-- "To cohabit the earth is prior to any possible community or nation or neighborhood. We might sometimes choose where to live, and who to live by or with, but we cannot choose with whom to cohabit the earth." Judith Butler, Parting Ways THEORY/FICTION: Amanda Boetzkes, "The Cure for Assimilation: Ethics as De-sublimation" Joshua Schuster, … Continue reading Stratum 11
Category: Dis-Junction
The Afterlives of Non-Alignment
--- "The Afterlives of Non-Alignment - Paul Stubbs in conversation with Srećko Pulig" (2022) Paul Stubbs is a sociologist based in Zagreb, Croatia. His edited book Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: social, cultural, political and economic imaginaries will be published later in 2022 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. SP: In today's world, and particularly in … Continue reading The Afterlives of Non-Alignment
Post-socialist wars and the masculinist backlash
-- ∞ "Post-Socialist Wars and the Masculinist Backlash" (pdf) - Rada Iveković, 2022 Rada Iveković is a researcher of the Indian pluriverse and of philosophy, and a writer. She works and lives in Paris, but she attended school in Belgrade, graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, received her doctorate from the University of Delhi, … Continue reading Post-socialist wars and the masculinist backlash
The Space Offshore
--- ∞ "The Space Offshore" (pdf) - RYBN.ORG, 2022 Originally published in "The Great Offshore. Art, argent, gouvernance, souveraineté, colonialisme." UV Éditions, Villecomtal-sur-Arros, May 2021 - http://uveditions.com/ Translated by Arby Gharibian.
Stratum 10
--- "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
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
Counter-SpellS
-- ∞ "Counter-Spells" - Cindy Terrafere, 2021 Cindy Terrafere is an independent scholar and poet based in San Francisco. Co-founder of the Center for Alien Studies, she is working on a collective book: Critique of Astronomical Reason.
Stratum 9
--- "Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears." - Pauline Oliveros --- THEORY/FICTION: Benjamin Klug, "Kin of the Cosmos"Doron Darnov, "Review of Navigating the Planetary (H. Amanshauser and K. Bradley, eds.)"Kaitlin Moore, "A blank canvas, a painter's brush: Geoengineering and the Eschaton in Supergiant Games’s Transistor … Continue reading Stratum 9
Towards an Insurgent Zombie Collective
--- ∞ "Towards an Insurgent Zombie Collective" (pdf) - Florian Cord, 2021 Abstract: This essay reads the present not as the Anthropocene, but as the Zombiecene. Conceived as a figure of undecidability and the confusion of boundaries (between life and death, mind and body, self and other, etc.), the zombie is mobilized for an inquiry … Continue reading Towards an Insurgent Zombie Collective
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