“The Question Concerning Technology Is Political”: Lou Manuel Arsenault on Aztec Cosmotechnic

Following the publication of his acclaimed book Of Enemies and Venison: First Materials for an Aztec Cosmotechnic, Matt and Alessandro Continue reading →

Shine On, Crazy Daimon: Why James Hillman Still Speaks to Our Age Without Soul

On topics ranging from psychiatry to social media, the post-Jungian depth psychologist – born 100 years ago – still has Continue reading →

Who Left a Labubu on Marx’s Grave?

Post-Irony, Jouissance, and Scrolling while Taking a Shit Recently something made me smile: the news that one of those unsettling Continue reading →

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 →