Explaining Possitopia
In my talk GLOBAL WYRDING & DEEP ADAPTATION I played with the idea that there is a wider spectrum of adaptive options for organizing ourselves than what can be gleaned […]
Tag Archives: postnihil
deep adaptation as post-nihilist praxis?
There is a long line of thinking and writing that frames ideological negation as emancipatory, or as an advancement of cognitive ability towards a more fluid interpretation of experience that, […]
Time, Thought, Critique
Imagine the following scenario. In thirty years time (it might be sooner) whatever portion of the globe you reside on has succumbed to any or all of the disasters climate […]
PINTHW: Philosophy-in-the-wild
[[ from BOGNA KONIOR & YVETTE GRANATA ]] Philosophy-in-the-wild is an ongoing, collaborative, multimedia and multi-platform non-philosophy project, devoted to re-wilding philosophy beyond its institutional (decisionist, androcentric etc) limitations. Conceptually, […]
‘for its apotheosis will be the final catastrophe’
embrace negation || unleash creation “ Protest only serves as the prenatal expression of an attitude that must still give birth to direct action. In order to create new possibilities, […]
Into a Silent Universe
“The world is increasingly unthinkable – a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction.” – Eugene Thacker (2011) […]
The Becoming World and the Age of Ruin
1 It seems clear that a systems approach, most prominent in the earth sciences, has triumphed at a more general level as the new way of envisioning the world. It […]
Critchley on Active Nihilism
“Nihilism is the obvious response to the death of God, by which we mean the collapse of any transcendent basis for morality, the collapse of the value of everything. Just […]
the work that Truth would do
i dig this. basically a succinct bit on post-nihilist orientation from rando Twitter human @iguesssoidk: Lets call nihilism the disbelief in mind-external meaning. The idea is that you will never […]
provisionality and truth
All hedged betting has been halted. We are too damned busy with flesh tactics to type electric words into fabricated scripts. Expect mostly strategic delirium and fragments from here on […]
Under the Sign of Erasure
Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet:
Capitalist realism is about a corrosion of social imagination, and in some ways, that remains the problem: after thirty years of neoliberal…
Praxis for Lost Worlds?
The following excerpts are taken from Woodbine’s NOMOS OF THE EARTH (2014), and offers most of what we deem essential to the spirit of a post-nihilist praxis for deeply adapting and politicking in the […]
Against Non-Philosophical Humanism
From David Roden ~ Against Non-Philosophical Humanism My account of unbound posthumanism (See Roden 2018 and here) draws some methodological inspiration from François Laruelle’s Non-Philosophy, though its point of departure and […]
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 […]
Zack Walsh on Contemplative Praxis
I’m a big fan of The Imperfect Buddha podcast and this particular conversation hits all the right notes for me. In the course of their entirely engaging conversation – taking in […]
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 […]
The Ko’an of Extinction
Xenogothic has written a reply to my last post that demands a response. The need to reply comes from the fact that it hits on philosophical touchstones that I had […]
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 […]
Active Annihilation and the Suicidal Civilization
“Nihilism is the first step in an active annihilation not of reality, but of the human illusions of reality; and of humanity itself as a primal illusion, one that must […]
Lemurian Time Sorcery: Ccru and the Reality Studio
Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet:
The creation of the Universe is attributed to the five-stage action taken by the Absolute One to defend itself against “the many…
