Myth and Mass Media Media Studies is a relatively young discipline. But its youth is a disruptive, feverish, tentacular one. There would have been no Media Studies without Marshall McLuhan, and, perhaps, no McLuhan without the outburst of the electronic era, and of mass media. The incalculable influence of mass media on society made necessary to pose certain questions, […] Featured Contributes
Digital Patchwork, Shattered Narratives «The chances are that you are reading these words on a mobile device. There is a good chance that you are spending a lot of time on that device every day. If that is the case, you are not alone» . When I first read the incipit to Digital Tarkovsky, it was 2018. The rudimentary […] Featured Contributes
Remarks for a Metaphysics of Passages – Part III Evil, the tendency to hold forms in their disintegration as if they were not always fragmented, is indispensable to the awareness that each passage is one. Evil is not horror in itself; it is horror for eternity. Featured Contributes
Remarks for a Metaphysics of Passages – Part II The totality of the past – of the images of the past – is the jewel brought as a dowry to a redeemed humanity. "There is a secret understanding between past generations and ours" – secret to everyone, even to the poles of that very understanding Contributes
Remarks for a Metaphysics of Passages – Part I Where theories fail, where cyborgs, brains in tanks, Avatars and Terminators dance without a stage, the real is articulated in the passage. And each passage is a practical dimension, it is the where and the when in which one cannot but proceed, or disintegrate. Contributes
Beyond the End of the Night Responding to Jean Monnet as follows: Europe will make itself in crises, and it will be the sum of the lessons learned on the path it has taken towards its own realisation. Contributes
all that you ever hated all that you ever loved was here Even if there is an order in the cosmos, it does not include the human being. Featured Contributes
Radical Exoticism – Part III Along the irreversible path of universal progress, nothing "wild" is dead, everything rises or will rise again with vehemence and virulence, "right in the heart of our ultra-sophisticated and ultra-vulnerable systems, disarming them" without gasping. Featured Contributes
Radical Exoticism – Part II Once the Earth has been circumscribed as a sphere, as a finite space, through the omnipotence of the media, all that remains is the fatality of circular tourism that is exhausted in the absorption of all differences Featured Contributes
Radical Exoticism – Part I If economy is libidinal, and libido is essentialy economical, can we think of a space in which appears a rational comunality? Featured Contributes
The Hyperobject that therefore We are in (II) The irremediable ontological caesura that materializes between the thing and the way it appears to other things makes all relations move on one, the same, side of the crack, leaving the outside lying on the opposite one. Contributes
Towards a Post-Work Society The politics of time offers a response to the crisis of work, inviting us to talk about the conditions for freedom and the kind of society we want to live in. Featured Contributes
The Hyperobject that therefore We are in (I) Attraction and repulsion coexist, on the one hand as terror for the unknown, on the other as a desire to unveil: a (ir)reality that emerges intermittently, at the interstices of the real, pushing us to question it. Contributes
Exiting the Vampire Castle We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. Featured Contributes
Ecology as Eco-logic Ecology encapsulates a myriad of speeches, often tangent to each other but not directly related, frantically revolving around the nebulous core that is its principle, the question: how do we think ecology? Contributes
Markets, Politics and the Political Can economics be trusted in taking care of the most pressing questions of today in a neutral and unideological way? Featured Contributes
Nihil Be My God “Just because Hitler said that modern art is bad, that doesn’t make it good” ~ Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Reza Negarestani. Now more than ever the discourse on the death of art represents a senseless narrative. Contemporary art—simply understood as the art produced today, beyond any constrained and shallow aesthetic or historical label—is, unmistakably, […] Contributes
Positive Thinking The myth of positive thinking is one of the most peculiar figures of contemporaneity. What are the effects of this existential posture? What is its utility? And what are its causes? Featured Contributes
Desire, Thought Introduction to the "On Desire" Variation. It begins with the question about the ancient, obscure interlacement between desire and thought. But - why desiring? Contributes
