At the end of the second decade of the twentyfirst century, it has become de rigueur to speak not only of an Anthropocene but of a post-Anthropocene, whose template has been provided by that historical fissure in which the late industrial World […]
Nach den Dronen In der von Codes beherrschten Kultur, die als technologische Freiheit durchgeht, wurden wir sorgfältig in die neuen Wahrnehmungsweisen eingewiesen: Sehen wie ein Algorithmus, Fühlen wie ein Datenfluss, Denken wie ein Analytiker, mit Subjektivitäten, die wie eine Drohne
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a recent essay published with Lundi Matin (#369, 06/02/2023). On the desire to smash time Why is life confined to its biological temporality (work time, the cycle of expenditure and recuperation, exhaustion and consumption) unliveable in the strict sense? Why
There was no future, but it wasn’t like anyone expected. 2003. We’re wandering through the industrial spectres and overgrown dereliction of the Lea Valley.It’s like the world has ended.A world has ended here, in fact. But now nonhuman worlds teem
In ancient times religion was a form of binding, obligation, and bond between the divine and human. After the Enlightenment this binding was severed, and irreligion cut the bonds or knots that held the human to its objective sense of
Speculative Posthumanism: The Inhuman Core of Speculative Non-Metaphysics
…suicide is the decisive political act of our times.― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious RhapsodyIt is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.― Emile Cioran, The Trouble with being Born Base materialism begins in the tomb, a world
The Suicidal Civilization: Technopessimism and the Coming Collapse