Acceleration, Ubiquity & Radical Disjunctures
Terry Smith is an Australian art historian, art critic and artist who currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, New York and Sydney. Since 2001 he has been Andrew W. Mellon […]
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‘The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ – An Interview with Nick Land
‘The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ Interview with Nick Land by Marko Bauer and Andrej Tomažin In your 2014 book Templexity: Disordered Loops through Shanghai Time you write: […]
Relocating Global Assemblages
The remarkable success of methodological uses of the concept of ‘assemblage’ cannot be overstated. Empirical investigation discloses that everything is a composition and result of multiple confluences of force and materiality. Assemblage […]
Leviathan Rots | Vincent Garton
Vincent Garton PhD studies history and political theory at Cambridge, and advocates what he and some of the fun people on the internets are calling “Unconditional Accelerationism“. In a recent […]
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 […]
Control/Crisis/Junk
Datawar In the comments to my previous post, Sketches on Mutant Design, RS Bakker raised an important point on the technologies insulated in the core of neoliberal functionality: “I think […]
The black bloc, the spectacle and the therapy of violence
A mass of black clad bodies move through a thick haze, smoke or tear-gas coagulating the air. Incendiary flashes in the dark; sparks illuminating nothing of the masked faces. […]
The Catastrophic and the Post-apocalyptic
The present is filled with catastrophe and apocalypticism. A certain phrase has been deployed and redeployed in summarising the condition we find ourselves in: it is easier to imagine the end […]
‘Happiness is statistically abnormal’: happiness after nihilism
Happiness is a kind of madness Look around you. Examine the world you live in. Give it a cursory glance. How could you not conclude that happiness is a delusional […]
Riot From Wrong
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10bql8_riot-from-wrong-awarding-winning-doco-on-youth-in-revolt_shortfilms Two years on from the riots that put London on the rack, a documentary about the troubles, Riot From Wrong has been premiered as an online exclusive by Dailymotion Riot from […]
Their good life: Should the state legislate for individual happiness?
‘Men are disturbed not by events, but by their opinion about events.’ – Epictetus Some governments are now providing free psychotherapy to their citizens. Jules Evans asks, ‘Is there a […]
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