During the final years of the Institute my father was able to take over a third unit on the Docks. U3 was nicknamed the ‘The Overflow’ and reserved for the specialty suicides, the ones that had become refractory, distracted. They were true agents of decay, without appurtenance to time. I suppose that is his favored […]
Interview in Wryd Signal
In August, fresh and staggering from the aftermath of Oxbow’s excellent London gig, I had a chat with the charming Sean Oscar at the Haringey nerve centre of the ever-wonderful Wyrd Signal podcast. Expect more Wyrd encounters in 2019
Note on the Aesthetics of Self-Harm
“I’m tortured by the feeling of drowning. Under you, under society, politics, the decay of nature, my lack of interest, and I feel desperate,” Puce Mary (AKA Copenhagen-based artist Frederikke Hoffmeier) is one of the ‘noise’ artists I’ve been listening too increasingly over the last few years (These also include the SF based avant-garde veterans […]
Hanover Talk: Biomorphic Horror
Philosophical posthumanisms oppose anthropocentrism – the presumption that reality must be thought about from a human perspective. But what remains of embodiment in post-anthropocentric thought? Should it retain a place for the body or the aesthetic as distinctive ways of encountering reality? If not, how can it adequately describe of our ‘posthuman predicament’ as bodies […]
partial sexbot superthread
Are there any lefties out there that want to debate #sexbots arguing that it’s a form of slavery? — ◉ (@brightabyss) October 19, 2018 Buying and selling a rubberized doll with mechanical parts isn’t slavery, I would say. Buying and selling a human is slavery, on the other hand. Can only humans be slaves? — […]
Experiments in Unliving: Biomorphism and the Insufficiency of Philosophy
This is the third, possibly the last, of an informal series of posts considering the relationship between unbound posthumanism and the Non-Philosophy of François Laruelle. Here, rather than vaingloriously attempting to criticize Laruelle’s work, I simply attempt to note some contrasts and affinities. To summarise: the positions or projects are akin insofar as they question the […]
Against Non-Philosophical Humanism
My account of unbound posthumanism (See Roden 2018 and here) draws some methodological inspiration from François Laruelle’s Non-Philosophy, though its point of departure and orientation is distinct. For Laruelle, all philosophies are like hallucinations that hallucinate their reality or truth (Laruelle 2011, 16). This principle of ‘philosophical sufficiency’ guarantees that whatever scheme for carving […]
