in a lot of his critiques. Maybe he relishes in being a bit of a gadfly? I do, however, always come away from his […]
desert storms
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
it’s later than we thought
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. Read Part 1 here. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by […]
no (global) future
We are reposting this text in fragments (as is our nature) in relation to the resurgent theorytwitter buzz. All comments and discussion welcome. *** Desert, by Anonymous Author’s Note I […]
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
ARCHIPELAGO AND ATOMIC COMMUNITARIANISM by SCOTT ALEXANDER I. In the old days, you had your Culture, and that was that. Your Culture told you lots of stuff about what you […]
(re)Imagining Infrastructures
Fascinating discussion from last year, out of the British Academy, about what infrastructure is and how the concept may have subtly changed over time (for example, the material and conceptual, […]
Struggle Without Fear
Struggle Without Fear by Patrick Jennings 1. This text came about as a comment on Arran’s post “The Ko’an of Extinction”. It is not a critique as much as a […]
Xenogothic on Patchwork Subjectivities
I couldn’t be more stoked about Arran’s spectacular return to blogging on this website. His contributions, already, are catalyzing several important lines of thought and will only improve and intensify […]
Deeply Adaptive Patchworking vs. Fully Automated Fantasy
Interest in patchwork is moving out beyond its capture in the Landian gravity-well and as it does attention is moving from the system to the object level. The people I’m […]
Wyrd Patchwork?
I’m going to be phoning it in to Prague on Saturday afternoon, talking about the wyrd and the weird in relation to patchwork; the gothic as a speculative aesthetics that […]
Livestream with Justin Murphy
Below is video from a livestream chat I did with Justin Murphy on August 18, 2018. Justin is Lecturer in Governance and Policy within Politics & International Relations at the […]
We’re Fucked. So (Now) What? | R. Scott Bakker
“Conscious self-creation.” This is the nostrum Roy Scranton offers at the end of his now notorious piece, “We’re Doomed. Now What?” Conscious self-creation is the ‘now what,’ the imperative that […]
J.K. Gibson-Graham, ‘Take Back the Economy’ | Oliver Mispelhorn
from PROGRESS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY: I first became aware of the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham a few years ago, when a friend recommended that I read their seminal work The End […]
Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve | Debbie Bookchin
From ROAR Magazine – Issue #6 I am the daughter of two longtime municipalists. My mother, Beatrice Bookchin, ran for city council of Burlington, Vermont thirty years ago, in 1987, on an […]
Translocal Futurity & Radical Municipalism – Part 1: Querying the Local
This post is part of an ongoing series exploring anticipatory and communalistic visions for deeply adaptive alternative communities. Our goal is to interrogate existing alt-communities, frameworks and projects in order to develop models […]
How to Be an Anticapitalist Today | Eric Wright
“Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.” For many people the idea of anticapitalism seems ridiculous. After all, capitalist firms have brought us […]
The Collapse of Modern Hope
“[H]istoricist thinking and militant practice refuse to consider depression as a cognitive element, and this is a limit, one that today, for example, prevents us from being lucid about understanding […]
Weaponized Nihil
Two invigorating quotes from the diagnostician of the dark circus S.C Hickman: “[I]in our age of nihilism, there is the aesthetic as Nietzsche would advocate: the ability to stylize our […]
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