Anomalous Engineering

Ghost Tribes of the Future, stranded in the Eternal Now. Time travelling Malcontents hacking ontology and dropping theory bombs. Offering up uncommon futures and profane visions of the present.

Ian 'Cat' VincentApr 615 min read

Spirits Of Place: Where The Buddleia Grows

Where The Buddleia Grows is a talk I gave on 2 April 2016ce at the Spirits Of Place…

DamienFeb 264 min read

How We Teach Is Also A Lesson

I often think about the phrase “Strange things happen at the one two point,” in relation to the idea of humans meeting other kinds of minds. It’s a proverb that arises out of the culture around the game GO, and it means that you’ve hit a situation, a combination of factors…

Ian 'Cat' VincentJan 225 min read

Welcome To The Churn

(This is the latest issue of my weekly email newsletter, CATERWAULING: you can subscribe to it here. Posted here by request.)

m1k3yJan 67 min read

The Many Posthuman Aspects of PACIFIC RIM

AKA: The candy-coated human/machine rescue mission.

Pacific Rim is many things. Many shiny, spectacular, immersive, self-aware, monster genre mashing, robot smashing, crowd pleasing, city…

DamienNov 25, 20157 min read

A Present Worth Thinking About

+Excitation+

As I’ve been mentioning in the newsletter, there are a number of deeply complex, momentous things going on in the world, right now, and I’ve been meaning to take a little more time to talk about a few of them. There’s the fact…

Wayne ChamblissNov 23, 20153 min read

Go to hell, Bobby Jindal.

The xenophobia and/or naked opportunism of US government officials in the wake of the recent attacks in Paris (I’d say, “and Beirut”, if I thought some of these cretins could find Lebanon using Google Maps) — from CIA Director John Brennan and Senator Ted Cruz to anencephalic…

DamienNov 6, 20151 min read

Video of “Under Its Spell: Magic, Machines, and Metaphors”

This video is from Theorizing the Web 2015… It contains a wide-ranging conversation about Magick, Technology, Labour, Work, Knowledge, Science, Ritual Initiation, Police Surveillance, and much more.

m1k3yOct 25, 20157 min read

A Very Robosexual Human (De)Extinction

Or how technological alienation, cultural stagnation and literally fucking robots will be the end of us all. On this planet. But might just see us reborn on the other side of the galaxy in five thousand years, give or take.