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The Infinite Sales Bay of the Universe

October 4, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

An essay by philosopher Amy Ireland. Text source here. Originally published in the exhibition catalogue for Andre Škufca’s Black Market, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, 2020. “You’re absolutely right. […]

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Ireland

Geokinetics and the Metastable Eaarth

April 23, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

“Geokinetics has three aspects: the flow of matter, the fold of elements, and the circulation of planetary fields.”

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Nail

Reading Group: ‘A World of Many Worlds’ (2018)

April 22, 2021by ||| 4 Comments

A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science’s philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds.

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Stengers, Strathern, Viveiros de Castro

For A Vernacular Of The Possible?

February 9, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

Fragments from Sven Lütticken’s new essay E-FLUX Journal #115 – February 2021: In the 1970s, the Marxist theorist Raymond Williams warned against treating “feudal culture” or “bourgeois culture” as monolithic blocs […]

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Agamben, Aristotle, Haraway, Hegel, Kelly, Williams

Spinoza – A Philosopher for Our Time?

February 2, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. One of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the […]

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Spinoza

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

Affect & Vulnerability: Spinoza & Deleuze on Negativity

January 29, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

The lecture below responds to criticisms that Spinoza cannot account for vulnerability since he does not have a strong enough conception of negativity that could account for loss and mourning. […]

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Butler, Deleuze, Spinoza, Uncategorized

The Way Of The Violent Stars (excerpts)

January 12, 2021by ||| 5 Comments

To be clear, I would never identify as an “anarcho-primitivist,” but there is much in the discourses and methods of those who do, and who have contributed greatly to ecological […]

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Collapse Patchworks: A Theory

December 23, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Originally published on THE LIBERTARIAN IDEAL: Collapse Patchworks: A Theory by Chris Shaw The complexity of modern industrial, social and organisational flows presents the headlong perception of dromological speed[1]. As […]

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Shaw

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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Wakefield

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

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

Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordances

September 24, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordancesby Manuel Heras-Escribano (June 2020) Affordances, or the possibilities for acting in our environments, are pervasive in everyday life. We are constantly surrounded by them: […]

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Baudrillard & Fatal Strategies

August 26, 2020by ||| 7 Comments

This video is 8th in the 8-part video lecture series, The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1993). I. The task of creating a life with the “self […]

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Baudrillard

Wittgenstein and The Limits of Thought

September 6, 2018by ||| 25 Comments

Theory Thursdays anyone? Below is an introduction to the life, work, and legacy of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. There is little doubt that he was a towering figure of the […]

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Wittgenstein

Ecological Realism as Ontographic Sincerity

September 6, 2018by ||| 19 Comments

Below are some thoughts I had while reflecting on a new paper from Katrina Kolozova available here. This passage in particular set off an avalanche of pondering: In order to circumvent the […]

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Heidegger, Kolozova, Laruelle, Marx

What is the Philosophy of Movement? // Thomas Nail

August 29, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

I’m very much looking forward to Thomas Nail‘s new book Being and Motion (out from Oxford this winter) outlining an ontography and philosophical history of movement. Nothing could be more […]

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Nail

Ray Brassier: Marx & Philosophy

August 28, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

RAY BRASSIER: MARX & PHILOSOPHY The New Centre for Research & Practice – Streamed live on Jan 20, 2018 DESCRIPTION: Marx’s analysis of capital continues to haunt contemporary theoretical discourse. As […]

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Brassier, Marx, Uncategorized

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