--- "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
Category: Dis-Junction
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
Theses to Ravachol: suspended time, exception and spectacle
--- ∞ "Theses to Ravachol: Suspended Time, Exception and Spectacle" (pdf) - Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos (2021) Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos is PhD on Law and Justice at the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil) and PhD on Philosophy at Coimbra University (Portugal). Tenured Professor … Continue reading Theses to Ravachol: suspended time, exception and spectacle
Stratum 8
--- "...and we might sense the unknown and the route that tempts the traveler to test gravity" - Mahmoud Darwish _________________ THEORY/FICTION: Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Planet Does Not Return Our Gaze” Mojca Penca, “Planetary Entanglements and Entrapments (Review of Lukáš Likavčan’s Introduction to Comparative Planetology)" Derek Woods, “The Fungal Kingdom" Sean Singh Matharoo, “The Damned … Continue reading Stratum 8
Notes Toward an Abolitionist Alienocene
--- ∞ "Notes Toward an Abolitionist Alienocene" (pdf) - Ingrid Diran, 2020 Ingrid Diran is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Anti-Camp
--- ∞ "Anti-Camp: A Situationist Contribution to Philosophy" (pdf) - Joyce Karine de Sá Souza, 2020 PhD on Law and Justice at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Senior Researcher of the Research Group: ‘The state of exception in Brazil: a critical reading of the emergency argument in the political-juridical national context’. Her research focuses … Continue reading Anti-Camp
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