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 →

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 →

The Future is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds by Matt Bluemink

It’s finally here! The official release date for my new book The Future is Not Lost is 24th of June Continue reading →

“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 →