Key Lime Pie

Every book has a slice of something really delicious in it that when it finally enters you, just makes you feel so good. I just had that mom...

"Don't Commit Suicide [Greece] just because you are afraid of death [austerity]: Jean-Claude Juncker

“Instead, allow us to turn you into zombies.”

Why Greece Should Exit

To understand why I say this, you need to realize that most — not all, but most — of what you’ve heard about Greek profligacy and irresponsi...

Please Leave the Euro Now, Greece

acceding to the troika’s ultimatum would represent the final abandonment of any pretense of Greek independence. Don’t be taken in by claims ...

Victor Mazón and Martin Howse

You just ripped it up, my friends, in Espacio X in back of the Cathedral here in Mexico City. Both in different ways were exercises in tunin...

Baffler, Pope, Morton

Thanks to those who found this and told me . I pay so very little attention to how my stuff is circulating so I'm really glad to find th...

The Alpha Wolf: Another Human Projection

...and another reason to thank Cliff, purveyor of fine links.

Share This Widely: What's Really Warming the World

This is really, really, good : thanks Cliff. It's worth watching and it's definitely worth spreading.

Performance, Theory, Politics: A Seminar (3-hour MP3)

From my stint at CARPA4, “The Nonhuman and the Inhuman in Performing Arts,” Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, June 11–13, 2...

How to Read Any Poem, Anywhere (Syllabus)

You asked for it! There are not a lot of surprises in the syllabus. What is surprising is the way we do the class. Or did--now I teach a ver...

You Could Be Doing This

Take a Stand: Chairs Are Driving You Round the Bend

We have become chair vectors. Chairs are a virus we reproduce for no good reason. BMC Public Health issued the following news release about...

Labour, Repeat After Me, Frequently

“Austerity? Oh--you mean the religion based on nothing more than someone forgetting to press a calculator key?” “Deficit? You mean the debt,...

"Left-Wing, Ideologically Driven [Greek] Government"

BBC Radio 4, Today about 35 minutes in. What, as opposed to the right-wing, ideologically driven austerity religion? A religion based on wh...

That Newsworthy Sixth Mass Extinction Essay (PDF)

I did the work for you and found it . Everyone's talking about it. Many of us have been talking about it for years. Click to download.

What Is After Biopolitics?

After Biopolitics, the 2015–16 Seminar, will expore how and why “life” in the broadest sense has become a central topic of politics over the...

For the Parents of White Supremacist Terrorists

The insect-headed worker-wife will hang her waspies on the line The husband burns his paper, sucks his pipe while studying their 'cause...

Cary Wolfe and Me, After Biopolitics

Let the mayhem commence.

The Rather Unedifying Spectacle

...of right wing Catholics over here striving to put the Pope in a box. He is, after all, called Francis. What else were you expecting? Stra...

West Point: White Terrorists far Outnumber Others in USA

This is from West Point , ladies and gentlemen. West Point. If you click the link you can download the PDF.

Endorsements of Nothing (!)

By Avital Ronell and Alphonso Lingis. Wow, I could hardly think of more brilliant and important scholars to endorse our little Buddhism proj...

"I identify with, therefore I am"

Is this a symptom of correlationism, in which a thing, including myself, is blank I can format as I wish? And is it the flip side of "I...

My One Regret

...that Napoleon didn't win the Battle of Waterloo and thus create the USE, the United States of Europe, obviating WW1 and the existence...

Mexico City Talk Details

Op3ra has a nice list of what they're up to. Various people are showing up to this series of talks and so on concerning the notion of t...

Wimbledon on Acid

I used to live just around the corner from the tennis you see, and down the hill from Wimbledon Common, where the Ozric Tentacles lived. Wim...

Mexico City Lecture Next Week

Which will go like this: How to Defeat Invisible Gods Not everything can be seen, and if by "seen" we mean capable of being transl...

Being Upbraided by a Robot

I love me a nice loop. Hence in part my keenness on this movie. Something quite nice about the robot's tone of voice here correcting Coo...

At the Dénouement

...you find yourself in a library...Jeffrey Kripal pointed this out to me, how fantastic is that, the way in which hermeneutical uncertainty...

On the Front Page of the Helsingin Sanomat

Not because of me, I'm sure , but because of the excellent, excellent interviewer, Jussi Ahlroth. Awesome photographer too... The full a...

Damn

The performances at this Helsinki symposium are dynamite. Singing, drawing, movement, music, painting, commentary, all at once. I will do my...

The Spectral Plain (MP3)

In Helsinki, yesterday. 

My Interview with Rice Magazine

Thanks to Michael Hardy, who did an awesome job. I'm talking about ecology, Björk, OOO, hyperobjects, and working in Texas.

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All Hail the Surging Power of the Minor Ninth

...the diminished second part chords are just excellent too.

Sleek

The current issue of art/fashion mag  Sleek  (“Silent Spring”) has an interview with me and Julian Charrière, by Tomasz Kobialka, on Julian...

Favorite Guitar Solo

I suppose everyone has something like it. This is Allan Holdsworth on David Hines's “Antilla,” an extraordinarily nice blend of somethin...

On the way to Helsinki

I can't wait to meet the conference crew and get to work. Lots of it too! And being interviewed by the paper. Hopefully I won't be t...

SonicActs Geologic Imagination Day 1

Video has me and Graham in it, and more importantly Espen Sommer Eide pulling his metal spokes to great effect...

Where the Wild Things Are

It's the title of my essay in the first issue of the beautiful LA+: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture. It's about ...

OOO and Freedom

More on that OOO non-theism tip: The OOO reality is one where there is fundamental freedom and fundamental contingency. Iron necessity (form...

CFP for Awesome Conference at My Place

Run by my fantastic Ph.D. students Laura Bilhimer, Annie Lowe and Mallory Pladus . "Welcome to Modalities 2015! This year’s theme is in...

How Much Atheism Do You Want?

Belief in an all powerful external being such as an Axial Age God or the modern incarnations such as neoliberalism might not have brought a ...

Federico Campagna on Anxiety

Awesome. He is saying exactly what I've been arguing in Dark Ecology  and in my essay “Elementally” (hi Jeffrey Cohen!) for a future col...

Amen

"Cole also claims that artists and architects only read Speculative Realism because they misunderstand it, and really think that it’s a...

Vocatus Atque Nonvocatus Deus Aderit

I was so happily reminded of this today. I ended up writing to the chap who put it together. Nice punky video. Punks on ecstasy. Circa 1988....

STEM

...or as I prefer to call it, Dangerously Unreflective Machination: DUM.

Why Is This So Good?

I know, I know, I shouldn't like this, because Elon Musk etc etc. At least it's better than, and a lot trippier than, geoengineering...

African-American Woman Kicks Old White Man's Ass, World Cheers

That didn't take long did it ? I mean, I love Switzerland, but you have to draw a line somewhere.

Trumpet of Doom

That's what this infographic looks like. Thanks Cliff. Oh dear.