Solarpunk: A Short Guide to the Decolonization of the Sun

The following article is an edited transcript of a talk organized by the University of Amsterdam, titled Planetary Ecologies and Continue reading →

Against Symbolic Misery: On Architecture, Music, and Literature

Bernard Stiegler, in Symbolic Misery, Volume 1: The Hyperindustrial Epoch, argues that the question of culture is at the heart Continue reading →

Zuboff’s Dystopia: The Politics of the Lifeworld

Intimations of Dystopia The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff was published in German in 2018. English language editions were Continue reading →

Oceanic Logic: On Vagueness and Mass Nouns

Vagueness and mass nouns have been unconquerable land for the logic founded by Aristotle, mathematized by Boole, and developed by Continue reading →

Future Reloaded: An Interview with Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni

XX121 is a large language model developed in 2021 by a team of researchers at Miskatonic University led by Julie Continue reading →

Cybernetic Discourse Analysis: “Mother Was an AI”

This is an edited excerpt from Giorgi Vachnadze’s book Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence published by Becoming Press. At the Continue reading →

TikTok and Taboo: Mysticism in the Information Age

“Animism has endowed things with souls; industrialism turns souls into things.”  — Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment Continue reading →

Imane Khelif, Immediate Transcendence, and Fascism

Setting the Stage: Imane Khelif and Fascists The response to Imane Khelif has largely been of a fascist nature. Many Continue reading →