Anastrophe I think of the tele-presences enfilading your skin and those others ventriloquizing in your larynx and trachea. You hoped to become something you could not yet see and mined the future for the not-you’s. Acousmatic dreams. You spoke from behind masks, screens, or paradoxical crossing points. In a voice like birds, you propose a […]
New Album: Anastrophe, by EnemyIndustry (with Liner Notes)
“Catastrophe is the past coming apart. Anastrophe is the future coming together.”Sadie Plant and Nick Land. “Cyberpositive,” in: #Accelerate, edited by Robin Mackay and Armen Arvanessian, London: Urbanomic, 2014, pp. 303–14. “The future, always so clear to me, has become like a black highway at night. We were in uncharted territory now… making up history […]
On Spectral (Non-Spooky) Emergence: Bensusan’s Memory Assemblages
Introduction: Naturalising Deconstruction In a 2006 essay that Continental Philosophy Review published in the teeth of Reviewer 2’s best adversarial efforts I argue that Derrida’s work deploys structures elicited from subjectivist thought within a topic-neutral account of how signifying states respond to contextual alterations in their systems and substrates. I also claim that deconstruction is […]
Metanoia – feat Marika Zeimbekis (vocals)
I think you had always rejected life intellectually. I detected a kind of pleasure in that. Even if you denied it, I felt you shiver with inverted carnality. ‘This is already a kind of space travel’ Anomalies were truer than skin. And you were that with an insistence that could be mistaken for depression by […]
Black Circuits – feat Amy Ireland
A setting of ‘Demons’ the first part of Amy Ireland’s ‘Black Circuits’: Code for the Numbers of Come’ using processed audio from her reading at TSpec3 in 2016. URL for article below: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/80/100016/black-circuit-code-for-the-numbers-to-come/ lyrics DemonsWe are the virus of a new world disorder.—VNS Matrix1 “January 1946, Mojave Desert. Jack Parsons, a rocket scientist and Thelemite, […]
Incipient
Material from the first part of an improvised set I performed in Madrid with Ed Keller for the Cosmic Brains Symposium at Matadero Media Lab. The last part of the performance is featured in a video of the Symposium here youtu.be/EGbBnCsOP-w?si=aVP8lwFUB1Sczqys
The End of Agency – Video and Abstract
My talk for the excellent ‘Intelligence Unbound’ symposium at Foreign Objekt (Abstract below) In this presentation I review two arguments for a subtractive or ‘unbounded’ view of posthumanist agency, which, I will suggest, is the only posthumanism worth having. According to the subtractive view, our ordinary practices of assigning and interpreting agents from within what […]
Snuff Memories: an interview with Tom Bland for Spontaneous Poetics
Your new book, Snuff Memories, is about to come out. How did this work come about? Snuff Memories has its immediate genesis in a prose piece ‘In the Country of the Broken’, published in Gary Shipley’s journal, gobbet back in 2017. But I guess it goes deeper than that for me. I’ve always had a […]
Titane (2021)
Julia Ducournau’s Titane repeatedly bruises and shocks the viewer with the reversible relationship between sensuality, intimacy and untrammelled violence; a slippage concretized in the primped high-performance cars on whose streamlined bodies its central character, Alexia (Agathe Rousselle), writhes erotically at the motor show where she works as a dancer. While our digital devices, with their […]
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