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The Anthropocene and the Apocalypse: from the ecological to the ecologistical

September 19, 2013by Arran Crawford 10 Comments

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 […]

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Cioran

Ethics and Politics in the Anthropocene?

September 18, 2013by ||| 11 Comments

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 […]

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Bryant, Morton

The Persistence of Belief

September 17, 2013by Arran Crawford 6 Comments

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 […]

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Bakker, Brassier, Churchland, Dawkins, Dewey, Kant

Faith In The Empty Space Of God

September 13, 2013by Arran Crawford 4 Comments

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 […]

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Nancy, Nietzsche, Vattimo

The Posthuman Predicament: Affect, Power and Ethics – Rosi Braidotti

July 18, 2013by dmf 4 Comments

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 […]

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Braidotti

Notes for Living with the Elements – David Kleinberg-Levin

July 16, 2013by dmf 2 Comments

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 […]

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Merleau-Ponty

Michel Foucault Beyond Good and Evil

July 13, 2013by dmf 4 Comments

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 […]

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Foucault

Massive Attack vs Adam Curtis – ‘Britain today is a Twee Playpen’

July 11, 2013by ||| 1 Comment

Great find. Two very interesting fellas doing some dark fancy with the video machines. WATCH.

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Curtis

Bracha Ettinger: Self-fragilize Your Self

July 10, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

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 […]

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Ettinger, Whitman

Alva Noe on “Concepts and Practical Knowledge”

July 2, 2013by dmf 1 Comment

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/

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Noë

Sex in the (Anthropocene) City

July 1, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

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 […]

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Colebrook

Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism – David Harvey

June 27, 2013by dmf 3 Comments

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 […]

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Harvey

Blasting the Canon

June 25, 2013by dmf 2 Comments

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 […]

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Joy

Brutal Simplifiers

June 25, 2013by dmf 3 Comments

Richard Sennett’s lecture “Brutal Simplifiers” at the Haus der Kulturen der Wel: BODYBITS Opening (1/5), http://www.hkw.de/en/

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Sennett

Infrastructure, Infra-politics

June 24, 2013by ||| 8 Comments

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, […]

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Foucault, Heidegger, Marx, Mitropoulos

Anthropology, Architecture, Archaeology, Art

June 22, 2013by ||| 6 Comments

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, […]

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Ingold

The Decline and Fall of Work

June 21, 2013by dmf 6 Comments

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 […]

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Vaneigem

Live From Deathrow: REACH Coalition

June 20, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

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 […]

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Merleau-Ponty

The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001)

June 20, 2013by ||| 2 Comments

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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Bourdieu, Derrida, Heidegger, Marx, Wittgenstein

Only An Expert

June 19, 2013by dmf 3 Comments

The song “Only an Expert” was released as a 12″ vinyl single on May 18, 2010 by Laurie Anderson, an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8t29gD8J8 Initially trained […]

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