--- "Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void/ It is shining." - The Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows --- THEORY/FICTION: David Wills, "States of Slate" Emery Jenson, "Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan" Carlos A. Segovia, "I m p r o m p t u: The Alien – Heraclitus’s Cut" Sophie … Continue reading Stratum 10
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The Lunar System Sound Collage
-- https://alienocene.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/hanna-david-alienocene-new.wav --- ∞ "The Lunar System Sound Collage" – Hanna Mattes & David Rothenberg (2021) The Lunar System Sound Collage is a sound and poetry collaboration between musician and philosopher David Rothenberg and myself, visual and performance artist Hanna Mattes. After having worked on several sound pieces remotely for a year – him in … Continue reading The Lunar System Sound Collage
Vol Sombre
--- --- ∞ "Vol Sombre" - Kassel Jaeger, 2021 The term "vol sombre" (dark flight) corresponds to the phase where a meteorite, after having crossed the atmosphere, reaches its terminal speed, slows down, and does not shine any longer. The sound piece evokes this moment of free fall, comparatively slow compared to the cosmic speeds … Continue reading Vol Sombre
Strata
-- https://alienocene.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/mattias-for-alienocene.wav --- ∞ "Strata (Piece for Alienocene)" - Mattias Gustafsson (2021) --- Mattias Gustafsson (born 1978) is a sound artist from Mjölby, Sweden that has been releasing music as Altar Of Flies and his given name since 2006. He mostly works with magnetic tape and various instruments & electronics. His music is influenced by … Continue reading Strata
Hermeneucracy: Short Interview on Internationalism and Interpretation
--- ∞ "Hermeneucracy: Short Interview on Internationalism and Interpretation" (pdf) - Jean-Luc Nancy, 2021 Translation: Ciarán Coyle. First published in Lignes n°61 (February, 2020) Ciarán is a doctoral student at Fordham University studying regimes of labor, socially mediating practice, and logics of domination. --- ---
The Children of Line 3
--- In his most recent novel, The Ministry for the Future, cli-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson imagines the moment - in 2025 - when a devastating heat wave strikes the Earth, killing 20 million people in India. Among many things that arise from this all-too imaginable disaster is a social movement, The Children of Kali, … Continue reading The Children of Line 3
States of slate
-- ∞ "States of Slate" (pdf) - David Wills, 2021 David Wills is professor of French and Francophone Studies at Brown University. His work centers on the originary technicity of the human, developed mainly in three books: Prosthesis, Dorsality, and Inanimation (all published with University of Minnesota Press), as well as in his recent Killing Times: The Temporal Technology of … Continue reading States of slate
Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan
--- ∞ "Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan" (pdf) - Emery Jenson, 2021 emery jenson (they/them) is an editor, writer, researcher, and artist from Durham, North Carolina. They are currently a PhD student in Literary studies at UW Madison and a graduate affiliate with the Center for Culture, History and Environment. … Continue reading Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan
I m p r o m p t u: THE ALIEN – Heraclitus’s Cut
-- ∞ "I m p r o m p t u: The Alien – Heraclitus’s Cut" (pdf) - Carlos A. Segovia, 2021 Carlos A. Segovia is an independent British-born Spanish philosopher working on counter-dominant conceptual worlds and post-nihilism. He has been associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus (Spain) … Continue reading I m p r o m p t u: THE ALIEN – Heraclitus’s Cut
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