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Ben Woodard on Pessimism and Pragmatism
Ben Woodard at the leading edge of the post-nihilst turn: “[P]essimism can provide a certain form of useful clarity (not unlike Justine’s comportment in von Trier’s Melancholia). We must pass through...
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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 National...
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Roden on the Posthuman & the Transhuman
An excellent and compact outline of some differences between posthumanism and transhumanism from David Roden here: Posthumanists may, but need not, claim that humans are becoming more intertwined with...
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Bodily Natures – An Interview with Stacy Alaimo
From New Books in Critical Theory: In her book, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010), Stacy Alaimo approaches the concepts of “science,...
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Staring Into the Abyss
//www.onthemedia.org/widgets/ondemand_player/#file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.onthemedia.org%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F401540%2F;containerClass=onthemedia Radiolab HOST Brooke Gladstone follows up on her conversation...
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Lost Worlds
A (non)credo for post-nihilist praxis from WOODBINE (excerpts): Every vision of the future is one of catastrophe, of climate apocalypse or zombie hordes, of the digitalization of all life or the total...
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Speculative Futures: Shaviro, Galloway & Thacker
http://bernardg.com/sites/default/files/audio/Cult_Tech_015_Shaviro_Galloway.mp3 “It’s a speculative accelerated realist bootleg throwdown! This episode features STEVEN SHAVIRO and ALEXANDER GALLOWAY...
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Elizabeth Grosz on the appeal of Stoicism
From “Ontogenesis and the Ethics of Becoming“: KY: In terms of the Stoics, how might their approach to “dying well” offer us some resources for thinking amidst our current scene of ecological...
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toward an encourageMental-manipulation
Dogen Zenji Dogen relates the words of an old Zen master: “Formerly I used to hit sleeping monks so hard that my fist just about broke. Now I am old and weak, so I can’t hit them hard enough....
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Being, Background, Pluripolitics
“We start from the One, rather than arriving at it. We start from the One, which is to say that if we go anywhere, it will be toward the World, toward Being.” -François Laruelle I’ve often pondered...
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