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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Metabolism is affect without feeling or emotion—affect as the transformative power of “passion” that, as Brian Massumi reminds us, Spinoza identifies as that unknown power of embodiment that is neither wholly active nor wholly passive.43 Metabolic processes are the zero degree of transformative agency, at once intimately familiar and terrifyingly
... See more“Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively,”
Joshua Rivkin • Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly
Non-binary, decentralized, unknowing – what all three conditions of this negative theology of technology have in common is that they are concerned with dismantling domination, in all its forms.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Timothée Parrique – How to Blow Up an Economy
videos.theconference.seI take to heart Tim Garrett’s excellent work,7 indicating that only the collapse of industrial civilization will prevent runaway climate change. And there are many, many other good reasons to terminate this set of living arrangements. According to a United Nations report from August 2010, we’re driving to extinction 150 to 200 species every day.
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
To move beyond human/nonhuman hierarchies and distinctions, the oppositionality against all essentialisms that is necessary for political antagonism must be ecologically distributed.