The Insistence of Possibles
Towards a Speculative Pragmatism Isabelle Stengers Speculative thinking, as we seek to inherit it, is expressed for the first time, with the greatest accuracy, in Alfred North Whitehead’s exhortation “Philosophy […]
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Recursive Worlds: Life as Looping Information Through Deep Time
The lecture below was recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series. Antikythera is a research and development institute focused on understanding the […]
Agentic Collapse
by Chris Shaw | orginally published at Collapse Patchworks Modernity, equality and democracy are viruses, parasitical assemblages atop a decaying civilisational corpse. Their corollaries of identity and universality are appendages […]
The Adventure of Nihilism: Ray Brassier, ‘Nihil Unbound’
Review of Ray Brassier’s Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction, for Parallax 14:4 (2008), by Maya B. Kronic Perhaps familiarity has rendered ‘nihilism’ a toothless philosopheme, but philosophers themselves have lent a hand in its […]
Matter, affect, life: A Whiteheadian intervention into ‘more-than-human’ geographies
by Tom Roberts ABSTRACT: Geographic theorisations of the ‘non-’ or ‘more-than-human’ continue to play a significant role in disrupting anthropocentrism within the humanities and social sciences. This article explores how […]
Why we’re No-thing: and how that brings our relationality into focus
by Theodore Taptiklis With colleagues, I’ve just completed a series of experimental group practices that enable people who don’t know each other — without any special preparation or instruction — […]
How Am I Called Upon by the Planet?
By Lukáš Likavčan | ŠUM #23 Read from a distant planet, the majuscule script [Majuskel-Schrift] of our earthly existence would perhaps seduce the reader to the conclusion that the earth […]
To be a man!
From D.H. Lawrence:
Being Truly Wrong: Enlightened Nihilism or Unbound Naturalism?
Patrick Gamez | University of Notre Dame Abstract I present an account of nihilism, following Foucault and Nietzsche, as a sort of colonization of our thinking by a religious form […]
PROTOCOLS FOR THE PHASE TRANSITION
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 […]
From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds
“From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds“ C. S. Holling (2004) ABSTRACT: Panarchy focuses on ecological and social systems that change abruptly. Panarchy is the process by which they grow, adapt, […]
Planetary Realism
An opening plenary by Nathan Gardels November 2024 1. The Condition of Planetarity The condition of planetarity is grounded in an awareness that we humans are not the center of […]
Planetary Sapience | Benjamin Bratton
JUNE 17, 2021 Benjamin Bratton is a professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, and the director of the terraforming program at the Strelka Institute in […]
Wild Things: A Conversation with Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett
Below Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett meet in a vibratory encounter designed not to explain or judge but to dilate, to influence, and to disorder. They speak of desire and […]
Superior Forms of Corruption: Xenofeminism ways of building a world from srcaps
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 […]
Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age
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: […]
Anthropocene Hubris
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 […]
Staying with the Trouble: Haraway on Multispecies Cosmopolitics
“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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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, […]
Artificial Intelligence – Limitless Potential vs Liminal Transcendence
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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