Monthly Archives: June 2017

“Everybody’s searching, you know. Everybody’s trying to make the journey. But they’re going about it wrong. They’re seeking the wrong kind of privacy, the old privacy, never again to be found. Now here’s an item about a seventy-year-old man who’s … Continue reading →

“This text is an experiment with a speculative form which is neither as “objective” as science, nor as subjective as science-fiction. ‘Science non-fiction’ is not just a neologism. Even though it involves world-making, its logic is closer to design, for … Continue reading →

“Under current conditions, atomization serves – uniquely – as an inexhaustible tube of reactionary glue. Profound aversion to the process is the sole common denominator of our contemporary cultural opposition, stretching from traditionalist Catholicism to alt-right ethno-nationalism. “Whatever our preferred … Continue reading →

https://soundcloud.com/theguardianlongread/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in-by-andy-beckett https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in meanwhile here in the actual world we live in http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-digital-monopolies-control-art/

“Helen Hester (academic) and Dianne Bauer (artist and writer) of the zeno-feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks gave two related presentations. Hester Hester took Linda Stupart’s 2016 book Virus as an example to discuss the tensions between discourses about objects and … Continue reading →

Originally posted on lukebennett13:
My new article, ‘Cold War Ruralism: civil defense planning, country ways and the founding of the UK’s Royal Observer Corps’ fallout monitoring posts network’, has been advance-published online today. It will eventually feature in a ‘Cold…

“Who arrived at this article by way of rigorous, self-contained thought and not through a bunch of hyperlinked wormholes teleporting us to increasingly curated and commodified digital spaces? Who here has arrived without making jokes that later became sincere, having … Continue reading →

“While we are often Othered, we are not aliens. Though our ancestors were mutilated, we are not mutants. Post-black is a misnomer. Post-colonialism is too. The most likely future is one in which we only have ourselves and this planet.” … Continue reading →