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Superior Forms of Corruption: Xenofeminism ways of building a world from srcaps

January 30, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

From: Lesia Prokopenko Revising the split between the natural and the artificial, xenofeminism offers ways of constructing a viable future from former spaces of violence and inhibition. The Xenofeminist Manifesto is […]

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Bratton, Hester, Ireland

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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Wolf-Meyer

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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Haraway

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

Artificial Intelligence – Limitless Potential vs Liminal Transcendence

November 9, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

January 2020 – Berlin The rapid development of so-called “artificial intelligence” presents both society and culture with increasing challenges on various fronts. When it comes to implementations in the arts, […]

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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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Roden

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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Laruelle

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

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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Moten

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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Pickering, Uncategorized

Experimental Procedures for New Ontologies

December 19, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From Tom Kayzel & Sigmund Bruno Schilpzand. Review essay of: Bruno Latour (ed.), Reset Modernity (2016). Cambridge: MIT Press, 560 pp. In 2013, French philosopher Bruno Latour baffled his growing audience with the […]

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Descola, Harman, Heidegger, Latour, Lovelock, Margulis, Moore, Nietzsche, Sloterdijk

Into a Silent Universe

November 18, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“The world is increasingly unthinkable – a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction.” – Eugene Thacker (2011) […]

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Ballard, Colebrook, Deleuze, Fisher, Marks, Thacker

From Extinction: nine strategies for a left-hand exit

November 18, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“We must not be afraid of collapse. Another end is possible.” — Kanad Chakrabarti The following essay was first published on Noir Materialism. Uhall has important things to say about exit […]

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Uhall

The Becoming World and the Age of Ruin

November 15, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

1 It seems clear that a systems approach, most prominent in the earth sciences, has triumphed at a more general level as the new way of envisioning the world. It […]

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Jennings

Critchley‏ on Active Nihilism

November 15, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“Nihilism is the obvious response to the death of God, by which we mean the collapse of any transcendent basis for morality, the collapse of the value of everything. Just […]

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Critchley

on feral philosophy

November 13, 2019by ||| 7 Comments

Nostalgia overflows me as I write this post. I’m remembering the frenetic exchanges of half-baked ideas and irreverent attitudes that animated the theory-blogging (“blogosphere”) of the early days of what […]

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Bryant

Dispersed Vectors 1

November 7, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

For Gregory Bateson, it is a “pathology of epistemology” (1973) that causes us to overlook our connections to the broader environment, threatening the very existence of humanity and causing the […]

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Bateson, Dean, Deleuze, Guattari

Crisis + Habit = Update

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

INFRA-STRUCTURE is Politics. ‘New media’—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. But what do we miss […]

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Chun

Stuart Kauffman on Complexity & Catalytics and Evolution

October 29, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Professor, MacArthur Fellow and author Stuart Kauffman talks with Jim Rutt about the major themes of his career: complexity, auto-catalytic chemical sets, protocells and the origins of life, the problem […]

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