Maximum Jailbreak

Benedict Singleton

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Issue #46
June 2013










Notes
1

George M. Young, The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 49.

2

Bulgakov, The Philosophy of Economy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000), 68.

3

Nikolai Fedorov, What Was Man Created For? The Philosophy of the Common Task (London: Honeyglen Publishing, 1990), 59.

4

On Fedorov’s leanings in this direction, see Young, The Russian Cosmists.

5

Young, The Russian Cosmists, 79.

6

Fedorov, What Was Man Created For?, 56.

7

Ibid., 43.

8

See Benedict Singleton, “Subtle Empires,” Design Ecologies Vol. 1, No. 2 (2011).

9

Gell, Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory (London: Clarendon Press, 1998), 200–01.

10

Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1998).

11

Marcel Detienne & Jean-Pierre Vernant, Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 6.

12

Vernant, Myth and Thought Among the Greeks (New York: Zone Books, 2006), 313.

13

Detienne & Vernant, Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society.

14

See Singleton, “Subtle Empires”; and Singleton, On Craft and Being Crafty: Human Behaviour as the Object of Design (PhD thesis, Northumbria University, forthcoming 2013).

15

Hyde, Trickster Makes This World, 20.

16

Adam Phillips, Houdini’s Box: On the Arts of Escape (London: Faber & Faber, 2001), 29.

17

See Singleton, “The Long Con,” Design Ecologies, Vol. 3, No. 2 (forthcoming 2013).

18

Fedorov, quoted in Young, The Russian Cosmists, 47.

19

Chamayou, Manhunts: A Philosophical History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012), 15.

20

Ibid., 70.

21

Ibid., 63.

22

Brassier, Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), xi.