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‘Happiness is statistically abnormal’: happiness after nihilism
Happiness is a kind of madness Look around you. Examine the world you live in. Give it a cursory glance. How could you not conclude that happiness is a delusional state? In the abstract to a 1992 paper...
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Generation Todestrieb
My entire generation is traumatised by something that hasn’t happened yet. Shaking and sleeplessness, autoimmolatory alcoholism, fits of violent rage and sobbing breakdowns, weeks of self-imposed...
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The Catastrophic and the Post-apocalyptic
The present is filled with catastrophe and apocalypticism. A certain phrase has been deployed and redeployed in summarising the condition we find ourselves in: it is easier to imagine the end of the...
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Faith In The Empty Space Of God
The Undeath of God. God is dead: If there is a more paradigmatic, concise, and ecstatic expression of nihilism it has yet to be uttered. God is dead: there are no transcendent values, no eternal...
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Nature Poetics and Ecological Praxis
With regards to my last post Jeremy at Struggles Forever has provided an important reminder: [T]he conception of Nature as a container, in my opinion, conveys the wrong message. Containers delimit and...
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Hickman on the intrepid hunger of the free
Mandy Martin, ‘Wanderers in the desert of the real’, 2008 “That we continue is because of our stubbornness, our inability to let the elements keep us down, to strive after the only thing we find worth...
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Naturalism’s Nihilistic Tendencies, Olivier Surel
http://u-paris10.academia.edu/OlivierSurel/Talks Tagged: affect, agency, corporeality, cosmopolitics, ecology, episteme, nihilism, postnihilism
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Background Ontology, Ecological Politics and Infrastructure: Notes Towards A...
“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, as quoted in Mackay...
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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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Nietzsche’s Bastards
Thinking about existential finitude is one thing, solemn and practical in range, but acknowledging and then living with an awareness of the myriad of blindnesses, biases and otherwise unconscious...
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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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