Journal of the First Outernational
∞ "Dreaming in the Large Magellanic Cloud" (pdf) - Michel Cassé, 2018 Translation: Cindy Terrafere. I thank Monique Allewaert for her help. Michel Cassé is a French astrophysicist, writer, and poet. He works at CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique), and at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and specializes nucleosynthesis and quantum mechanics. Amongst others … Continue reading Dreaming in the Large Magellanic Cloud
∞ "Infra-Terrestrial Journey with the Aboriginal Spirits of the Earth" (pdf) - Barbara Glowczewski, 2018 Translation: Frédéric Neyrat. I thank Lewis Freedman for his help. Barbara Glowczewski has Professorial research tenure at CNRS (http://las.ehess.fr/index.php?1716). She is the author of numerous books and articles. For over 40 years has advocated for Australian Aboriginal creativity through a … Continue reading Infra-Terrestrial Journey
∞ "Recosmicizing the Earth: A few Peruvian Lessons" (pdf) -Augustin Berque, 2018 Translation: Drew S. Burk. Augustin Berque, born in 1942 in Morocco, a French geographer and orientalist, is a retired director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, where he has been teaching from 1979 to 2017. … Continue reading Recosmicizing the Earth
∞ "Clouds. Onto-Meteorology and the Philosophical Fantastic" (pdf) - Boyan Manchev, 2017-2018 Boyan Manchev is a philosopher, author of nine books in Bulgarian, French, Italian and English, among them: Meteor. Texts for Theatre (co-authored with Ani Vaseva, 2018) and Clouds. Philosophy of the Free Body (2017). The search of a new philosophical form and a possibility of new … Continue reading ONTO-METEOROLOGY AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL FANTASTIC
∞ "Bamboo City" (pdf) - Drew Burk, 2018 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 Bamboo City is the second … Continue reading BAMBOO CITY
--- --- Hope is not memory held fast but the return of what has been forgotten. - T.W. Adorno, "On the Final Scene of Faust" THEORY/FICTION: Steven Shaviro, "Unpredicting the Future" Nathalie Blanc, "Sidereal" Andrew Culp, "Dark Deleuze" Drew S. Burk, "X-1" Barbara Glowczewski, "The Men-Trees of the Stars Dreaming" Jean-Luc Nancy, … Continue reading STRATUM 1
∞ "Unpredicting the Future" (pdf) - Steven Shaviro, 2018 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 Pinocchio Theory.
∞ "Sidereal" (pdf) - Nathalie Blanc, 2018 Translation: Frédéric Neyrat. I thank Maxwell Woods for his suggestions. Nathalie Blanc works as a Research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). A pioneer of ecocriticism in France, she has published and coordinated research programs on areas including habitability, environmental aesthetics, literature & environment … Continue reading Sidereal
∞ "Dark Deleuze" (pdf) - Andrew Culp, 2018 Andrew Culp teaches media theory in the MA program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of Technology. His current writing is on the slogan "Another End of the World is Possible," and he blogs occasionally at Anarchist Without … Continue reading Dark Deleuze
∞ "X-1" (pdf) - Drew S. Burk, 2018 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 X-1 is the first in … Continue reading X-1
