In Intelligence and Spirit, Reza Negarestani studies the conflict between twofold models of time, that of the “phenomenological” and “cosmological” See: Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative, Volume 1 (trans. Kathleen McLaughlin & David Pellauer). University of Chicago Press, 1984 — meaning that time is at once an experience of being-in-the-world…

To create history is to have an awareness of the capacity for action. Without action, history, which guides us towards the possibilities of the future, becomes obsolete. The equivalence is that without a teleological compass, action becomes meaningless and unpredictable. The horizon of possibilities that once adorned our present historical…

Human existence is finite. We leave traces of ourselves through writing, artefacts and objects, in graffiti tags and Instagram stories, sculptures and tools, on cave walls, Reddit threads and hard drives, and through mythologies and rhythms. These are traces which transcend memory we genetically acquire, a memory that will not…

We find ourselves today in a disorienting and overwhelming present state. Since the turn of the millennium, the digital milieu has become a surrogate for social relations, cultural transmission, and storage for the immense accrual of human knowledge. Connected through protocols, the dense networks of servers, personal computers, mobile phones…

The following article was published in the Spring issue of Lodown Magazine. Marea (2018) is a programmed film by Alex Murray and GVN908 that renders in realtime from live security camera streams. In the first stage of this ongoing project, Marea poeticises the contemporary world in which images are received…