Tag: adaptivity
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Tarrying With The Possible?
In ‘Global Weirding & Deep Adaptation‘ I played with the suggestion that there is a wider spectrum of options for envisioning the future than what can be gleaned from two of the most popular clusters of tropes, which I loosely labeled ‘techno-utopian’ and ‘neo-primitivist,’ respectively. With this, I argued for a fleshing out of different…
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On Feral Philosophy
Nostalgia overflows me as I write this… I’m remembering the free exchanges of half-baked ideas and irreverent attitudes that animated the theory blogosphere in the late 2000s—during the early days of what was tentatively regarded as “speculative realism.” The frenetic dialogues and debates among learned scholars, enthusiastic amateurs, and so many other critics and supporters,…
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Global Weirding & Deep Adaptation
The following is a revised and slightly expanded version of a talk I gave at the Wyrd/Patchwork #2 event put on by Punctum, in Prague, Czech Republic on October 26, 2018. The conference was organized by the folks at Diffractions Collective. You can watch a video of the original here. Feedback is encouraged and appreciated.…
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From The Ruins
This essay was written in 2014, and since it’s original publication the authors’ interpretations have changes in several ways — although never abandoning the position that post-conventional understandings of human language and communication afforded by some variant of epistemic humility as a point of departure for less dogmatic and more embodied modes of relating, being…
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