Issue #1: Futures
Our first issue is out. We’ll let it speak for itself.
After Lucretius
Ulysse Malcoeur’s exploration of anarchism, pessimism, ecological crisis, disillusionment, and living – not just surviving – without the straightjacket of meaning or purpose.
Treydon L’s essay on modernity and its inevitable negation finds finitude in the ecologically impossible object.
Illustration by Louie Claesson.
“The coda is that, as the ones immersed in monstrous appearances, we’ll be there when the future parties arrive—to welcome them and become intimate with them.”
On entanglements with monstrous friends, by Elena Stravraki.
Illustration by Jo Rüßmann.
“Our technological society is not technological simply because we use a lot of technology; it is technological because we have become elements of technique.”
Nihilist Communism’s stellar introduction to Jacques Ellul’s prescient work on technique and its hegemony.
Illustration by Sophie Fretter.
Heidegger at the End of the World
New dispatch: Peine forte et dure
Andrejs Mantenieks’ ongoing regular report on the madness of the modern Political through the lens of Heidegger’s Basic Problems of Phenomenology lectures.
Illustration by Louie Claesson.
Sirulian societal self-consumption, or parasitic emergent intelligence? Soumya Ghosh asks whether humanity will hit the ecological hard limit, or be superseded by the externalisation of its own intelligence. The second of our features from our upcoming inaugural issue.
Illustration by Louie Claesson.
“Fionn was a node of the cybernanthrope, as were over half the human population who swam through hyperreality. . . . This alienation was, at bottom, rooted in time.”
A tale of insurrection and impotence by Xavier.
Cyanobacteria
Cherfa’s “curvilinear analysis of posthumanist political philosophy”, and the first featured piece from the upcoming Ortus issue: a dizzying and virtuosic work of ontology and political philosophy, the question is not perhaps of what the future will be, but of how the origami paper of our world will fold on the way there—before it never folds again.
Illustration by Louie Claesson.
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“Fionn was a node of the cybernanthrope, as were over half the human population who swam through hyperreality. . . . This alienation was, at bottom, rooted in time.”
Mounting Joy is the third feature from our upcoming inaugural issue, a work of theory-fiction on an act of resistance in a time of impotence, by Xavier.
Sirulian societal self-consumption, or parasitic emergent intelligence? In The Caterpillar and the Wasp, Soumya Ghosh asks whether humanity will hit the ecological hard limit, or be superseded by the externalisation of its own intelligence. The second of our features from our upcoming inaugural issue.
Cherfa’s Cyanobacteria is the first of our featured pieces from the upcoming Ortus issue: a dizzying and virtuosic work of ontology and political philosophy, the question is not perhaps of what the future will be, but of how the origami paper of our world will fold on the way there—before it never folds again.
“Is this what philosophy is going to be? A clearing of the barbarous, an encounter with the inhuman horror of the dancing body beyond redemption – remember the mad dancers in front of the statue of St. Vitus who himself was boiled to death?” Andrejs Mantenieks’ Heidegger at the End of the World continues the teutonic sermon, and things are getting pretty dark.
Ulysse Malcoeur’s Neoleviathan continues with its third chapter, a deep dive into the wicked problems facing the UK, with the goal of shoring up general principles of leviathanisation. With supply chain disruptions looming, space militarisation escalating, and the ever-growing threat of devastating climate change, we can already see who is trying to get ahead of the curve: “If nothing else, a leap in the dark is better than a noose and a bucket.”