Monthly Archives: May 2013

Stengers’ ‘Reclaiming Animism’

Following on from my earlier post, in which I quoted from Stengers’ The Curse of Tolerance, particularly in light of axiomatics and accelerationism. I also linked to Adam Robbert’s notes on Stengers’ talk about Indigenous Cosmopolitics (here in case you … Continue reading

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Complicating the composition of a ‘we’

This post is a response to a comment from dmf on my previous post (here) that grew big enough to become a post in its own right. Thanks dmf for the good questions! OK. Accelerationists aside (for now)… How does … Continue reading

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From axioms and acceleration to indigenous cosmopolitics

I managed to get Cosmopolitics II back from a friend the other day and was led to revisit the last book in the series: The Curse of Tolerance. In the meanwhile, those sections of the interweb I frequent have been … Continue reading

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Hypocrisy and anti-capitalist struggle

We live in a time where the charge of hypocrisy is almost impossible to avoid – particularly – but not exclusively – for those engaged in struggles against capitalism and ecological disaster. As a middle class person (a professional, part … Continue reading

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Visibility and struggle

I just read a great post by Arran James over here (on visibility and anti-capitalist struggle) and as sometimes happens it triggered some of my own thoughts which I carry on here as a riff on a bit of a … Continue reading

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Spanner in the works

Imagine you are sitting at the edge of a forest. The sky is blue and the sun beats down. Leaves sway in the wind. Birds call. You look out across to the small cluster of huts you call your village. … Continue reading

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Amplify the cracks

A while back I had the phrase “amplify the cracks” on a loop inside my brain. Our modern capitalist system is sick, broken and, like a wounded beast, wreaking havoc as it thrashes about gasping for the souls and materials … Continue reading

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Quote: Stengers and Pignarre in Capitalist Sorcery

Stengers and Pignarre’s Capitalist Sorcery ends with the following: If we have called into question the notion of ‘theory’ so frequently, it is precisely to the extent that it corresponds to sparing ourselves the bother of ‘paying attention’, to a … Continue reading

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