Modeling Wicked Problems
Most Anthropocene concerns are “wicked problems,” complex problems that defy a single answer and may never be solved definitively. They involve highly complicated systems that are impossible to fully know, […]
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David Harvey on Infrastructure, Smart Cities, and Sharing Economics
On November 14, 2016 — as part of the Barcelona Initiative for Technological Sovereignty (BITS) — David Harvey sat down with Evgeny Morozov to discuss Trump’s election and what it means for neoliberalism and infrastructure; as […]
Global Weirding & Deep Adaptation
Below is the revised and expanded text version a talk given during Wyrd/Patchwork #2, at Punctum in Prague on 26 October 2018. The session was organized by the folks at […]
Giant Power: Technology, Energy, and the Beginnings of Post-Truth America
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 […]
Babette Babich | Life is a Test: On Ivan Illich
Below American philosopher Babette Babich talks about Ivan Illich’s political philosophy of being human. Babich is known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for […]
The Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity
Hickman with another brilliant set of codes to disrupt the current matrix: “This distancing of world, subject, and object would form the basis of our current secular culture and civilization […]
The Poememenon: Form as Occult Technology | Amy Ireland
“Hyperstition is the real truth of philosophy—if not the basic, horrific form of reality itself” – Amy Ireland The folks at Urbanomic regularly put out compelling essays that are both timely and […]
The A.I Cargo Cult | Kevin Kelly
The Myth of a Superhuman A.I By Kevin Kelly I’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our […]
The Anthropocene and the End of Postmodernism
In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard famously described the coming age of postmodernism as a the dissolution of grand narratives, that is, overarching schemes or horizons […]
S.C Hickman on The Machinic Unconscious
[Bernard Stiegler] relates that the automated processes implemented by algorithmic governmentality to Félix Guattari’s concepts of molecular machinic unconscious and machinic enslavement. The example used by Guattari for machinic enslavement […]
parabiosis: neurolibidinal induction complex
Bruno Latour | Ecologizing the Future
Notes towards an emancipatory ecologistics? * What would be required of us cognitively, technically, and practically in our attempts to alter our ways of existing for more adaptive modes? Bruno Latour, […]
Speculative Futures: Shaviro, Galloway & Thacker
“It’s a speculative accelerated realist bootleg throwdown! This episode features STEVEN SHAVIRO and ALEXANDER GALLOWAY discussing their recently published books THE UNIVERSE OF THINGS: ON SPECULATIVE REALISM and LARUELLE: AGAINST […]
Wisconsin Mining Standoff w/ Winona LaDuke
“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 […]
A Future That Doesn’t Work? Natalie Bennett & Nick Srnicek
“Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for […]
Transformation without Apocalypse (?) Rob Nixon
Rob’s talk starts around 6:55 if like me you can do without the pipedreamer intro See also: Slow Violence and The Environmentalism of the Poor Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live […]
Naomi Klein is half right…
Here in this interview she rightly characterizes our escalating human-global-heating-mass-death as “an existential crisis for the human species, a clear and present danger to civilization, a death sentence for the […]
Process Ontology of Disaster Capitalism? Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti is a philosopher and feminist theoretician who holds Italian and Australian citizenship – born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received degrees from the Australian […]
Agonism, Pluralism, and Contemporary Capitalism
An Interview with William E. Connolly William E. Connolly is a political theorist known for his work on democracy and pluralism and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins […]
Designing the Apocalypse: On the Limits of Cartography
Originally posted on Unlimited Dream Company ('Despairing at last, I decided to die' -J.G. Ballard):
I was thinking of forwarding a comment to Adam Robbert’s post at knowledge-ecology.com (Earth’s Aesthetics: Knowledge…
