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 […]
Tag Archives: praxis
Badiou’s truth and the fate of bodies
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 […]
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 […]
materialism, posthumanism and the climate policy assemblage
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 […]
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, […]
Thinking Marx Through Harvey
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 […]
Modeling Wicked Problems
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, […]
Strength and Conditioning Guide for Insurgents
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 […]
Climate Activism and The Davos Disease
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 […]
The Importance of Municipal Socialism to Reclaim Cities
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 […]
follow the infrastructure
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 […]
unnerving realities of the Wet’suwet’en
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 […]
Experimental Procedures for New Ontologies
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 […]
Endless Maintenance: Restoring and Stabilizing Material Worlds
“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 […]
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 […]
The Homebrew Industrial Revolution
“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 […]
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 […]
on feral philosophy
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 […]
Towards a Terran Resistance Front?
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” […]
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