'If you don't go into metaphysics, you assume an uncritical metaphysics...' – A. N. #Whitehead (HL2, 375)

this take on civilization is so refreshing to read when I'm trying to write about how contemporary civilizational discourse has gone terribly wrong & tied up with reactionary politics Graeber & Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything

There sure are a lot of interesting ideas for organizing human civilization in various indigenous societies

Question: would you, dear readers, be interested in an audiobook edition of Seeing Through the World? Thinking about publishing that later this summer--and subscribers/patrons would receive it first.

the 2020s is a non-consensual experiment in limbic overclocking

Let’s not dismiss Fisher too quickly. I’m no full Fisherian, but his take on Nietzsche’s Last Man rings true here, especially as we face down the illusion of our own impotence before the theater of impunity while being stirred by the tenuous promises of the electoral sphere.

Human beings must be free to imagine otherwise if they are to become otherwise. It is only by putting down the old stories that we make room, as it were, for a new relationship with time to take root in us. jeremydjohnson.substack.com/p/futuring-beg…

Stone Age farmers’ households passed from mother to daughter | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Radically true

Describing my research methodology

New essay, out today in Eurozine: eurozine.com/seeds-of-anoth…

I am & honored to announce some exciting news for #theYoungidealist series. Dr. dalia nassar dalianassar.bsky.social will be featured in an upcoming episode this coming August. Dr. Nassar will be discussing Environmental thought/ecology with important philosophical, & Romantic figures.

If we are already in relation with latent futures, it behooves us all to aspire towards greater degrees of agency in the face of technocratic dehumanization, presence in the face of rampant clock-time, and freedom in the face of spiritual estrangement.

Today is the fifth anniversary of Michael's passing so, instead of a regular Philosophy for the People essay, I reprinted the introduction I wrote three years ago for Matt McManus's book on Michael's cosmopolitan socialism, with permission from Matt and the publisher.

Still doesn’t make sense, 5 years out. Grateful to have had our time together, top of the world. Miss you my friend.

❤️🌹

Remember: we call in the future when we succeed in enacting a different kind of present together.

The present is latent with the tensions that compose its own transformation.

In case you missed it: a little noticed Florida state dashboard showed several instances of immigration enforcement arresting U.S. citizens. When the Miami New Times asked about it, most of those arrests disappeared from the dashboard and public view.