Living in the Time of Dying
Living in the Time of Dying https://open.substack.com/pub/backloop/p/living-in-the-time-of-dying?r=17fzud&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Read on Substack
X-Life in The Back Loop
How Nuclear Fallout Maps Helped Create Planetary Ecological Thinking
Cultural Niche Construction as a Framework for Reorienting Human−Environment Relations
AbstractIn this paper, we argue that the theory of cultural niche construction provides a cogent and fruitful framework for studying and managing human−environment relationships, including our conceptualizations of them. We […]
Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism
Kohei Saito offers a unique and groundbreaking interpretation of Marx’s Capital as “a book about metabolism between humans and nature”. As Saito explains, Capital’s logic of infinite accumulation creates an […]
How To Understand Power
Synthetic Philosophy within the division of Labor
by ERIC SCHLIESSER on JANUARY 30, 2024 When I first published on what I call ‘synthetic philosophy’ back in 2019, I presented the two key components of the view in such a way that it […]
Planetary Sapience | Benjamin Bratton
JUNE 17, 2021 Benjamin Bratton is a professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, and the director of the terraforming program at the Strelka Institute in […]
showing up for catastrophe
frag_10_2023 The most recent IPCC reports were supposed to put an end to the fictitious debate about the empirical reality of human-made climate change, and instead shift the focus too […]
patchwork revisited
There’s something still latent in the patchwork discourse that needs to be revisited. As Patrick suggested in this post, going from abstraction to intention, theory to praxis, in real contexts […]
No Exit
The apotheosis of Corporate-State Apparatus will be our final catastrophe. Capitalism is no longer merely the dominant ideological form, it is a black hole consuming the entire world.
New Vernaculars
Originally posted on Dengie Bioregion:
There was a heat dome over the north. It was in the news about the USA and Canada, but it’s also been in the Russian…
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 […]
How to Deal with Cosmoecological Perplexities
Introduction In 2020, I got hold of the slim Artscience (2021) by the Malaysian physicist turned writer and speculative designer Clarissa Lee. Subtitled A Curious Education, the unusual format brings together reflections on […]
Why Agriculture Can Never Be Sustainable
Ten thousand years of agriculture has devastated every ecosystem it has come in contact with. Horticultural societies point toward a solution, and permaculture can help us design a way to […]
The End of the Megamachine?
Fabian Scheidler in conversation w/ Professor Richard D. Wolff on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff about “The End of the #Megamachine”, tipping points in the Earth system, social movements, […]
Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance
By Craig Collins [original source] As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust. But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase. Growth-less capitalism turns catabolic. The […]
How to build a new world in the shell of the old
Every city has its graveyard of community groups. Without a strategic vision, local projects cannot possibly amount to a systemic alternative to capitalism. April 28, 2018 “Another world is not […]
SYMBIOTIC SKINS, METABOLIC SCHEMA
by Ally Bisshop When Johann von Goethe wrote his 1790 treatise on the metamorphosis of plants,[1] he invited us to read in the form of a plant the signs of […]
Joseph Tainter on ‘Collapse’
“Collapse is a broad term that can cover many kinds of processes. It means different things to different people. Some see collapse as a thing that could happen only to […]
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