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Steven Shaviro
Steven Shaviro
In more than 60 texts, first published on-site at 56th Venice Biennale, artists and writers trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life.
e-flux Books
Posted: December 1, 2017
Category
Technology, Internet, Contemporary Art, Utopia, Surveillance & Privacy, Nature & Ecology, Migration & Immigration, Labor & Work, Globalization
Subjects
Biennials, Networks, Post-Internet, Contemporaneity, Anthropocene, Apocalypse , Art Criticism, Transhumanism, Cosmism, Social Media, Science Fiction, Psychogeography, Postcolonialism, Ontology , Nihilism , Knowledge Production, Internet Art, Institutional Critique, Immaterial Labor, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Artistic Research
Arsenic Dreams
Steven Shaviro
In 2010, a group of scientists working for NASA announced a startling discovery. They claimed to have found a strain of microbes, hidden in the depths of Mono Lake in California, that were able to consume arsenic as a replacement for phosphorus. This was a surprise. Phosphorus is one of the basic, necessary building blocks of life alongside carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur. Arsenic, on the other hand, is generally toxic: not just to human beings—for whom it has a long history...
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Science, Animals, Science Fiction
Escape Velocities: Symposium at e-flux
Benjamin H. Bratton, Keller Easterling, Metahaven, Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden, Reza Negarestani, Steven Shaviro, and McKenzie Wark
e-flux Live
Posted: November 4, 2013
Category
Aesthetics
Subjects
Accelerationism
Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption
Steven Shaviro
Tout se résume dans l’Esthétique et l’Économie politique . Everything comes down to Aesthetics and Political Economy. Mallarmé’s aphorism is my starting point for considering accelerationist aesthetics. 1 I think that aesthetics exists in a special relationship to political economy, precisely because aesthetics is the one thing that cannot be reduced to political economy. Politics, ethics, epistemology, and even ontology are all subject to “determination in the last instance” by the forces...
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2013
Category
Capitalism
Subjects
Accelerationism, Beauty, Sublime, Affect
Cosmogenic Acceleration: Futurity and Ethics
Patricia MacCormack
Learn the aesthetic error of submitting everything to a law: leveling the local event produces boredom and ugliness, a world without landscapes, books without pages, deserts. Take everything away and you will not see. To see space demands time, do not kill time. Avoid the symmetrical error of being satisfied with fragments.
—Michel Serres 1
In Post-Cinematic Affect , Steven Shaviro defines accelerationist aesthetics in two ways. First, he points to the “‘disruption,’ or the...
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2013
Category
Posthumanism, Aesthetics
Subjects
Futures, Accelerationism, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Affect
e-flux Project
Category
Internet, Interviews & Conversations, Labor & Work
Subjects
Biennials, Community, Digital Humanities, Apocalypse , Corruption, Planet Earth , Artificial intelligence, Artistic Research , The Cosmos, Cosmism, Networks, Biopolitics, The Commons