Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world. — Read on http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4600-bifo-diary-of-the-psycho-deflation Once a virus as lethal as this is seized by a mechanism of capture, a body organization in forced quarantine, for instance, it mutates into a semiotic gangrene whose effect on the already deterritorialized nerve system, the brain … Continue reading Verso
[This occured to me while watching a zombie apocalypse]} The state may try to experiment to transmute the schizoid into the paranoiac known for its conservatism and patronizing of totalitarian ideals, thus, lends it wholesale mass support for blanket security imposition (ive seen armored police cars stationed near my place, with combat ready security personnel) … Continue reading On Zombies and Schizoids
[This occured to me while watching a zombie apocalypse]} The state may try to experiment to transmute the schizoid into the paranoiac known for its conservatism and patronizing of totalitarian ideals, thus, lends it wholesale mass support for blanket security imposition (ive seen armored police cars stationed near my place, with combat ready security personnel) … Continue reading On Zombies and Schizoids
Whichever is the case, the virus imitating the rotary motion of drives without settling on a final object, or the drives imitating a virus which at first glance seems to know no telos (without purpose from the beginning), altogether symptomatically gesture the presence of a speculative attractor, an idea, for instance. In the height of … Continue reading Viral Organology
Apropos his ‘Inhuman’ essay, I found myself in partial agreement with the necessity, as he put it, to cross the cognitive Rubicon; ‘a synthetic and constructible passage’, pertaining to the journey of intelligence itself (re: compare with the epigenesis of reason ala Kant) which, however, contra Kant, aims toward the impersonal overcoming of the human … Continue reading Backread on Reza Negarestani
In his Freedom essay, Schelling attributes to the abyss of the past a certain ‘inhuman freedom’, an ‘atemporal will’ that is more previous than all formerity combined – an ‘unwritten revelation’. This abysmal origin always places being ‘in darkness’ but does so only to make a point – that this origin is possible to be … Continue reading Containable being
Covid-19 is a quantum revolution flipping phenomenological platforms, disturbing spaces in 3D to accomodate a word line in 4D perspective (as it does when it kills everyone’s expectation before killing their lungs). It exhibits the property of Timothy Morton’s hyperobject: when you’re looking at covid-19 (phenomenologically as it disturbs comfort zones, existential modalities, and commonsense … Continue reading The unprethinkable
There’s a lot to cover here. But the human evolution is an unfinished detective story, like who killed who. “What’s more, the discovery suggests that early modern humans were likely replaced by Neanderthals in this region (Eurasia) by around 170,000 years ago, while highlighting the importance of southeast Europe and the eastern Mediterranean in human … Continue reading Whodunit
New research from the nation of Belize, Central America, has revealed that ancient Maya culture responded to population and environmental pressures by creating massive agricultural features in wetlands, potentially increasing atmospheric CO2 and methane through burning forests and farming.
A word present in a passage written on the primary side of the papyrus has conventionally been viewed as a Greek term that translates as “charmed” or “bewitched”. The new imaging, however, reveals that it is unquestionably another word, which translates as “enslaved”.
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 