The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
“History is not a race with a finish line — and if we make it one, it’s a game we will lose. Instead, history ought to be seen as a […]
“History is not a race with a finish line — and if we make it one, it’s a game we will lose. Instead, history ought to be seen as a […]
In a recent post over at “Agent Swarm” Terrance Blake linked to a translation by Timothy Lavenz of a section of Badiou’s “Immanence of Truths”. The piece set me thinking […]
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 […]
Re-assembling climate change policy: materialism, posthumanism and the policy assemblage Nick J Fox & Pam Alldred Abstract: National and international policy-makers have addressed threats to environmental sustainability from climate change […]
[[ 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, […]
I like David Harvey. I “liked” the video of his Amsterdam talk, even before I listened to it. I liked it mostly out of an habitual attraction to anything […]
Most Anthropocene concerns are “wicked problems,” complex problems that defy a single answer and may never be solved definitively. They involve highly complicated systems that are impossible to fully know, […]
From the rad beauties at INHABIT: From Chile to Beirut, from Paris to New York, we experience the insane demands placed on us by this world in the most intimate […]
As the economic “elites” gather to collude to maintain the extinction stack by undermining democracy and consolidating infrastructural power, many of us are preparing for a much different reckoning. The […]
DAVID HARVEY / THE IMPORTANCE OF MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM TO RECLAIM CITIES Keynote Speech at The Future is Public: Democratic Ownership of the Economy Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, December 4, 2019: David […]
In this first post in a new series seeking to interrogate the political ecology infrastructures we feature Deborah Cowen’s ‘Following the infrastructures of empire’ (2019). In her paper, Cowen asks […]
There are times I find it difficult to express publicly in certain spheres of attention the work I do within social movements as an organizer. Often, in predominantly Caucasian and […]
From Tom Kayzel & Sigmund Bruno Schilpzand. Review essay of: Bruno Latour (ed.), Reset Modernity (2016). Cambridge: MIT Press, 560 pp. In 2013, French philosopher Bruno Latour baffled his growing audience with the […]
“Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction of meaning and also admits into […]
“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 […]
“Localized, small‐scale economies are the rats in the dinosaurs’ nests.” || Kevin Carson Below is Kevin Carson’s wide-ranging and extensively researched treatise on how innovations in social relations and the […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Nostalgia overflows me as I write this… I’m remembering the free exchanges of half-baked ideas and irreverent attitudes that animated the theory “blogosphere” in the late 2000s—during the early days […]
E-Flux‘s latest installment has a great piece by Sven Lütticken, ‘Toward a Terrestrial‘, riffing on communist history and its possible mutations towards a terrestrial politics. Latour’s theoretic attractor “The Terrestrial” […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.