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Wild Things: A Conversation with Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett

September 3, 2021by ||| 6 Comments

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 […]

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Bennett, Halberstam

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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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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Philosophy’s Abasement

March 19, 2020by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

Can we think an earth and a human such that they would be only what they are—nothing but earth and human — and such that they would be none of […]

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Laruelle, Nancy, Nietzsche

Badiou’s truth and the fate of bodies

March 2, 2020by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

In a recent post over at “Agent Swarm” Terrance Blake linked to a translation by Timothy Lavenz of a section of Badiou’s “Immanence of Truths”. The piece set me thinking […]

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Time, Thought, Critique

February 25, 2020by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

Imagine the following scenario. In thirty years time (it might be sooner) whatever portion of the globe you reside on has succumbed to any or all of the disasters climate […]

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Marx

PINTHW: Philosophy-in-the-wild

January 27, 2020by ||| 4 Comments

[[ from BOGNA KONIOR & YVETTE GRANATA ]]  Philosophy-in-the-wild is an ongoing, collaborative, multimedia and multi-platform non-philosophy project, devoted to re-wilding philosophy beyond its institutional (decisionist, androcentric etc) limitations. Conceptually, […]

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Granata, Konior

Capital Is Dead

December 30, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

In her new book, “Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?” (2019), McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a […]

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Marx, wark

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

Endless Maintenance: Restoring and Stabilizing Material Worlds

December 13, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

“Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction of meaning and also admits into […]

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Thinking Ecographically?

November 22, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

I’m currently reading through a jungle of papers as preparatory work for a possible PhD run (fucking crazy, right?) in my home disciple of anthropology. My focus has been on […]

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Latour, Viveiros de Castro, Young-Leslie

‘for its apotheosis will be the final catastrophe’

November 21, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

embrace negation || unleash creation “ Protest only serves as the prenatal expression of an attitude that must still give birth to direct action. In order to create new possibilities, […]

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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

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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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

Fanged Noumena | pdf

November 14, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

The cyberpositive zero indexes a threshold of phase-transition that is immanent to the system. Download #1 – PDF  Download #2 – PDF “Drives are the functions of nomadic cybernetic systems, […]

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on feral philosophy

November 13, 2019by ||| 7 Comments

Nostalgia overflows me as I write this… I’m remembering the free exchanges of half-baked ideas and irreverent attitudes that animated the theory “blogosphere” in the late 2000s—during the early days […]

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Structuralism and Ontology: An Anthropological Journey

November 7, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Below is a lecture by Philippe Descola hosted by the Department of History and Civilization, at the European University Institute, and organised in collaboration with the Collège de France and […]

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Descola

Towards a Terran Resistance Front?

October 24, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

E-Flux‘s latest installment has a great piece by Sven Lütticken, ‘Toward a Terrestrial‘, riffing on communist history and its possible mutations towards a terrestrial politics. Latour’s theoretic attractor “The Terrestrial” […]

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Latour, Marx, Viveiros de Castro

the residual dilemma

October 22, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

To celebrate that which came after Henri Bergson ushering William James out of the delusion of rationalism: Let us leave out the soul, then, and confront what I just called […]

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