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many worlds, one earth
…discovered today another blog worth following: THE ANTHROPO.SCENE
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democracy, risk, syntax
Regarding his DNI Statement of June 6, 2012, are we to take Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper at his word? After all, if the “unauthorized disclosure” published by the Guardian and the...
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honey bee collapse
Apis mellifera—the honey bee, native to Europe, Africa and Western Asia—is disappearing around the world. Signs of decline also appear now in the eastern honey bee, Apis cerana. We know what is killing...
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terrain: ‘opaque zones of Empire’
“In what follows, I examine terrain as a conceptual (rather than descriptive) category in relation to violence, vision, and ontologies of multiplicity.” Gastón Gordillo via Space and Politics.
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‘pastures of heaven’: the fate of the Altai
On a warm summer’s day twenty-four centuries ago, a noblewoman of the Altai “Princess of Ukok” tattoo design nomadic Pazyryk tribe was buried in a large ancient burial tomb, or kurgan, on the Ukok...
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intangibles: Chengdu 2013
“…acknowledge the central role that knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe play in maintaining sustainable ecosystems and biodiversity and in helping communities to ensure food...
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apotheosis of the ‘Reaper’
In the sixteenth century, [Grégoire Chamayou says,] the iconography of Death often portrayed a soldier fighting a skeleton – most famously in Holbein’s Dance of Death – in a struggle that was always...
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Gyges, drones, invisibility, impunity
In classical mythology Gyges was a shepherd who discovered a magical ring that could make him invisible. Armed with his new power, Gyges eventually killed the king, married the queen and seized the...
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reading currents
current readings on myth & cultural imaginaries: Spheres – Volume I: Bubbles (Peter Sloterdijk, 2011) Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Paul W. Kahn, 2011) On The...
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