Category: Theory/Fiction

--- ∞ "Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan" (pdf) - Emery Jenson, 2021 emery jenson (they/them) is an editor, writer, researcher, and artist from Durham, North Carolina. They are currently a PhD student in Literary studies at UW Madison and a graduate affiliate with the Center for Culture, History and Environment. … Continue reading Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan →

-- ∞  "I m p r o m p t u: The Alien – Heraclitus’s Cut" (pdf) - Carlos A. Segovia, 2021 Carlos A. Segovia is an independent British-born Spanish philosopher working on counter-dominant conceptual worlds and post-nihilism. He has been associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus (Spain) … Continue reading I m p r o m p t u: THE ALIEN – Heraclitus’s Cut →

-- ∞ "Earth-Gaia: Metamorphosis of the Black Earth" (pdf) - Sophie Gosselin and David gé Bartoli, 2021 Sophie Gosselin is a French philosopher, teaching in the Master of Environmental Studies at EHESS (Paris), member of Terrestres.org, and co-author with David gé Bartoli of Le toucher du monde, techniques du naturer (ed. Dehors, 2019). David gé … Continue reading Earth-Gaia: Metamorphosis of the Black Earth →

-- ∞ "Kin of the Cosmos" (pdf) - Benjamin Klug (2021)   Benjamin Klug is a graduate student in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary area of interest is science fiction and fantasy, as a genre and a source for theoretical constructs, and he comprises one half of the casual Moby-Dick podcast … Continue reading Kin of the Cosmos →

--- ∞ "Review of Navigating the Planetary: A guide to the Planetary Art World—Its Past, Present, and Potentials (H. Amanshauser and K. Bradley)" (pdf) - Doron Darnov, 2021 Doron Darnov is a graduate student in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include the environmental humanities, space travel, digital media, and visual … Continue reading Review of Navigating the Planetary →

--- ∞ "A blank canvas, a painter's brush: Geoengineering and the Eschaton in Supergiant Game’s Transistor (2014)" (pdf) - Kaitlin Moore, 2021 Geoengineering –– or "deliberate large-scale interventions in the Earth’s climate system, in order to moderate global warming" (Royal Society 2009: ix) –– represents specific ontological and metaphysical assumptions that turn mastery, manipulation, and … Continue reading Geoengineering and the Eschaton in Supergiant Game’s Transistor (2014) →

--- ∞ "Othering Ecology" (pdf) - Nicole Grimaldi, 2021 Nicole Grimaldi is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at New York University (NYU), pursuing a minor specialization in Media, Culture, and Communication. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She studies critical and political theory, contemporary poetry and poetics, and … Continue reading Othering Ecology →

--- ∞ "Hosting the Ghost: On Limbo Aesthetics" (pdf) - Frédéric Neyrat, 2021 Frédéric Neyrat is a French philosopher, Associate Professor and Mellon-Morgridge Professor of Planetary Humanities in the English department of UW-Madison (USA), editor of Alienocene.