This term is Spivak’s, though we mean it differently.
The term “comparative planetology” comes from Kim Stanley Robinson.
The “xeno-” prefix was introduced into this discourse by Reza Negarastani.
See Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect (London: Zero Books, 2010), 137–39.
Fredric Jameson, quoted in Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect, 138.
Nick Land, “Machinic Desire,” Textual Practice, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1993): 479.
This corresponds to a shift in focus from immediate resistance to capitalism to the ultimate completion of its historical mission (of self-extinguishment).
See Reza Negarastani, “Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy,” in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. Ed. Levi Bryant, Nick Scrnicek, Graham Harman. (Melbourne: re:press, 2011).
See →.
I’ve discussed this at length in a series of interviews with Metahaven.
See, for example, the novel Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, and Eden Medina’s, Cybernetic Revolutionaires, Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. MIT Press. 2011.
