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The New Normal (Paperback)
Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev, Nick Axel
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R1,196
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The New Normal (2017-2019) was a post-graduate program and
Speculative Urbanism think-tank within Moscow's renowned Strelka
Institute of Media, Architecture, and Design. Directed by
distinguished American social theorist Benjamin H. Bratton, the The
New Normal conducted a collaborative research to investigate the
impact of planetary-scale computation on the future of cities both
in Russia and around the world. The New Normal book, edited by
Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev, and Nick Axel, features
twenty-two interlinked projects that were part of the research.
Published alongside are 17 lavishly illustrated contributions by
international researchers and designers that outline the wider
scope of The New Normal program's output, held together by concise
thematic texts contributed by Benjamin H. Bratton. Contributors
include many of the most influential contemporary designers,
philosophers, architects, and artists, such as Yuk Hui, Liam Young,
Anastassia Smirnova, Lydia Kallipoliti, Lev Manovich, Julieta
Aranda, Trevor Paglen, Metahaven, Keller Easterling, Robert Gerard
Pietrusko, Molly Wright Steenson, Ben Cerveny, Rival Strategy,
Geoff Manaugh, Stephanie Sherman, and Patricia Reed. The fields of
research include Speculative Megastructures, Human AI Interaction
Design, Protocols and Programs, Synthetic Cinema, Alt-Geographies,
Platform Econometrics, and Recursive Simulation. This highly
topical volume, the only comprehensive survey of research and work
produced by The New Normal program, will appeal to all readers
interested in the future of cities and urban design.
Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired
by the symposium on Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia: Complicity
with Anonymous Materials, which took place on 11 March 2011 at The
New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists,
cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the
emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The
text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience,
provoking vital debate around the relationship between philosophy,
geopolitics, geophysics, and art. At once a work of speculative
theology, a political samizdat, and a philosophic grimoire,
Cyclonopedia is a Deleuzo-Lovecraftian middle-eastern Odyssey
populated by archeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force
officers, heresiarchs, and the corpses of ancient gods. Playing out
the book's own theory of creativity - "a confusion in which no
straight line can be traced or drawn between creator and created -
original inauthenticity" (191) - this multidimensional collection
both faithfully interprets the text and realizes it as a loving,
perforated host of fresh heresies. The volume includes an incisive
contribution from the author explicating a key figure of the novel:
the cyclone. CONTENTS: Robin Mackay, "A Brief History of Geotrauma"
- McKenzie Wark, "An Inhuman Fiction of Forces" - Benjamin H.
Bratton, "Root the Earth: On Peak Oil Apophenia" - Alisa Andrasek,
"Dustism" - Zach Blas, "Queerness, Openness" - Melanie Doherty,
"Non-Oedipal Networks and the Inorganic Unconscious" - Anthony
Sciscione, "Symptomatic Horror: Lovecraft's 'The Colour Out of
Space'" - Kate Marshall, "Cyclonopedia as Novel (a meditation on
complicity as inauthenticity)" - Alexander R. Galloway, "What is a
Hermeneutic Light?" - Eugene Thacker, "Black Infinity; or, Oil
Discovers Humans" - Nicola Masciandaro, "Gourmandized in the
Abattoir of Openness" - Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas
Mellamphy, "Phileas Fogg, or the Cyclonic Passepartout: On the
Alchemical Elements of War" - Ben Woodard, "The Untimely (and
Unshapely) Decomposition of Onto-Epistemological Solidity:
Negarestani's Cyclonopedia as Metaphysics" - Ed Keller, ." . .Or,
Speaking with the Alien, a Refrain. . ." - Lionel Maunz, "Receipt
of Malice" - Oyku Tekten, "Symposium Photographs" - Reza
Negarestani, "Notes on the Figure of the Cyclone" punctumbooks.com
With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose
object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution. Speed and Politics
(first published in France in 1977) is the matrix of Virilio's
entire work. Building on the works of Morand, Marinetti, and
McLuhan, Virilio presents a vision more radically political than
that of any of his French contemporaries: speed as the engine of
destruction. Speed and Politics presents a topological account of
the entire history of humanity, honing in on the technological
advances made possible through the militarization of society.
Paralleling Heidegger's account of technology, Virilio's vision
sees speed-not class or wealth-as the primary force shaping
civilization. In this "technical vitalism," multiple
projectiles-inert fortresses and bunkers, the "metabolic bodies" of
soldiers, transport vessels, and now information and computer
technology-are launched in a permanent assault on the world and on
human nature. Written at a lightning-fast pace, Virilio's landmark
book is a split-second, overwhelming look at how humanity's
motivity has shaped the way we function today, and what might come
of it.
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale
computation proposing that The Stack-an accidental megastructure-is
both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical
architecture. What has planetary-scale computation done to our
geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different
scales-from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud
infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing
systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and
eye to users identified by self-quantification and the arrival of
legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these
distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new
territories in their own image? In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton
proposes that these different genres of computation-smart grids,
cloud platforms, mobile apps, smart cities, the Internet of Things,
automation-can be seen not as so many species evolving on their
own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure
called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus and a new
governing architecture. We are inside The Stack and it is inside of
us. In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing
on political philosophy, architectural theory, and software
studies, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud,
City, Address, Interface, User. Each is mapped on its own terms and
understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard
and soft systems intermingling-not only computational forms but
also social, human, and physical forces. This model, informed by
the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol "stacks," in
which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical
order, offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure
and a platform for its ongoing reinvention. The Stack is an
interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works
with and for planetary-scale computation. Interweaving the
continental, urban, and perceptual scales, it shows how we can
better build, dwell within, communicate with, and govern our
worlds. thestack.org
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