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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

On Sinofuturism: Cosmotechnics and Dis-orient-ation

In The Question Concerning Technology in China, Yuk Hui claims that sinofuturism as it exists in its current form, i.e. Continue reading →

Multiplication of Organs: Desire, Humanity and Technology

The Multiplication of Organs (MoO) [1] is not the Deleuzian Body without Organs (BwO), it is not the Žižekian Organ Continue reading →

Taylor Swift and Totalitarianism

The system is broken. The celebrity is brighter than the sun. Only she can decide when it is day. There’s Continue reading →

Remembering Baudrillard’s Contaminated Discourse

The parasite serves as a useful simulacrum for post-modernism. Post-modernity engages us with a kind of viral discourse, which seeks Continue reading →