“When the World Comes to an End, I Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief”: 25 Years on from the Broken Timelines of Donnie Darko
I couldn’t know why at that age, but watching Donnie Darko split open a melancholy in me that was hard Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths
An online magazine focusing on philosophy, culture, and a collection of interesting ideas.
Technology as Politics by Other Means: Gil Durán’s ‘The Nerd Reich’ and the Genealogy of Tech-Fascism
The Nerds Take Washington About two days before Trump’s second inauguration, VP-elect JD Vance attended a party at Peter Thiel’s Continue reading
The Society of the Screen: Collective and Personal Media
The following article is an edited transcript of a talk organized by Studio Image at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Continue reading
Futurity Matrix: Four Visions of the Future
In writing a contemporary critique of Sadie Plant and Nick Land’s text ‘Cyberpositive’, Frédéric Neyrat’s recent article for Blue Labyrinths Continue reading
The Deception of the Genuine Self: Perfect Days and the Troubles of Cultural Capitalism
The Illusion of Inner Peace: Perfect Days‘ Pathological Abstraction and Stasis The narrative of Perfect Days is seemingly very simple Continue reading
Decadeology: Hyperpop, Archive Fever, and the Sound of the 2020s
“The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, Continue reading
The Future of Strangers: On “Cyberpositive” by Nick Land and Sadie Plant
The final sentence of Nick Land and Sadie Plant’s text titled Cyberpositive (1994)—written one year before the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Continue reading
Welcome Ithaca, Farewell Greece: On Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus
1. A camera, a sigh, a disappearing poetry “Why can one not straightaway keep hold of whatever he sees and Continue reading
