-- "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: Sound & Vision
Icare Noir (l’attachement)
--- --- ∞ "Icare Noir (l'Attachement)" - Lionel Marchetti, 2022 ••• Lionel Marchetti composed this musical work to accompany Frédéric Neyrat’s Cosmos Expérimental (Abrüpt, 2022). Consisting of fragments, aphorisms, stories, and metaphysical investigations, Cosmos Expérimental proposes a journey in space-time where enigmatic characters exchange views on astrophysics, technology, music, angels, communism, death and eternity. Cosmos … Continue reading Icare Noir (l’attachement)
Sharpening Spells
∞ "Sharpening Spells" - Youri Johnson, 2022 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Youri Johnson is a fiction producing fictions. Its existence is made up of poems, theoretical texts, strange objects, and things even more obscure. The whole forms a work entitled The Secret … Continue reading Sharpening Spells
Stanzas of Basajo
-- ∞ "Stanzas of Basajo - Fragments of The New Gnosis" (pdf) - Daria S. Basajo, 2022 Daria S. Basajo bears witness to the invisible communities. The term "Stanzas" refers to the revelations of these communities and to her commentary on these revelations. She is the auctor of the Stanzas; she who augments the words. … Continue reading Stanzas of Basajo
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
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
Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa
--- ∞ "Extraction: the Raft of the Medusa" - Salomé Lamas (2019-2020) Alienocene is proud to feature a film by Salomé Lamas, a prolific filmmaker who gives images and their blind spot the political content that allows them to touch the very heart of our present, where the ghosts of the past speak with the … Continue reading Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa
In Memoriam: In Enquiry (excerpts)
-- ∞ "Excerpts from In Memoriam: In Enquiry" (2021) - David Weiss, 2021 David Weiss is the Assistant Director at Chax Press & serves on the board of POG, a community poetry & arts organization, both located in Tucson Arizona. His book length poem In Memoriam: In Enquiry is forthcoming from Chax Press in early … Continue reading In Memoriam: In Enquiry (excerpts)
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