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 […]
Category Archives: Srnicek
Nick Srnicek on Crises and Cognitive Mapping
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
This is the second of a three-part series on ‘what we talked about at ISA’. The first part on technology in International Relations…
City-state Survivalism
In terms of politics climate change trumps everything else. It should be our primary concern if we want to survive or live with any kind of comfort*. Therefore all design […]
dismantling the future: lunatic riffs on extinction engineering
Just finished my first pass of the first chapter of Inventing the Future. Its pretty familiar but still quite dense for that. One of the lurking monsters beneath the chapter […]
The Semantic Apocalypse
Originally posted on Speculative Heresy:
Last week, I was privileged to be a respondent to a lecture entitled “The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the…
A Future That Doesn’t Work? Natalie Bennett & Nick Srnicek
“Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for […]
synthetic zerØ 
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