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Immersive Afterlives & SONOROUS ARCHIPELAGHOST
--- ∞ "Immersive Afterlives: Streaming Spectres H2.O in Hong Kong’s Online “Seameteries”" (pdf) - Marie Lecuyer, 2022 Abstract:This article is part ethnographic, part fiction, and seeks to sound out the under-water-digital-commons of resting places for the dead in Hong Kong. It traces the emergence of “seameteries” occurring within the archipelago’s saturated urban space, which involves … Continue reading Immersive Afterlives & SONOROUS ARCHIPELAGHOST
Finite Tech, Unknowable Nature
-- ∞ "Finite Tech, Unknowable Nature: Toward an Ecological Grammar" (pdf) - James Fontini, 2022 Abstract: The article sketches a view of nature as a movement undermining totality. Awareness of our entanglement in an inherently incomplete movement forces us to rethink or reinvent our relationship to nature. The view provided here has been developed by … Continue reading Finite Tech, Unknowable Nature
Prolegomena to Planetary Cybernetics
-- ∞ "Prolegomena to Planetary Cybernetics" (pdf) - Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, 2022 Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is a professor at the Department of British and American Cultural Studies and a founding director of the Center for Technology in Humanities at Kyung Hee University, Korea. He was invited as a visiting professor at the Centre for Culture … Continue reading Prolegomena to Planetary Cybernetics
hemlock or the alien of the alien
-- ∞ "hemlock or the alien of the alien" (pdf) - Kosmokritik, 2022 Kosmokritik is a cybernetic entity dealing with meontology to establish a critical return to the cosmos.
How Many Ears? or: The Place of the Listenee
-- ∞ "How Many Ears? or: The Place of the Listenee" (pdf) - Peter Szendy, 2022 Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University and musicological advisor for the book series published by the Paris Philharmony. His work has focused on the archaeology of listening (Listen: A History of … Continue reading How Many Ears? or: The Place of the Listenee
A plea for Black radical intellectual autonomy
-- ∞ "A Plea for Black Radical Intellectual Autonomy" (pdf) - Norman Ajari (2022) Abstract: From the end of the 2010 decade, academic discourse on race faced a major political and mediatic backlash in the Western world. In countries with a major history of slavery or colonial expansion such as France, the United States and … Continue reading A plea for Black radical intellectual autonomy
ON THE FAILED CHILEAN CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
-- ∞ "Reflections on the Failed Chilean Constitutional Convention" - Max Woods, October 2022 Chile has rejected a proposed constitution that reflected the demands of anti-neoliberal, feminist, decolonial, and environmentalist social movements of the past decades. Where do we go from here? Maxwell Woods is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in … Continue reading ON THE FAILED CHILEAN CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
So long Michael
-- https://videopress.com/v/E9AMCxp0?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true ∞ "So Long Michael" - Elizabeth Perceval and Nicolas Klotz, 2022 The more time sculpts the face of a human, the more the eyes inhabit the caves in which the gaze withdraws and contemplates its exit into death, the more the core of the human is revealed as inhuman—the inhuman that precedes and … Continue reading So long Michael
Plumbing the Abyssal
-- ∞ “Plumbing the Abyssal: On (Vanta)Blackness + Descent” (pdf) - Cecilio M. Cooper (2022) Cecilio M. Cooper is a Faculty Fellow with New York University’s Department of Social & Cultural Analysis after serving as a Forsyth Postdoctoral Research Fellow with University of Michigan’s History of Art Department. Via black critical theory, their current research … Continue reading Plumbing the Abyssal