Viroid Life Excerpt from the article “Viroid Life. On machines, technics, and evoIution”, in Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition, K. Ansell-Pearson, Routledge, London, 1997, pp. 145-150 Philosophies of Difference, particularly through the efforts of Deleuze and Guattari, have offered new perspectives in respect to the question of technology, freeing it from the biol... Variations Featured
The Killing of a Sacred Whale An encounter takes place off the northern coast of Europe. It has as its subject the Grindadráp, the ancient and sacred Fær Øer Islands’ whaling, and it tells of the tension between modernity and tradition, between myth and efficiency, progress and identity. Chaosmotics continues to expand its analysis on mythopoiesis through this excerpt by Nicklas […] Variations Featured
Machine Decision Is Not Final – I. “Spanning borders between different worlds, histories, futures, and foundational models, Machine Decision is Not Final is not only a timely reappraisal of the stakes of AI development, but a tool for constructing more global imaginaries for the future of AI.” This Fall, Urbanomic will release Machine Decision is Not Final, an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection […] Variations Featured In evidenza
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
The Impersonal Within Us Bogna Konior highlights the ways in which the human conceives of the inhuman; she writes about AI, the links between mysticism and the Internet, non-philosophy, animism, her own history, the future. We asked questions about technology; we were made to glimpse a broader - and, at the same time, more intimate - horizon. Variations Featured
Remembering the Future: on Ruins, Memory, and Rituals This article is a transcript of the presentation for the November 11, 2022 exhibition, Tecnomemories: fossils of the present, held in Milan at Frigoriferi Milanesi and organized by Chaosmotics and the Uno+Uno+Uno association. Technomemories Featured
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
TECHNOMORPHOSES In Kafka’s Metamorphosis there is no radical metamorphosis, but the installation of human consciousness in the body of an insect. In this way, Germán Sierra highlights the inability of contemporary thought to think adequately about change – an inability which, in the face of the mass and volume of transformations that our relationship with technology […] Variations Featured
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
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
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
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
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
What Is Chaosmotics? The Manifesto represents the set of our guidelines, the paths we will take and the places we come from. Featured
