Down in the acc/cellar, rescanning lost CCRU zine from 1996. Never published, tho some texts later included in Abstract Culture. Would be (checks calendar) at least 20 years before
#afrofuturism
started appearing as a term in mainstream media.
--> Limited run reprint incoming.
CCRU T-shirts now restocked in all sizes! And CCRU Writings e-book now available in our web shop too! Paper reprint coming sooooon… Keep it Lemurian yeah?
‘Something is coming together here which only anastrophe can hope to grasp…only the future will make sense of what Cute will have been doing to us.’
※\(^o^)/※ Cute Accelerationism. ※\(^o^)/※
by Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic
DOCUMENT: China and AI: Human Bots, Black Tech, the Dark Forest, and the State. Some extracts from the forthcoming collection ‘Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the Future and History of Artificial Intelligence’.
Chronosis is finally on its way, and it’s truly stunning. Get a sneak preview here, and pre-order now to get your hands on the special alternate cover edition signed by the authors.
@NegarestaniReza
@Keith_Tilford
Let’s take a moment today to give a (belated) official welcome to Amy Ireland
@qdnoktsqfr
, newly appointed editor
#2
at
@urbanomicdotcom
. She’s already working on some exciting future publications, and is currently toiling in the engine room fixing up our
web store….
DOCUMENT: COLD BUTTER. ‘I awake to the sound of someone opening my front door from the inside.’ Everyday story of a homebody, by
@maggiecsiebert
SCHIZO SEASON 8
DOCUMENT: SISU Manifesto+User Guide. The secretive group from Korea working on operating a phase inversion against digital culture finally reveal their audiocentric approach to the War of the Currents
SCHIZO SEASON 1
Chemistry, Kabbalah, thermodynamics, subscendental queerocity, goth catholicism, time sorcery, demented gods and midday demons, levitating saints, worms. Lil Peep meets Christina the Astonishing on the Grande Raccordo Anulare. Italian Southern CyberGothic with trap snares.
'I think art institutions are controlled by posh people who don’t have any idea about anything. What do they even mean by “artistic vision”? I don't have an artistic vision. It's like they are asking you to glorify the word of God.'
Now available worldwide in all cute bookstores. Welcome to the kawaiizome: nothing uncute makes it out of the near future, and the cute will very soon no longer be even remotely human.
Now available worldwide in all cute bookstores.
Maya B. Kronic and Amy Ireland discuss accelerationism, the relationship between cute/acc and xenofeminism, rigging, flatmaxxing, popular cyborgism, becoming-anime, social marginalisation, why social media is good actually, and ofc egg. 📝
@claalpelotas
DOCUMENT: ON THE CONCEPT OF MOE. The true detachment from humanity, the final severance—girl that’s past any human gender because I’m anime now.
@NatVoltaic
reporting from the frontline of xenogender meltdown (stole from
@yonqzine
)
SCHIZO SEASON 4
Urbanomic and Sequence Press are offering limited advance copies of Jean Cavaillès’s posthumous masterpiece ‘On Logic and the Theory of Science’, one of the most influential works of French epistemology.
From the CCRU archive, the ‘Swarmachines’ podcast presents a long-lost piece of sonic fiction last heard in 1996, featuring the voices of Sadie Plant, Nick Land, Mark Fisher, and Angus Carlyle, with introduction from Urbanomic director Robin Mackay.
Out now! How do we envisage the construction site(s) of possible worlds? What kind of diagrams, tools, and languages can bring them into being? A collection bringing together different perspectives from the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, and art.
PODCAST: Maniac Lullabies.
Robin Mackay is joined by Amy Ireland
@qdnoktsqfr
to talk to Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh about his book ‘Omnicide’, lullabies, prisons, nerds, mysticism, assassins, sorcery and hyperstition, practical magic, and more….
Coming soon .... Thomas Moynihan’s splendid, startling, lavishly illustrated volume on the history of Existential Risk, ‘X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction’. Review copies available.
A team at
@CentrePompidou
have recreated Jean-François Lyotard and Thierry Chaput’s groundbreaking 1985 show ‘Les Immatériaux’, complete w/ audio zones + catalogue and other texts translated by Urbanomic’s Robin Mackay. Visit the Virtual Exhibition now:
We recorded a truly epic podcast with the wonderful Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh and
@qdnoktsqfr
last week - on Omnicide, assassins, magic, Nietzsche, lullabies, and countless other things... coming soon!
🔈🔉🔊 Mark Fell — Structure and Synthesis 🔈🔉🔊
A provocative collection of texts, diagrams, scores, instruction works, reflections and rants from the FM sensei himself.
Pre-order now available only in the Urbanomic web shop!
Mark Fell’s Structure and Synthesis is officially published today and available in all the best bookstores.
We created a special playlist of tracks mentioned and discussed in the book. Listen here:
Reza Negarestani and Keith Tilford bring you Chronosis, a unique philosophical graphic novel—now available as a digital edition from Comixology! (It’s about Time).
Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic present Cute Accelerationism in bobbly bouncy hypermedia format in London, this Thursday at Reference.Point. 🐰 Be there or be profoundly uncute 🐰
Easter, 1929: Jean Cavaillès, along with fellow students Levinas and Carnap, is present at Davos for the great debate between Cassirer and Heidegger. Cavaillès’s report on the encounter is translated here for the first time.
What we did during Lockdown # 1 (apart from PlaguePodcasting). Presenting the Kabin, Urbanomic’s new residency space, hand-built during Summer 2020 at End of the World Garden, Cornwall, UK.
Alberto Rangel’s 1908 collection of stories of the Amazon "Verdant Inferno" + Jean-Christophe Goddard’s intense, delirious, polyglot Brazilianizing of Spinoza "A Scabby Black Brazilian". Pre-order now!
Chronosis is out today! Check out the launch podcast for inside info on cat monks, cosmic body horror, the Harold Lloyd theory of time-reversal, psychopaths, AGI monkeys, and The Mortiloquist.
It's not over til it's over! Your favourite car crash of a podcast returns one last time for a sunny UKG Sunday afternoon with a special solar-powered remote broadcast from End of the World Garden. Sunday 19 July 1200 BST (1100 GMT)
Our first Japanese translation, from the author of Otaku and General Will 2.0!
Advance copies are available now on the webshop:
More information here: .
From Collapse I, Urbanomic’s first ever publication back in *2007* - Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier pose some…tough questions 😂…to Nick Bostrom about the then newly-founded Future of Humanity Institute...
To celebrate the launch of Audint—Unsound:Undead, DJK Huysmans gives us a sampler of Unsound Methods in this audio trailer featuring multiple phenomena examined in the book -- along with some other beloved spectres.
🌑 A Philosophy of Doom 🌑 Catch the ever entrancing Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh talking about the forthcoming second volume of Omnicide: Mania, Doom and the Future-in-Deception, on
@acidhorizonpod
DOCUMENT: Founded on Nothing. An interview with Quentin Meillassoux about the nature of his speculative materialism, its relation to other figures in the history of philosophy, and its practical and ethical consequences.