The Anthropocene and the End of Postmodernism
In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard famously described the coming age of postmodernism as a the dissolution of grand narratives, that is, overarching schemes or horizons of...
View ArticleS.C Hickman on The Machinic Unconscious
[Bernard Stiegler] relates that the automated processes implemented by algorithmic governmentality to Félix Guattari’s concepts of molecular machinic unconscious and machinic enslavement. The example...
View ArticleThe A.I Cargo Cult | Kevin Kelly
The Myth of a Superhuman A.I By Kevin Kelly I’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our jobs and resources, and humans will go...
View ArticleThe Poememenon: Form as Occult Technology | Amy Ireland
“Hyperstition is the real truth of philosophy—if not the basic, horrific form of reality itself” – Amy Ireland The folks at Urbanomic regularly put out compelling essays that are both timely and...
View ArticleThe Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity
Hickman with another brilliant set of codes to disrupt the current matrix: “This distancing of world, subject, and object would form the basis of our current secular culture and civilization which has...
View ArticleBabette Babich | Life is a Test: On Ivan Illich
Below American philosopher Babette Babich talks about Ivan Illich’s political philosophy of being human. Babich is known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for...
View ArticleGiant Power: Technology, Energy, and the Beginnings of Post-Truth America
Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, presenting at the Mahindra Center on October 18, 2017: Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. She became...
View ArticleGlobal Wyrding & Deeply Adaptive Patchworking (transcript)
Below is a transcription of a presentation given at Wyrd/Patchwork #2, an event which took place at Punctum in Prague on 26 October 2018, and organized by the folks at Diffractions Collective. The...
View ArticleDavid Harvey on Infrastructure, Smart Cities, and Sharing Economics
On November 14, 2016 — as part of the Barcelona Initiative for Technological Sovereignty (BITS) — David Harvey sat down with Evgeny Morozov to discuss Trump’s election and what it means for...
View ArticleModeling Wicked Problems
Most Anthropocene concerns are “wicked problems,” complex problems that defy a single answer and may never be solved definitively. They involve highly complicated systems that are impossible to fully...
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