The Insistence of Possibles
Towards a Speculative Pragmatism Isabelle Stengers Speculative thinking, as we seek to inherit it, is expressed for the first time, with the greatest accuracy, in Alfred North Whitehead’s exhortation “Philosophy […]
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Accelerationist possibilities in an ecosocialist degrowth scenario
by Jason Hickel “Scaling down less-necessary forms of production is powerful because it enables us to accelerate socially and ecologically necessary forms of production (and innovation!) faster than what can […]
The Earth Multiple – Towards a Climate Pluriverse?
The keynote lecture below was delivered by Dr. Martin Savransky at the STingG Symposium 2024 — an event held on June 19 at the University of Sheffield’s Arts Tower. The […]
Recursive Worlds: Life as Looping Information Through Deep Time
The lecture below was recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series. Antikythera is a research and development institute focused on understanding the […]
Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation
As computation becomes planetary infrastructure, how does its acceleration of hybrid intelligences pose new challenges to fundamental philosophical questions? As machine sensing, machine cognition, machine embodiment co-evolve, how does computation […]
The New Geopolitics Of Green Transition
Is the only path forward for tackling the climate crisis cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean energy investment and infrastructure development? By Bentley Allan | September 9, 2025 (original source: […]
Wasteland Commons and Three Frames of Ecological Nihilism
By Dominic Piacentini | University of Maine The Anthropocene poses new challenges to those who engage in subsistence activities. In Appalachia, as vast acres of land are either seized for […]
Speculation for Worlds to Come
In a time of deep planetary weirding and widespread cultural and personal disorientation speculative thought is no longer just a literary genre or theoretical exercise, but a vital tool for […]
A Foray into the Ecology of Possible Worlds
By Alfredo Lozano 1. An Ecology of Possible Worlds I am often amazed to have access to satellite images with thundering evidence of our species’ capabilities to transform the environment. […]
Counter-Apocalyptica
The world, we are told, is ending. Climate collapse, mass extinction, political disintegration—the Anthropocene is branded as a singular catastrophe, the final act of civilization. But what if the end […]
Why we’re No-thing: and how that brings our relationality into focus
by Theodore Taptiklis With colleagues, I’ve just completed a series of experimental group practices that enable people who don’t know each other — without any special preparation or instruction — […]
Geokinetics and the Metastable Eaarth
“Geokinetics has three aspects: the flow of matter, the fold of elements, and the circulation of planetary fields.”
To be a man!
From D.H. Lawrence:
From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds
“From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds“ C. S. Holling (2004) ABSTRACT: Panarchy focuses on ecological and social systems that change abruptly. Panarchy is the process by which they grow, adapt, […]
Planetary Realism
An opening plenary by Nathan Gardels November 2024 1. The Condition of Planetarity The condition of planetarity is grounded in an awareness that we humans are not the center of […]
How To Understand Power
Planetary Sapience | Benjamin Bratton
JUNE 17, 2021 Benjamin Bratton is a professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, and the director of the terraforming program at the Strelka Institute in […]
showing up for catastrophe
frag_10_2023 The most recent IPCC reports were supposed to put an end to the fictitious debate about the empirical reality of human-made climate change, and instead shift the focus too […]
No Exit
The apotheosis of Corporate-State Apparatus will be our final catastrophe. Capitalism is no longer merely the dominant ideological form, it is a black hole consuming the entire world.
How to Deal with Cosmoecological Perplexities
Introduction In 2020, I got hold of the slim Artscience (2021) by the Malaysian physicist turned writer and speculative designer Clarissa Lee. Subtitled A Curious Education, the unusual format brings together reflections on […]
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