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New Sci-fi Media, Anti-Hauntology, and the Future of Cinema | Blue Labyrinths
New Sci-fi Media, Anti-Hauntology, and the Future of Cinema | Blue Labyrinths
Faceshopping: Deconstructed Club and the Queer Futurity In February 2021, after electronic musician SOPHIE’s death, Matt Bluemink wrote a blog post to discuss how SOPHIE and other artists seem to h…
TikTok and Taboo: Mysticism in the Information Age | Blue Labyrinths
TikTok and Taboo: Mysticism in the Information Age | Blue Labyrinths
“Animism has endowed things with souls; industrialism turns souls into things.” — Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment It is well attested that languages across Euras…
Giorgio Agamben: Atomic Warfare and the End of Humanity | Blue Labyrinths
Giorgio Agamben: Atomic Warfare and the End of Humanity | Blue Labyrinths
By Giorgio AgambenTranslated by Lena Bloch In this article, translated into English by Lena Bloch, the Italian philosopher and author of Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben makes a timely contribution to Ka…
The Fourth Wall: The Lynchian Aesthetic of I Saw the TV Glow | Blue Labyrinths
The Fourth Wall: The Lynchian Aesthetic of I Saw the TV Glow | Blue Labyrinths
“We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.” — Anne Carson, Antigonick The fourth wall is, very simply, a testament to fictionality; ergo, the characters canno…
Cybernetic Discourse Analysis: “Mother Was an AI”
Cybernetic Discourse Analysis: “Mother Was an AI”
This is an edited excerpt from Giorgi Vachnadze’s book Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence published by Becoming Press. At the advent of the 20th century, before digital computer…
On Marble, Texture and Networks
On Marble, Texture and Networks
i. “How many million times she had seen her face, and always with the same imperceptible contraction! She pursed her lips when she looked in the glass. It was to give her face point. That was her s…
[Video] Ray Nayler Interview
[Video] Ray Nayler Interview
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Octopuses, AI, and the Future of the Nation State: In Conversation with Ray Nayler
Octopuses, AI, and the Future of the Nation State: In Conversation with Ray Nayler
Click here to watch the full video interview on our new YouTube channel. MB: Hi Ray. Your book The Mountain in the Sea explores themes of environmentalism, AI, and interspecies communication. What …
Taylor Swift and Totalitarianism
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 a sentiment amongst Swifies that if you wrong Taylor Swift, you will fall. They call it ‘ta…
Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism
Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism
News of the mass of layoffs by Condé Nast, as well as discourse on the decline of music journalism and questions of its purpose in general have many fat-cat apologists agreeing that the industry’s …
What Is Solarpunk?
What Is Solarpunk?
London Book Launch - Semiotics of the End
London Book Launch - Semiotics of the End
Enjoy a late afternoon with wine, music and Alessandro Sbordoni.
Afterword to Semiotics of the End: New Beginnings
Afterword to Semiotics of the End: New Beginnings
Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse
Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse
Foams and Networks: Sloterdijk and Latour’s Atmospheric Philosophies
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 down—it is breaking down—it’s being fixed, you are not too conf…
Barbie & Dragons: On the Subversion of Play
Barbie & Dragons: On the Subversion of Play
A child aimlessly moves their toy train in circles, oblivious to the realities of transportation. In play, the models move for their own sake, not to move goods and people. Like Theodor Adorno put …
Terminal Velocity: The Cultural Logic of the Dance Music Edit
Terminal Velocity: The Cultural Logic of the Dance Music Edit
The presence of the edit looms large in today’s UK dance music scene. Also called bootlegs, refixes and reworks, edits involve liberally lifting large chunks of popular songs and reworking them acc…
