From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future

Recently, I came across a paper by the great historian, and philosopher of technology, Lewis Mumford, titled ‘Authoritarian and Democratic Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Turbo-Violence

The image cannot present itself without a certain force, without a certain amount of violence. The image must always remove, Continue reading →

Georges Bataille and the Continuity of Life

What is life? To the historian, writer, and occultist George Bataille, life is a ‘door into existence’ revealing to us Continue reading →

Trash Theory: The “Young-Girl” Deployment

Premiers Matériaux pour une Th´eorie de la Jeune-Fille I just found this weird little book. It’s been referenced here and 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 →

Jonas Mekas’s Cinematic You

This was where the wind blew meI saw youI recorded youI’m not sure I ever understood youI’m just a passerbyFrom Continue reading →

Peter Sloterdijk: Living in the Mountains of Imperial Foam

Peter Sloterdijk was unfortunate in writing about the existential problem of luxury in modern social life, especially given the Eurozone Continue reading →

Laughter as a Critical Tool for Liberation

The question of what society is and how it operates is one that has been analyzed extensively in continental philosophy. Continue reading →