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Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance

January 5, 2022by ||| 1 Comment

By Craig Collins [original source] As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust.  But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase. Growth-less capitalism turns catabolic.  The […]

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Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution

September 28, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

From the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories, August 29th, 2021. Published in Ill Will: Preface For four years, the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories […]

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For A Vernacular Of The Possible?

February 9, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

Fragments from Sven Lütticken’s new essay E-FLUX Journal #115 – February 2021: In the 1970s, the Marxist theorist Raymond Williams warned against treating “feudal culture” or “bourgeois culture” as monolithic blocs […]

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Agamben, Aristotle, Haraway, Hegel, Kelly, Williams

Resisting the Coming Barbarism

December 17, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Isabelle Stengers’ book, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism (2015), is available for free as a .pdf download here. Below is an official description of the book: There has […]

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Stengers

PROTOCOLS FOR THE PHASE TRANSITION

October 23, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

From THE TERRAFORMING: As new urgencies surface and new territories are defined, new alliances must be built. Inspired by the typology of starling murmuration, A.S.T. (Diann Bauer, Felice Grodin, Patricia […]

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Terraforming

follow the infrastructure

January 10, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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unnerving realities of the Wet’suwet’en

January 7, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

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 […]

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Melancholy of Resistance (pdf)

November 27, 2019by ||| 5 Comments

“Catastrophe! Of course! Last judgement! Horseshit! It’s you that are the catastrophe, you’re the bloody last judgement, your feet don’t even touch the ground, you bunch of sleepwalkers.” ― László […]

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Krasznahorkai

Thinking Ecographically?

November 22, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

I’m currently reading through a jungle of papers as preparatory work for a possible PhD run (fucking crazy, right?) in my home disciple of anthropology. My focus has been on […]

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Latour, Viveiros de Castro, Young-Leslie

To Destitute The World?

March 5, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

“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.”

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Deleuze, Marx, Uncategorized

The Yellow Vests

December 27, 2018by Patrick jennings 42 Comments

The reaction by one of France’s “Yellow Vests” to Macron’s about face was as follows: “We have put Macron on one knee. Now he must fall.” This from a middle […]

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Hegel, Uncategorized

Giant Power: Technology, Energy, and the Beginnings of Post-Truth America

October 31, 2018by ||| 4 Comments

Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, presenting at the Mahindra Center on October 18, 2017: Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. She […]

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Oreskes

“Action relies on courage, not hope.”

October 21, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

From October 9, 2018 The New Republic: The Case for Climate Pessimism By EMILY ATKIN Some climate change activists oppose doom-and-gloom rhetoric. They know that, if we don’t reduce greenhouse gas […]

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How to Be an Anticapitalist Today | Eric Wright

June 19, 2018by ||| 6 Comments

“Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.” For many people the idea of anticapitalism seems ridiculous. After all, capitalist firms have brought us […]

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Weaponized Nihil

July 21, 2017by ||| 2 Comments

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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Hickman, Nietzsche

Leviathan Rots | Vincent Garton

April 29, 2017by ||| 3 Comments

Vincent Garton PhD studies history and political theory at Cambridge, and advocates what he and some of the fun people on the internets are calling “Unconditional Accelerationism“. In a recent […]

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Garton, Hobbes, Land

Gramsci Is Dead – richard day

December 24, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.” – Italo Calvino, ‘Invisible Cities’ PDF VERSION: […]

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Abolish Columbus Day – Gregg Deal

October 7, 2014by dmf 2 Comments

http://greggdeal.com/ABOLISHCOLUMBUSDAY http://decolonization.org

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Wisconsin Mining Standoff w/ Winona LaDuke

October 7, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“Have you heard about the Wisconsin Mining Standoff? The GTac mining proposal? What about the Enbridge pipeline expansion? guest host Rebecca Kemble was joined by Wisconsin’s 29th Senate District Candidate Paul DeMain, Harvard educated […]

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Dilip Gaonkar – Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude

October 6, 2014by ||| 1 Comment

AFTER THE FICTIONS: Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude By Dilip Gaonkar People do not riot every day, but they have rioted often enough in the past, especially since […]

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