On Anthropolysis

Sascha Pohflepp, a PhD. Student I advise at the University of California, San Diego, is working toward a degree emphasis in the joint program in Anthroogeny, and this essay expands on our discussions.

Dipesh Charkrabarty has identified a similar conjunction. See his “The Climate of History: Four Theses” Critical Inquiry Vol. 35, No. 2 (Winter 2009), pp. 197-222.

Alexander Dugin, the ponderous Russian spokes-theorist for Eurasian Traditionalism, offered the following sentiment: "We need to return to the Being, to the Logos, to the foundamental-ontology (of Heidegger), to the Sacred, to the New Middle Ages—and thus to the Empire, religion, and the institutions of traditional society (hierarchy, cult, domination of spirit over matter and so on). All content of Modernity—is Satanism and degeneration. Nothing is worth, everything is to be cleansed off. The Modernity is absolutely wrong—science, values, philosophy, art, society, modes, patterns, "truths," understanding of Being, time and space. All is dead with Modernity. So it should end. We are going to end it.” So there you have it. See his blog post "Traps and dead ends of the new nationalism," ➝.

See Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press: 2015), 96–106.

See Nikolai Federov, “The Common Task” in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian (Urbanomic: 2014), 83–90.

See the story of Clair Cameron Patterson and his seminal research on lead isotopes, Clair Patterson (1956), "Age of meteorites and the Earth", Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 10 (4): 230–237,

See John Zerzan, “Number: Its Origin and Evolution”, ➝.

See also Reza Negarastani, “The Labor of the Inhuman, Part 1: Human,” e-flux journal #52 (February 2014), ➝.