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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

AI and the Instrumentalization of Fear

Introduction In 2023 everything speaks AI. The AI gaze is present in every public discourse and the AI question is Continue reading →

Almere: The First Solarpunk City?

“If Atlantis was the ancient city myth disappeared beneath the waves, Almere is the modern riposte, risen from the sea”, Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Boredom at the End of the World

Dreams about the end of the world are not, perhaps, anymore the fruits of despair and fear alone. They are Continue reading →