Anti-depressive Politics
A new Prometheus need not take the form of the ‘Modern Prince’, the party, if the latter is regarded as a commanding height and centre supervenient on any other council, […]
Tag Archives: praxis
Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown, Nafeez Ahmed
Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown, Nafeez Ahmed http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown “A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale […]
Accelerationism, Desire and Madness
Last night at the Glasgow School of Art Mark Fisher took the stage to discuss accelerationism. I have to say that up until last night I had given only a passing interest […]
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 Paul Rabinow is Professor […]
Living in Ruins, Anna Tsing
PART ONE (OF 4) – go to YouTube for the rest UC Santa Cruz anthropologist Anna Tsing is one of six international scholars to win a $5 million Niels Bohr Professorship […]
Vibrant Matter & the Political Economy of Life
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCaku4N0SM http://www.thomaslemkeweb.de/biografie-engl.htm
The Vacuousness of “Society” – Marilyn Strathern
“Taking care of a concept: anthropological reflections on the assisted society: The lecture questions both what might be taken for granted in an appeal to society and what it then […]
Agonism, Pluralism, and Contemporary Capitalism
An Interview with William E. Connolly William E. Connolly is a political theorist known for his work on democracy and pluralism and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins […]
Designing the Apocalypse: On the Limits of Cartography
Originally posted on Unlimited Dream Company ('Despairing at last, I decided to die' -J.G. Ballard):
I was thinking of forwarding a comment to Adam Robbert’s post at knowledge-ecology.com (Earth’s Aesthetics: Knowledge…
Worlding with the Body
Worlding with the Body link above to anthropod-cast on a panel of speakers as outlined @ http://mohacska.org/2013/10/03/worlding-with-the-body/ At the November 2013 American Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago the session entitled “Worlding […]
Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism?
Who’s afraid of ruins? Disaster Communism? Jodi Dean points us to: http://libcom.org/blog/whos-afraid-ruins-18022014 To speak of disaster communism is not to express a preference for a post-apocalyptic style. It is a […]
Rosenthal on Ontology, Pluralism and Pragmatism
Rosenthal, Sandra B. (2005) ‘The Ontological Grounding of Diversity: A Pragmatic Overview’ in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: The uprootedness of experience from its ontological embeddedness in a natural world […]
Being, Background, Pluripolitics
“We start from the One, rather than arriving at it. We start from the One, which is to say that if we go anywhere, it will be toward the World, […]
Isabelle Stengers – The Cosmopolitical Proposal (pdf)
From Isabelle Stengers’ ‘The Cosmopolitical Proposal’ (pdf): How can I present a proposal intended not to say what is, or what ought to be, but to provoke thought; one that […]
Ranciere, Politics and Art – Tina Chanter
Ranciere, Politics and Art, by Tina Chanter Professor Tina Chanter is Head of School of Humanities at Kingston University, London. Her research currently focuses on questions of aesthetics and politics. Recent […]
Isabelle Stengers on Prototypes
” The reliability of …science’s results is relative to experimentally purified, well controlled laboratory experiments. And competent objections are competent only with regards to such controlled environments. Which means that […]
What is a Minor Literature? Deleuze&Guattari
pdf get it while it lasts… ‘What is a Minor Literature?‘,by Deleuze & Guattari Deleuze and Guattari outline the three characterizing elements of a ‘minor literature’: 1) the deterritorializations of a […]
Judith Butler on ‘Precarious Life: The Obligations of Proximity’ (1/7)
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has had a significant influence on the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, philosophy, […]
The black bloc, the spectacle and the therapy of violence
A mass of black clad bodies move through a thick haze, smoke or tear-gas coagulating the air. Incendiary flashes in the dark; sparks illuminating nothing of the masked faces. […]
Nature Poetics and Ecological Praxis
With regards to my last post Jeremy at Struggles Forever has provided an important reminder: [T]he conception of Nature as a container, in my opinion, conveys the wrong message. Containers delimit and […]
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