Gustav Metzger, Writings 1953–2016 (JRP Editions, 2019), 66.
Metzger, Writings, 66, 76, 107.
Günther Anders, “Theses for the Atomic Age,” The Massachusetts Review 3, No. 2 (Spring, 1962): 496.
Günther Anders, “Reflections on the H Bomb,” Dissent 3, no. 2 (Spring, 1956): 146.
Anders, “Theses for the Atomic Age,” 493.
Cited in Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mark of the Sacred, trans. M. B. DeBevoise (Stanford University Press, 2013), 203.
Dupuy, Mark of the Sacred, 204.
For Dupuy’s reference to enlightened catastrophism as a “ruse,” see, for example, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Pour un catastrophisme écairé: Quand l’impossible est certain (Seuil, 2004), 100.
On the fear of the breakdown that has already occurred, see D. W. Winnicott, “Fear of Breakdown,” International Review of Psychoanalysis, no. 1 (1974): 103–7.
Walter Benjamin, “Paralipomena to On the Concept of History,” in Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938–1940, ed. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings (Belknap Press, 2003), 402.
Franz Kafka, “Give it Up,” in Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories (Schocken Books, 1971), 456.
See →. XR states that they are “a politically non-partisan international movement that uses non-violent direct action to persuade governments to act justly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency.” They have three demands in the UK: tell the truth; act now; go beyond politics.
Walter Benjamin, “Letter to Gershom Scholem on Franz Kafka,” in Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935–1938 (Belknap Press, 2002), 327.
See Jacques-Alain Miller, “Psychoanalysis, the City and Communities,” Psychoanalytic Notebooks, no. 24 (March 2012): 15.
Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959–1960 (Routledge, 2008), 224–26.
Walter Benjamin, “The Lisbon Earthquake,” in Radio Benjamin, ed. Lecia Rosenthal (Verso, 2014), 160.
Immanuel Kant, Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 363.
Kant, Natural Science, 363.
The classic study on the history of this idea is Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (Harvard University Press, 2001).
Benjamin Stillingfleet, The Saturday Magazine 10, No. 290 (January 7, 1837) →.
George Lakoff and Mark Turner, More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (University of Chicago Press, 1989), 167.
Georges Cuvier, “Species of Elephants” (“Espèces des éléphans,” 1796) in Martin J. S. Rudwick, Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes (University of Chicago Press, 1997), 24.
Paul Valéry, “The Crisis of the Mind,” in Paul Valéry: An Anthology (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), 94.
Marquis de Sade, Juliette, trans. Austryn Wainhouse (Arrow Books, 1991). Page numbers for all quotes from this source given within text.
Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (Verso: 1997), 94–95.
Metzger, Writings, 615.
See Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll, and Daniel Steuer, War and Algorithm (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).
Khari Johnson, “The US Military, Algorithmic Warfare, and Big Tech,” Venture Beat, November 8, 2019 →.
Gilles Deleuze, Coldness and Cruelty (Zone Books, 2013), 104–5.
See →.
Immanuel Kant, Political Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1991), 186.
Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge, Kreuznach, September 1843 →.
Jem Bendell, “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy,” 2018 →.
Louis Althusser, “Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon,” Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (Aakar Books, 2006), 8.
Thanks to Hans Ulrich Obrist for discussions on a number of the above topics, and to Maria Balaska, Peter Buse, and Dany Nobus for feedback on an earlier draft. Additional thanks to Elvia Wilk for editorial comments.