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Collapse Patchworks: A Theory

December 23, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Originally published on THE LIBERTARIAN IDEAL: Collapse Patchworks: A Theory by Chris Shaw The complexity of modern industrial, social and organisational flows presents the headlong perception of dromological speed[1]. As […]

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Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

December 22, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling: […]

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seduction of a cyborg

December 14, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1994.

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Complicity at the Edge of Extinction

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“Techno-optimism is much worse than techno-pessimism”

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Anthropocene Hubris

November 30, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Anthropocene Hubris by Stephanie Wakefield source: E-FLUX Precarious Entanglement In the Anthropocene—the current terminal period of neoliberal capitalism marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and social-political unraveling—calls to rethink human […]

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Staying with the Trouble: Haraway on Multispecies Cosmopolitics

November 27, 2020by dmf 3 Comments

“After centuries of genocides, environmental destruction and its unevenly distributed suffering… Haraway suggests that humans turn to SF – string figures, science fiction, speculative fabulation, speculative feminism – as mechanisms for envisioning the future.”

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WyrdPatchworks 5

November 27, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

In the wake of Covid-19 and its convulsions that have rendered ever more salient a global system dependent on the warp and weft of global supply chains and logistical systems, […]

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Uhall

Pandaemic Speculations: A Multilogue

November 23, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

From AGOSTO FOUNDATION: 1. In what way does the current COVID-19 epidemic restructure the relationship between domesticity and wilderness? Borbála Soós: A virus is not strictly speaking alive, however it cannot grow or […]

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Sunny Nihilism?

November 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

[ Source: here] ‘Since discovering I’m worthless my life has felt precious’ Nihilism is back in fashion, and for younger generations the idea that existence is meaningless is cause for […]

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Non-Philosophy and Speculative Posthumanism

November 5, 2020by ||| 3 Comments

“a biomorphic posthumanism is no longer about the human relation to the future… It is the insurgency of an Outside…” @turingcop [cc: @bognamk]

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Alien Agency: Material Agency, Art, Experimental Life.

October 31, 2020by dmf 1 Comment

Below is a free-form conversation between world-renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering and Chris Salter on the topic of material agency, performance, art and experimental practices within the realm of […]

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Non-Philosophy with John Ó Maoilearca

October 27, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Laruelle’s work navigates an interesting paradox. On the one hand it can be incredibly straightforward, perhaps more so for those who have not been indoctrinated into philosophical thought. On the […]

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The Collapse of Change: A View from the Future

October 24, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

The ship’s log of Novo Potosi is an exploration of the future looking backward to recent Latin American history. Almost like an anthropology of the future, Potosi explores a dystopian […]

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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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A field guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction

October 22, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. Its scale defies comprehension, and conceals its true nature – not as one gigantic issue, but as many. In order […]

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Explaining Possitopia

October 20, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

In my talk GLOBAL WYRDING & DEEP ADAPTATION I played with the idea that there is a wider spectrum of adaptive options for organizing ourselves than what can be gleaned […]

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Bright Power, Dark Peace

October 16, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Bright Power, Dark Peace By Erik Reece Robinson Jeffers and the hope of human extinction From the September 2020 issue | Download PDF On a clear October day, I walked to […]

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Paul Kingsnorth on Dark Ecology

October 9, 2020by ||| 7 Comments

Originally Published in Orion Magazine (2012): “Take the only tree that’s left,Stuff it up the hole in your culture.” —Leonard Cohen “Retreat to the desert, and fight.” —D. H. Lawrence […]

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The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman

September 4, 2020by ||| 2 Comments

The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures after Property and Possession seeks to interrogate the relation between race, sexuality, and juridical and theological ideas of self-possession, often evidenced by the couplet of […]

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doing without knowledge

January 16, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

That ‘knowledge is power’ is rarely disputed by anyone. Literacy has established linguistic semiotics as a dominant coping-capacity and mediator of perception that allows us to plan, control and manipulate […]

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