The Anthropocene and the End of Postmodernism
In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard famously described the coming age of postmodernism as a the dissolution of grand narratives, that is, overarching schemes or horizons […]
Author Archives: edmundberger
Unconditional Acceleration and the Question of Praxis: Some Preliminary Thoughts
One of the major points of contention concerning unconditional accelerationism (henceforth U/ACC) is a perceived slight or rejection of any ‘positive’ form of political activity or organizing. The complaint can […]
Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)
(worldmap: command and control) Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist […]
Into the Mystic: Capitalism and the Structuralization of Spirituality
In his fantastic book The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, Paul N. Edwards forwards a quasi-literary reading of the way power and subjectivity […]
Learning the Future: Bogdanov, Neurath, and Scientific Socialism
Socialism has had a sort of poor track record as of late when it comes to science and technology. From Stalin’s violent repression of Mendelian genetics (and privileging of the […]
Laruelle on Science and Technology
In his fairly recent book Laruelle: Against the Digital, Alexander Galloway surmises the idiosyncratic non-philosopher’s views on science as “elevating it to such a degree that it becomes synonymouswith non […]
The Violence of Neoliberalism: Microfinance and Suicide in India
From the Business Insider: More than 200 poor, debt-ridden residents of Andhra Pradesh killed themselves in late 2010, according to media reports compiled by the government of the south Indian […]
