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 […]
Tag Archives: praxis
The Anthropocene and the Apocalypse: from the ecological to the ecologistical
The question of ecological ethics and politics has been raised once again. I occasionally fear that our images of ecology and politics remain stills rather than cinematic motion pictures. This […]
Ethics and Politics in the Anthropocene?
Much has been made lately of the claim that we have entered a new geologic epoch provocatively termed the ‘Anthropocene’. The gist of the claim is that humans have intervened […]
The Persistence of Belief
The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from […]
Faith In The Empty Space Of God
The Undeath of God. God is dead: If there is a more paradigmatic, concise, and ecstatic expression of nihilism it has yet to be uttered. God is dead: there are […]
The Posthuman Predicament: Affect, Power and Ethics – Rosi Braidotti
Interesting talk on Spinoza vs Hegel, Zizek is a court-jester but certainly not an “idiot” and while I think he goes too far by projecting a kind of alienation into […]
Notes for Living with the Elements – David Kleinberg-Levin
David Kleinberg-Levin obtained a Ph.D. Columbia University and is Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University. He taught in the Humanities Department at MIT from 1968 until 1972, when he joined the […]
Michel Foucault Beyond Good and Evil
by director David Stewart, 1993 Related articles Michel Foucault’s Political Thought (2013) (foucaultnews.com) Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault 1971 debate: On Human Nature (syntheticzero.net) John Searle on Foucault and the […]
Massive Attack vs Adam Curtis – ‘Britain today is a Twee Playpen’
Great find. Two very interesting fellas doing some dark fancy with the video machines. WATCH.
Bracha Ettinger: Self-fragilize Your Self
WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN? An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists. JAPAN SYNDROME — AMSTERDAM VERSION: brought together anarcho-urbanist, feminist psychoanalytic, cinematic, sci-fi, self-organizing, archival, and electro […]
Alva Noe on “Concepts and Practical Knowledge”
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsIysQ_vQpY 9th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication “Perception and Concepts” see also: http://newbooksinphilosophy.com/2012/12/14/alva-noe-varieties-of-presence-harvard-up-2012/
Sex in the (Anthropocene) City
Claire Colebrook is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, and author of 11 books and numerous articles on Ethics, Deleuze, Milton, Evil in literary history […]
Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism – David Harvey
AUDIO: David Harvey ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ In this lecture drawing on his new ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ David Harvey will explore the way capital […]
Blasting the Canon
Blasting the Canon, Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies All hail Eileen Joy and her wondrous and ever evolving DIY rhizome Punctum productions this time bringing us the latest from Anarchist […]
Brutal Simplifiers
Richard Sennett’s lecture “Brutal Simplifiers” at the Haus der Kulturen der Wel: BODYBITS Opening (1/5), http://www.hkw.de/en/
Infrastructure, Infra-politics
Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]
Anthropology, Architecture, Archaeology, Art
In the video below preeminent anthropologist and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen Tim Ingold tries to bring the “4 A’s” [anthropology, architecture, archaeology, and art] together, […]
The Decline and Fall of Work
Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines. After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1956, he participated in […]
Live From Deathrow: REACH Coalition
Prof. Lisa Guenther (one of the NewAPPS crew) has been sharing some of her work (both directly with/in the community and in reflection) in an ongoing series of posts that […]
The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001)
It is through action and interaction within practices that mind, rationality and knowledge are constituted and social life is organized, reproduced and transformed. During the past two decades, practice theory […]
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