-- -- If we imagine ourselves as planetary accidents rather than global agents, planetary creatures rather than global entities, alterity remains underived from us. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Imperative to Re-imagine the Planet” --- THEORY/FICTION: Claire Colebrook, "Unthinkable Extinction: Cinematic Time and the Panorama of History" Susanna Lindberg, "Unthinking the Underworld" Christian Keeve, "Cosmic Assemblages and … Continue reading Stratum 5
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Dreams and Nightmares: Beyond the Anthropocene Era
--- ∞ "Dreams and Nightmares: Beyond the Anthropocene Era" (pdf), Bernard Stiegler, 2019 Translated by Daniel Ross. Bernard Stiegler was born in 1952. He is currently president of the Institut de recherche et d’innovation du Centre Pompidou and of the Ars Industrialis association. He was professor of philosophy at the université de technologie de Compiègne, and … Continue reading Dreams and Nightmares: Beyond the Anthropocene Era
This is a Low
--- ∞ “This is a Low: Old Futures in the Age of Brexit” - Alexis Lothian, 2019 Punk, heritage, capitalism, fascism, violence Audiovisual speculation invites viewers to experience familiar sounds and images in new ways, calling forth inchoate and visceral feelings and connections that cannot be fully accounted for in textual argument alone. Derek Jarman’s dystopian … Continue reading This is a Low
Marx—das Unheimliche
--- "Marx has not yet been received. The subtitle of this address could thus have been: “Marx—das Unheimliche.” Marx remains an immigrant chez nous, a glorious, sacred, accursed but still a clandestine immigrant as he was all his life. He belongs to a time of disjunction, to that “time out of joint” in which is inaugurated, … Continue reading Marx—das Unheimliche
Unthinkable Extinction
∞ "Unthinkable Extinction: Cinematic Time and the Panorama of History" (pdf) - Claire Colebrook, 2019 Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at Penn State University. She has written books and articles on contemporary European philosophy, literary history, gender studies, queer theory, visual culture and feminist philosophy. … Continue reading Unthinkable Extinction
Unthinking the Underworld
--- ∞ "Unthinking the Underworld: Nature, Death, and the Elemental" (pdf) - Susanna Lindberg, 2019 Susanna Lindberg is a philosopher. After earning a PhD at the University of Strasbourg, she has worked as lecturer and professor at the Universities of Helsinki and Tampere, and as associate researcher at the Université Paris Nanterre. Currently she is a … Continue reading Unthinking the Underworld
Cosmic Assemblages and Radical Descents
--- ∞ "Cosmic Assemblages and Radical Descents: Entering the [M] Archive" (pdf) - Christian Keeve (2019) Christian Keeve is a graduate student in Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He's also a fairly compelling human person. Currently, he's into the political ecologies of seeds, legacies of African-American seedkeeping, critical environmental formations, queer geographies, and … Continue reading Cosmic Assemblages and Radical Descents
Cosmic Graffiti
--- ∞ "Cosmic Graffiti on Planck’s Façade" (pdf) - Frédéric Neyrat, 2019 Translation: Ciarán Coyle. First published as "Graffitis cosmiques sur un mur de planque " in La Besogne des images , 2019 (see Fabien Ribery's recension: "La besogne commence à peine"). Frédéric Neyrat is a philosopher, professor at UW-Madison, editor of Alienocene. Ciarán Coyle is a … Continue reading Cosmic Graffiti
The Avatar Projection Protocol
∞ "The Avatar Projection Protocol" (pdf) - Drew S. Burk, 2019 Drew S. Burk is a writer, editor, and translator of contemporary French thought. He was a founding member of Univocal Publishing, http://www.univocalpublishing.com/ and is currently a consulting editor with University of Minnesota Press for the continuation of Univocal as a Series, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/univocal "The Avatar … Continue reading The Avatar Projection Protocol
Combustion
--- "From The Combustion Cycle" (pdf) - Will Alexander (19XX-20XX) --- This excerpt is from the first poem of The Combustion Cycle. It contains 3 poems the first of which is "Concerning The Henbane Bird" uttered by the voice of a Peruvian Hillstar (the 2nd largest Hummingbird on Earth), the 2nd poem of the trilogy … Continue reading Combustion