AI and the Instrumentalization of Fear
AI and the Instrumentalization of Fear
Weird Fictions & Neoliberal Horrors: Joel Lane, Gary Budden, and the British Urban Imaginary
Weird Fictions & Neoliberal Horrors: Joel Lane, Gary Budden, and the British Urban Imaginary
Octopuses, AI, and the Future of the Nation State: In Conversation with Ray Nayler
Octopuses, AI, and the Future of the Nation State: In Conversation with Ray Nayler
The End of the Internet: An Interview with Geert Lovink
The End of the Internet: An Interview with Geert Lovink
Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein’s Ethical Machine
Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein’s Ethical Machine
Arabic Hauntology: The Sound of Habibi Funk Records
Arabic Hauntology: The Sound of Habibi Funk Records
The Filmic Non-Place: Notes on Devirtualization in Cinema
The Filmic Non-Place: Notes on Devirtualization in Cinema
The Duality of Time in Eastern and Western Philosophy
The Duality of Time in Eastern and Western Philosophy
Ultra-Blackness in Music: A Non-Mixology
Ultra-Blackness in Music: A Non-Mixology
Not All Art is Beautiful (and That’s Good)
Not All Art is Beautiful (and That’s Good)
Our Desert Islands: Deleuze, Sloterdijk, and the Pandemic
Our Desert Islands: Deleuze, Sloterdijk, and the Pandemic
Semiotics of the End: Turbo-Violence
Semiotics of the End: Turbo-Violence
Borges on Universalism and Nationalism
Borges on Universalism and Nationalism
An impossible interview with Georges Bataille
An impossible interview with Georges Bataille
Sartre’s Existential Lobsters
Sartre’s Existential Lobsters
How the Wilderness Calls: A Critique of Red Dead Redemption 2
How the Wilderness Calls: A Critique of Red Dead Redemption 2
Anti-Hauntology: Arca, AI, and the Future of Innovation
Anti-Hauntology: Arca, AI, and the Future of Innovation
Anti-Hauntology: Mark Fisher, SOPHIE, and the Music of the Future
Anti-Hauntology: Mark Fisher, SOPHIE, and the Music of the Future
The Impossible Made Possible
The Impossible Made Possible
Gender Bubble: A Few Points from Judith Butler Explained via a Sexually Ambiguous Clownfish
Gender Bubble: A Few Points from Judith Butler Explained via a Sexually Ambiguous Clownfish
The Story-Creature Anomaly: Jeff Vandermeer and Digital Ecosystems
The Story-Creature Anomaly: Jeff Vandermeer and Digital Ecosystems
I’m Not Your Mary: The Derridean Différance in Silent Hill 2
I’m Not Your Mary: The Derridean Différance in Silent Hill 2
The Rat Maze: Capitalism and Consciousness
The Rat Maze: Capitalism and Consciousness
Derrida’s Account on Hospitality
Derrida’s Account on Hospitality
What’s Wrong With Streaming? The Death of Music as Art
What’s Wrong With Streaming? The Death of Music as Art
Give Up the Future: Organ Tapes and Tiqqun
Give Up the Future: Organ Tapes and Tiqqun
Born in the Lost Future: Bladee and Hauntology
Born in the Lost Future: Bladee and Hauntology
Almere: The First Solarpunk City?
Almere: The First Solarpunk City?
Meta-Relativism 1: When East Meets West
Meta-Relativism 1: When East Meets West
The Ethics of Taxation: Is it Right to Tax Meat?
The Ethics of Taxation: Is it Right to Tax Meat?
Semiotics of the End: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza
Semiotics of the End: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza
Salò, or the 120 Days of Corona
Salò, or the 120 Days of Corona
The Philosophy of Jungle and New Breakcore Music: From Rufige Kru to Machine Girl
The Philosophy of Jungle and New Breakcore Music: From Rufige Kru to Machine Girl
Auroville: Landscapes of Life, Living and Being
Auroville: Landscapes of Life, Living and Being
Giorgio Agamben: Atomic Warfare and the End of Humanity
Giorgio Agamben: Atomic Warfare and the End of Humanity
Gaming: A Techno-Cultural Archaeology
Gaming: A Techno-Cultural Archaeology
The End of the Internet: An Interview with Geert Lovink
The End of the Internet: An Interview with Geert Lovink
Digital Reincarnation: LuYang NetiNeti
Digital Reincarnation: LuYang NetiNeti
Moebius: 40 Days in the Desert
Moebius: 40 Days in the Desert
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