Below are fragments from Matt Wiedmann‘s astonishingly sober and brilliantly savage takedown of the online Accelerationist orgy of detached cynicism and obfuscation perpetrated by the privileged, misanthrope, neo-liberalized hordes of theory-kids. […]
|| patchwork as programmatic practicality || there is much to be said of the weirding and corrosiveness liberty of deterritorializing, while an equal amount is to be done about the […]
Wholesome Design For Wicked Problems by Rob Knapp Problem: One often regards difficulties or issues as problems to be solved, but one must beware the implication that the first step […]
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning by Horst W., J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber Policy Sciences Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jun., 1973), pp. 155-169 Abstract: The search for scientific […]
“Maybe we need an indifferent politics, as well. A politics that no longer seeks to erase, exclude, and shame the opposition into hyperconformity. Without oppositional thinking, without contrarian thought we […]
“there are worlds to be made, forms of life made to grow apart from what reigns, including by salvaging what can be salvaged from the present state of things, and on the other, there is the imperative to attack, to simply destroy the world of capital.”
How Many Have we Lost Due to Our Failure to Treat them as Comrades? Hyphen_ “The thing that men and women need to do is stick together / Progressions can’t be […]
The following builds on points made by Michael in “Global Wyrding and Deeply Adaptive Patchworking“: As long as humans have been gathering and cooperating in relatively stable sedentary complexes, issues […]
Below is the revised and expanded text version a talk given during Wyrd/Patchwork #2, at Punctum in Prague on 26 October 2018. The session was organized by the folks at […]
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 […]
Below American philosopher Babette Babich talks about Ivan Illich’s political philosophy of being human. Babich is known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for […]
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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The activist, whose phantom subject consciousness is defined by its vain wounds, collects injuries by throwing its body at a motionless objectivity, these are my chains, see how they chafe, this […]
As a grad student in anthropology it was made very clear to me that Carlos Castaneda was undoubtedly a fraud as an ethnographer (see here), as Hickman alludes to, but […]
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism (PDF) by Claire Colebrook Necessary reading for our purposes here: “Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism: this awful portmanteau word, in all its ungainly confusion, captures something crucial about the present. In the essay […]
(worldmap: command and control) Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist […]
Dogen Zenji Dogen relates the words of an old Zen master: “Formerly I used to hit sleeping monks so hard that my fist just about broke. Now I am old […]
The world is facing its worst refugee crisis since World War II [JURIST report]. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [official website] on Thursday warned [UN Report] of […]
Wild Ecologies: Speculative Anarchism & Guattari’s Three Ecologies READING GROUP In the first of what we hope to be a series of group readings, Wild Ecologies encourages participants to read Felix […]
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