(excerpt from a forthcoming publication on island studies) The game-theoretic approach discussed in the previous sections as a strategy of diffracting power from the peripheries and margins of social order is not independent of the overarching system that conditions its practice within a conquered space. In game theory, however, the system that makes these determinations … Continue reading Detourning liquidity
Category: Island Studies
[an Island Studies work-in-progress] What to expect of a volatine planet, a cosmic island in the Kantian sense, confronting techno-climatic entropy? The entropy wave, for instance, has reached an exponential rate in terms of commercial and intergovernmental cooperation laying down the initial template for a space colony, beginning with Mars. In the age of space … Continue reading Notes on new island realism in the background of the cosmic archipelago
Between a desert island as a mythical concept of origin (Deleuze, 2004) and what Deleuze described (later, with Guattari) as a fluent space of composition, independent of “any determined path” (1987: 371), comes a concept of a people that literature alone commands a power to invoke; a people producing itself as force producing new lines … Continue reading Mapping A People to Come
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 