The 4th manifesto (see PDF on webpage for “Life is Good” show at Galleria Federico Vavassori http://federicovavassori.com/content/2-exhibitions/10-life-is-good/eric-schmid-4th-manifesto-the-zeroth-and-final-manifesto.pdf) is a roadmap to the Occult. It walks through different thoughts and perspectives because of a pluralism. We all have the same God. …
…measured against the conditions of the present, communism itself embodies the most alien of all possible futures. —Edmund Berger Edmund Berger author of Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present (see my review) has for years done his …
Edmund Berger: On Art and Revolutionary Transformation in the Age of Blockchain
Francois Matheron has suggested that the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of providing a comprehensive assessment to the work of Louis Althusser results from the ‘generalized uncertainty’ of an oeuvre constructed in the “dimension of catastrophe” and designed by its …
The Hooks Beneath the Bait / Entrapment and Escape in Althusser and Art
I want to begin by briefly considering Francois Laruelle’s Non-philosophy project alongside the philosophy of Louis Althusser, in order that some of the consequences for an ‚aesthetics of the generic‘ (or what for Laruelle would be a Non-aesthetics) might be …
Rethinking agency in an AI-driven world – as the AMBIENT REVOLTS conference is trying to do – the critic Krystian Woznicki interviews social thinker Max Haiven about seminal notions of agency under AI-driven financialization. Krystian Woznicki: As you repeatedly point …
The Politics of AI-driven Financialization (Interview with Max Haiven)
Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationism or Eshuns afrofuturism. Rhythm, not speed was the term. As we wrote: »If Rhythm is …
Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationalism or Eshuns afrofuturism. Rhythm, not speed was the term. As we wrote: »If Rhythm is …