Introduction Subtractive ontologies – like those of Alain Badiou or Quentin Meillassoux – hold that Being is inaccessible to thought or experience. Rather, Being is indexed for thought by a hole in thought; an opening onto an Outside uncorrelated with thought or subjectivity. I will argue that posthumanist ontologies are, likewise, subtractive operations […]
Tag: Accelerationism
XENOPHILIA
* This is the text of a presentation given remotely May 3 2019 at the conference A Sad & Lonely Constellation: Navigating the Antinomies of Technological Hope at the Caffè Letterario in Milan. Its prospectus is “to navigate through the thick swarm of hopes surrounding the body of Artificial Intelligence as it accelerates towards us.” […]
Neorationalist, Posthuman Agency and All that Jazz
My article ‘Promethean and Posthuman Freedom: Brassier on Improvisation and Time’ is out now in Volume 4, Issue 2 of the open-source journal Performance Philosophy. Html and pdf versions are available from the abstract page here
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
The Inhuman (a quick read)
Originally posted on Toy Philosophy:
Last year, I was asked by friends to distill the thesis of the labor of the inhuman in two or three pages. This post is the product of my attempt at capturing the main points. I should add that I have now some critical objections about this piece but that…
Dark Glamour
‘[Real ungrounding] acknowledges the constant production of novelty and independence—such that production is ungrounded with respect to both past and future, and therefore has no definable starting point and no definable end point, only a rule for its operations: the Weltgesetz.’ — ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇_▇▇▇▇_▇▇_AI (@qdnoktsqfr) December 30, 2017
Land and Acceleration Limited
This lucid discussion of the splendours and miseries of accelerationism with Ben Noys, Nina Power and Andy Beckett is one of a set of primers on the concept which includes Beckett’s recent Guardian piece and an excellent “quick and dirty” guide from Nick Land over at Jacobite. If I’ve a criticism of the former pieces, it’s that […]
Cthulhoid Prometheus
Prometheanism rejects eco/identity politics and embraces the disequilibrium induced by modernity and radical Enlightenment. Against those who would retain nature as an unbidden “gift” outside the sphere of production, it enjoins the wholesale “reengineering of ourselves and our world on a more rational basis”. But what is the limit of planetary or cosmic engineering? Since […]
Angelic abstract for Tuning Speculation IV
Abstract (accepted) for the forthcoming Tuning Speculations in Toronto this November – Angel Spike -The Politics of Advanced Noncompliance The modernist and Promethean projects are self-undermining. The systematic complexity of modern technique precludes binding it to norms or projects. The methods of compliance are noncompliant, disseminative, mutable. Since it rejects givens, purposes and […]
Memories of the Body
Aesthetically, this sequence recalls an avant-garde cinema where speech floats; freed from an expository role. One thinks of the literary allusions in Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (Kasdan 1976) or perhaps Chris Marker’s La Jetée: still images linked by a reflective narration. Reflection and momentum has been restored. The future has been put out of the loop, for now. As […]
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