doing without knowledge
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 […]
Tag Archives: sentience
Experimental Procedures for New Ontologies
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 […]
Into a Silent Universe
“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) […]
From Extinction: nine strategies for a left-hand exit
“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 […]
The Becoming World and the Age of Ruin
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 […]
Critchley on Active Nihilism
“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 […]
on feral philosophy
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 of the early days of what was […]
Dispersed Vectors 1
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 […]
Crisis + Habit = Update
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 […]
Stuart Kauffman on Complexity & Catalytics and Evolution
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 […]
Concepts adequate to the times?
From beautiful mind of Mckenzie Wark: Now that the world most of us have known is ending, it might be time to pay more attention to the experience of those […]
The Upside of Accepting Collapse?
The Benefits of Accepting the Possibility of Environmental Collapse and Human Extinction By John Bell British Professor of Sustainability Leadership, Jem Bendell, has recently published a thoughtful review of the […]
Requiem for the Abyss
From the mindings of S.C Hickman: Society—an inferno of saviors! —Emile Cioran No one reads the decadents much anymore, maybe it is because we have moved the world into a […]
The Secular Fanaticism of Indifference
“Maybe we need an indifferent politics, as well. A politics that no longer seeks to erase, exclude, and shame the opposition into hyperconformity. Without oppositional thinking, without contrarian thought we […]
Dead Subjects: On Heretical Defiance and Fabricated Philosophy
“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings
Mad Speculations of Becoming
The question remains one of how exactly the hallucinatory activity of cognition can best adapt to the black chaotic assemblages of contemporary forces. Excerpts from Ben Woodard’s “Mad Speculation and […]
Promethean and Posthuman Improvisation and Time
Dr David Roden has worked for the Open University as a lecturer and associate lecturer. His published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the […]
Introducing Ecobehavioral Design
Introducing Ecobehavioral Design by Mark James, PhD(c) Behavior change can be bewilderingly difficult to achieve, and just trying can quickly become the work of the weary. However, I submit, much […]
“Is reality itself.. impenetrable?” – Afterthoughts on Žižek/Harman debate
SCI-Arc invites you to take a closer look at a debate between two philosophers with a particular influence on art and culture. What about this event should interest an artist, […]
Posthumanism for the Wounded, the Unknowing & the Dependent
Abstract: ‘We don’t live in a post-facts world, nor should we want to. Human beings need to be recognised, in their states of precarity and oppression, as being human before […]
