Motorway: Transformative Ethics of the Car

A boundless landscape, roads stretching far beyond the horizon. Wind in the hair, the sky overhead, and society somewhere far Continue reading →

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 →

The Politics of Modulation: Simondon’s Influence on Deleuze’s ‘Societies of Control’

Deleuze’s short essay ‘Postscript on Societies of Control’ has become one of the most widely discussed individual essays in continental Continue reading →

Anti-Hauntology: Derrida and Stiegler on Dancing With Ghosts and Education

in a small ghost town, there’s a little arcadewhere the poltergeists play their video games In my previous post I Continue reading →

The Rat Maze: Capitalism and Consciousness

Hacking Consciousness Founded in San Francisco in 2013 by a former MIT roboticist, the Consciousness Hacking Meetup group has expanded Continue reading →

Foams and Networks: Sloterdijk and Latour’s Atmospheric Philosophies

This is Sloterdijk’s explicitness: You are on life support, it’s fragile, it’s technical, it’s public, it’s political, it could break Continue reading →

Art, Technology and Truth in Martin Heidegger’s Thought

In mythology, autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός “self,” and χθών “soil”; i.e. “people sprung from earth itself”) are those mortals Continue reading →