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ArtReviewUndinge revolves around our loss of connection to things in favour of digital information. What do objects have that new technologies don’t?

Byung-Chul Han Undinge proposes that the age of objects is over. The terrane order, the order of the Earth, consists of objects that take on a permanent form and provide a stable environment for human... See more

Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art”

Afvalverwerking als stervensbegeleiding De vraag is dus hoe we omgaan met de dood en met de doden. En vooral: met de levende doden. Inmiddels moge duidelijk zijn dat de onmogelijkheid om écht te sterven, het blijven hangen in een stadium van ondood-zijn, kenmerkend is voor onze cultuur en dat dit zichtbaar wordt in afval dat zich ophoopt. Er is te

Lisa Doeland • Apocalypsofie (Dutch Edition)

From the author of Oval, a collection of “fan nonfiction” that proposes new possibilities and genealogies for weird fiction in the age of extinction.

This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris... See more

Elvia Wilk • Death by Landscape

An ecological understanding allows us to identify “things”—rain, cloud, river—at the same time that it reminds us that these identities are fluid. Even mountains erode, and the ground

Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Wielką zaletą myśli Mortona jest ukazanie iluzoryczności tych green-washingowych gestów. Zasadzają się one na wierze w to, że przyroda istnieje w sposób zupełnie odrębny od ludzi. Jak pokazuje brytyjski filozof, w dzisiejszym świecie – czy tego chcemy, czy nie – staliśmy się częścią bytu, który „w skali planetarnej urósł w geofizyczną siłę

Co robimy w ciemności

In her 2019 dissertation titled Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art, the scholar Patricia de Vries defined algorithmic anxiety as a condition in which "the possible self is perceived to be cir-cumscribed, bounded, and governed by algorithmic regimes." Her words feel breathtakingly accurate. The possibilities that we perceive for ourselves--our

“While traditional materialism is rooted in the present, Speculative Materialism – from the Latin ‘speculat’ meaning “observed from a vantage point” – looks to the horizon. Rather than designing materials to last for time immemorial, what about redesigning materials to degrade and be regenerated cyclically over time? […]

Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #98

In that way, some consumers have yielded to a type of techno-fatalism. People know that algorithms exist and often dictate how culture is disseminated to them—and that there’s not much they can do about it, save for abandoning the platforms altogether and embracing a retro-Luddism about their consumption choices.

The Technology That Actually Runs Our World — The Atlantic