Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island (London: Phoenix, 2005), 191.
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2008), 22.
Geoff Manaugh, “We Don’t Have an Algorithm for This,” BLDG BLOG, November 14, 2014 →.
See →.
Vilem Flusser, Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), 62.
Virno defines real anachronism: “The real anachronism conceals the difference between potential and act (the foundation of historicity), thus reducing potential to a previous act, a faculty to past performances, and language to already-spoken words … The real anachronism is based on the formal anachronism, attesting to its opposite as it clashes with and deforms it.” Virno, “Déjà Vu and the End of History,” e-flux journal 62 (February 2015) →.
For eleven years Mardin Human Rights Association lawyers have led an excavation process of missing human bodies of Kurdish people from around the Mardin region.
“Arazinin Altı ve Şeyler—Mardin ve Çevresi Faili Meçhul Araştırması” (Under the Territory—Mardin Region Extrajudicial Killings Research), Pelin Tan interviews lawyer Erdal Kuzu, Director of Mardin Human Rights Association, April 2015 →.
Pelin Tan, “Transversal Materialism: On Artifact, Method, and Exception,” in 2000+: The Urgencies of Architectural Theory, ed. James Graham (New York: GSAPP Books, 2015).
Reza Negarestani, “Undercover Softness: An Introduction to the Architecture and Politics of Decay,” Collapse VI: 386.
Ibid.
Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millenium (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), 29.
“… an attempt to imagine an experimental landscape in which our being-in-world is simplified to the extreme, and in which our sensory links with the multiple and shifting perceptual fields around us are abstracted so radically as to vouchsafe, perhaps, some new glimpse as to the ultimate nature of human reality.” Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future (London: Verso, 2007), 269.
Roger Caillois, The Writing of Stones (Charlottesville: VA: University Press of Virginia, 1985), 105.
“On the other hand, those who affirm that Hayy Ibn Yaqzan was produced without Father and Mother, tell us, that in that Island, in a piece of low Ground, it chanc’d that a certain Mass of Earth was so fermented in some period of Years, that the Hot was so equally mix’d with the Cold, and the Moist with the Dry, that none of ’em prevail’d over the other; and that this Mass was of a very great Bulk, in which, some parts were better and more equally Temper'd than others, and fitter to form the seminal Humours; the middle part especially, which came nearest to the Temper of Man’s Body. This Matter being in a fermentation, there arose some Bubbles by reason of its viscousness, and it chanc’d that in the midst of it there was formed a very little Bubble, which was divided into tow with a thin partition, full of Spirituous and Aerial Substance, and of the most exact Temperature imaginable.” Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail, The History of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, trans. S. Ockley (New York: Frederic A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1930), 45–46.
“‘These tubes contain the chemical substances necessary for the manufacture of a living being,’ continues Miskiewicz, ‘carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and the different trace elements.’ ‘It is in this tranparent bubble,’ added the prophet enthusiastically, ‘that the first human conceived in a completely artificial manner will be born; the first real cyborg.’” Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island, 168.
Callois, The Writing of Stones.
The History of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan.
Negarestani, 391.
Ibid, 399.
Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island, 296.
Roger Caillois and John Shepley, “Mimicry and Legendary Psychaesthenia,” October 31 (Winter 1984): 16–32.
Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), 158.
Negarestani, “Undercover Softness,” 398.