Category: Theory/Fiction

--- ∞ “Lynn Margulis, Autopoietic Gaia, and the Novacene” (pdf) - Bruce Clarke, 2020 Bruce Clarke is the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He was the 2019 Baruch S. Blumberg NASA Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress. His latest book, Gaian Systems: … Continue reading Lynn Margulis, Autopoietic Gaia, and the Novacene →

--- ∞ "Headfirst (A Day in the Alienocene)" (pdf) - Kara Beilin (2020) Kata Beilin is a writer and a Professor at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a Faculty Director of LACIS at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has recently co-edited Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time. Her current project focuses on how … Continue reading Headfirst (A Day in the Alienocene) →

--- ∞ "Cathectoplasm (A Filipino Theory Fiction)" (pdf) - Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly, 2020 Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly is a PhD student in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously publishing in fields such as critical indigenous studies and critical game studies, Christopher’s current interests include anarchism, Filipino folklore, political messianism, and the fraught … Continue reading CATHECTOPLASM →

--- ∞ "Alien-Effect: Encounters of an Other Kind Entirely" (pdf) - François-David Sebbah, 2020 Translation: Ciarán Coyle. François-David Sebbah is professor of philosophy (“contemporary moral philosophy”) at the Université Paris Nanterre. He was Directeur de Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, and for many years at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC/Sorbonne Université). … Continue reading Alien-Effect: Encounters of an Other Kind Entirely →

--- ∞ "Defining Speculation: Speculative Fiction, Speculative Philosophy, and Speculative Finance" (pdf) - Steven Shaviro, 2019 Steven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He mostly writes about science fiction, music videos, and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. His recent books include DISCOGNITION (Repeater Books, 2016). He blogs at The … Continue reading Defining Speculation →

--- ∞ "Evicted from the Future" (pdf) - Jennifer Wenzel Jennifer Wenzel is a scholar of postcolonial studies and environmental and energy humanities, jointly appointed in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World … Continue reading Evicted from the Future →

∞ "The Future of the Humanities in Posthuman Times" (pdf) - Yves Citton, Sara Guyer, Ullrich Langer, Frédéric Neyrat, and Jan Miernowski (2018-2019) • Yves Citton is professor in Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis and co-editor of the journal Multitudes. He recently published Mediarchy (Polity Press, 2019), Contre-courants politiques (Fayard, … Continue reading The Future of the Humanities in Posthuman Times →

--- ∞ "How the Planet Disappeared" (pdf) - Doron Darnov, 2019 Doron Darnov is a graduate student in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At an early age, he learned that the sun will one day expand in size until it eventually swallows and destroys the Earth. He has never known exactly what to … Continue reading How the Planet Disappeared →

--- ∞ "A Recollection of the Long Sleep" (pdf) -Drew S. Burk, 2019 Drew S. Burk is a writer, editor, and translator of contemporary French thought. He was a founding member of Univocal Publishing, http://www.univocalpublishing.com/ and is currently a consulting editor with University of Minnesota Press for the continuation of Univocal as a Series, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/univocal … Continue reading A Recollection of the Long Sleep →