anticon was a time, a team, a blip on a screen, a group, a label, a stable of men.anticon was a movement, a moment, an underground scene, a business, a base, a stance against the status quo.anticon was a voice, a mic, a 4-track backing track, a collective, a corrective, a fix for the pre-millennium… Continue reading Joseph Rathgeber: anticon and Beyond
We’ve all heard and had so many conversations about and with large language models lately. They all seem to be running over the same ground, too. It’s exhausting. Leif Weatherby is the founding director of New York University’s Digital Theory Lab and Director of Digital Humanities. His research focuses on literary theory, digital culture, and… Continue reading Leif Weatherby: What We Talk About When We Talk About A.I.
McKenzie Wark opens her book Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (Verso, 2019) with an epigraph from Kathy Acker: “Post-capitalists’ general strategy right now is to render language (all that which signifies) abstract therefore easily manipulable.”1 Acker goes on, in her book, Literal Madness, In the case of language and of economy the signified… Continue reading Capitalist Surrealism
To declare something as posthuman is to draw a line between what is human and something that is not. In Nietzsche’s Posthumanism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), Edgar Landgraf proposes Nietzsche’s “overhuman” (Übermensch) as well as the cyborg as shorthands for the posthuman. He quotes Bernard Stiegler, who, summarizing French paleontologist André Leroi-Gourhan’s prehistorical research,… Continue reading Reaching Nietzsche
As it always does, my to-read stack has already doubled just from compiling and editing this year’s Summer Reading List. Get ready to add to yours, because there’s plenty below that you’re going to have to check out. There are so many books to read and so many ways to read them, you have no excuse… Continue reading Summer Reading List, 2017
