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Unlimited Dream Company ('Despairing at last, I decided to die' -J.G. Ballard)

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A tribute to a theorist of freedom

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Machine Intelligence and Extinction

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Mapping A People to Come

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Latest on Giorgio Agamben

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‘Tale of a New Year’

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On Sci-fi and Corona, Ground Zero or Unthinged Empiricism

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The Portal

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On the control society

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On the notion of micropolitics

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‘Let’s all have a laugh and stay alive’

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In Pursuit of the Bold Word

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A brief on memory

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déjà vu

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Hotel Island

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to the crescent moon

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Contour or Abyssal: The Future Ecology of Cities

FeaturedOctober 10, 2015

At 3ammagazine.com

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The Net and Ancient Intelligence

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Unfortunate Post-Secular Modernity

FeaturedAugust 19, 2015April 28, 2020

Iain Hamilton Grant and his crypto-humanism

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Foxtails Brigade

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Bipolar: Scene from a Ward

FeaturedJuly 9, 2015February 26, 2017

Goodbye, Benjamin

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The Fact

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Minister No More!

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Borges on Poetry

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Ulay, Oh

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A Mystery Film

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What’s your favorite lie?

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Protected: Philosophy’s Humanity

FeaturedMay 16, 2015April 28, 2020

Deleuze and the Cinematization of Schelling (Modified)

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Repurposing the city

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Until all of summer… (Remembering Rilke)

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From Urban Future (2.1)

FeaturedFebruary 6, 2015February 26, 2017

Making Love ‘Infertile’ in the Time of Abundant Fertility

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Briefs

FeaturedJanuary 24, 2015December 12, 2015

Protected: Mga Damong Ligaw (Wild Weeds): Ecology without Nature

FeaturedJanuary 12, 2015February 26, 2017

On Jose Garcia Villa’s Poem No. 7

FeaturedDecember 31, 2014

Angel of History: A New Year’s Message

FeaturedDecember 27, 2014April 28, 2020

The Poverty of Acceleration

October 9, 2019

A Lacanian Reading of Joker – Daniel Tutt

October 6, 2019

February 28, 2018

New Translation of François Laruelle’s “Homo ex Machina” (1980) – Fractal Ontology

A tribute to a theorist of freedom

I was asked to give a tribute to Ka Edel Garcellano who was a personal hero to many, a great teacher, and an important, if not the most important literary critic of our time. (The latter’s description is not mine, but I wish I had said it). Despite the privilege of having sat in […]

Machine Intelligence and Extinction

I believe it’s not only the ‘introduction of bias’ that characterizes one of the major drawbacks of self-evolving machine algorithms but also the fact such machines can only operate in a local field, a point of inhibited activity of infinite evolution itself. Machine intelligence, which here surpasses human intelligence, will just the same instance of […]

Mapping A People to Come

Lessons from stressed islands and island assemblages in archipelagic Southeast Asia and other transversals DOI: 10.21463/shima.13.2.09] Virgilio A. Rivas Polytechnic University of the Philippines <varivas@pup.edu.ph> ABSTRACT: In Desert Islands (2004) Deleuze discussed the concept of second origin and how a people’s second birth is borne out by its transversal becoming as an island assemblage. Today, […]

Latest on Giorgio Agamben

As usual Terence Blake hit it. LOGICAL GRAMMAR VS UNREVISABLE CONCEPTS: Agamben, the Covid-19 virus, and the leap of logic I can’t believe Agamben would really go to this length explaining his opinion after opinion of the same opinion that’s all obviously inside a bubble. He can’t see a clear demarcation between a democray that’s […]

‘Tale of a New Year’

‘Remember, this is the third decade of the Apocalypse’ The taxi window gave away the hard labor of the sidewalk, the combined weight of hundreds of wingless shells it carried from end to end, supported by foam crates loaned from the only polystyrene storehouse in the south end of the city. On […]

On Sci-fi and Corona, Ground Zero or Unthinged Empiricism

I. Science fiction (scifi) constructs imaginaries that paint a utopian promise or warn of dystopias to come. Corona surprises all these imaginaries. With the virus, the future has arrived without its novelist, its fictionist, its poet and seer, without its thinker, its sensorimotor predictor, without empiricism. Perhaps even the climate crisis that came before […]

The Portal

“….At the heart of the city’s biggest square where the funeral swarm was expected to camp out, a large bonfire was lit to the deafening roars of an eager front crowd, how they broke their silence was a ritual invented almost as instantly as they stepped into what they took to be the main entrance, […]

A Lacanian Reading of Joker – Daniel Tutt

Todd Phillip’s Joker is a film about class war in utero. The film sets the stage for a coming political world in which the class war in Gotham has been named and elevated to the undeniable antagonism that situates the injustice of society. The film is also a psychobiography of an antihero’s journey into this… […]