Category: Theory/Fiction

--- ∞ "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: 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" (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" (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" (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 →

-- ∞ "The Cure for Assimilation: Ethics as De-sublimation" (pdf) - Amanda Boetzkes, 2022 Amanda Boetzkes is a theorist and historian of contemporary art. She is the author of Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste (MIT Press, 2019), The Ethics of Earth Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), and a forthcoming book titled Ecologicity: Vision and … Continue reading The Cure for Assimilation: Ethics as De-sublimation →

-- ∞ “Another Letter from Utopia Is Possible” (pdf) - Joshua Schuster, 2022 Joshua Schuster is an associate professor of English at Western University in Canada. He often dreams about writing a book on how poetics will be necessary for any alien communications, just as poetics is necessary for any communications on Earth.

-- ∞ "Sephirothal Topography" (pdf) - A. A. Walker, 2022 A. A. Walker is a Scots-Irish writer and performer based in the UK. Literary works have appeared in Fugitives & Futurists, Cauldron and Net, Muse Apprentice Guild, Prakalpana Literature, Carnivorous Arpeggio, Sidereality, Plinth, and other mags and websites. Licentia by A. A. Walker is published … Continue reading Sephirothal Topography →