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On this week’s episode, Cooper and I welcome Ray Brassier to discuss the trajectory of his philosophical education, his translations of contemporary French theorists, the key insights of Prometheanism, nihilism, and his future work on Fatelessness.

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Ray Brassier - Brassier Unbound

This week Graham Harman returned to discuss his first book, Tool Being, and share some great stories from his career.

Graham's first appearance:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology?si=d162f30106dc42088c8379e1df7ce67b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman

https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/graham-harman

https://doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com/




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Graham Harman - Tool Being

Nieuwe Instituut and the Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil) host philosopher and legal scholar Antoinette Rouvroy for a lecture and discussion with professor of philosophy Yuk Hui. During the meeting, they will discuss the notion of algorithmic realism as a utopia that seems to be taking over more and more domains of human thought and coexistence.

6 May 2024 19:30 - 21:00

Antoinette Rouvroy - Persistence of critique against the tide of algorithmic realism. 6 may 2024

This week Cooper and Taylor tackle the introduction and chapter 1 of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Chapter 1 Genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization.

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https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf

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Gilbert Simondon - On The Mode Of Existence Of Technical Objects

McKenzie Wark on her essay, "My Collectible Ass," published in the 85th issue of e-flux journal, October 2017.&nbsp;In conversation with journal editor Stephen Squibb. 

Read the essay: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156418/my-collectible-ass/
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McKenzie Wark on the fate of art collecting in the digital age

Vivian Ziherl&nbsp;discusses her curatorial platform Frontier Imaginaries&nbsp;on the occasion of&nbsp;TOXIC ASSETS: Frontier Imaginaries Ed.No3&nbsp;at e-flux, Columbia University, and UnionDocs in October 2017. In conversation with journal editor Brian Kuan Wood. 

Watch day one of TOXIC ASSETS on e-flux film & video: http://www.e-flux.com/video/167822/toxic-assets-nbsp-frontier-imaginaries-ed-no3-at-e-flux-and-columbia-university-day-1/
"The Fourfold Articulation" in e-flux journal #81, April 2017: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/81/126968/the-fourfold-articulation/
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Vivian Ziherl on Frontier Imaginaries, Toxic Assets, and The Fourfold Articulation

Elizabeth A. Povinelli discusses four axioms of critical theory in response to her presentation, "Toxic Assets the the Extimacy of Existence," from Frontier Imaginaries Ed.No3 at e-flux. In conversation with journal editor Stephen Squibb. 

Read Elizabeth A. Povinelli in e-flux journal (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/): 

"Geontologies: The Concept and Its Territories" from issue 81, April 2017
"Geontologies: The Figures and the Tactics" from issue 78, December 2016

Elizabeth A. Povinelli on the four axioms of critical theory

e-flux founder, journal editor, and artist Anton Vidokle discusses cosmism with Kaye Cain-Nielsen, editor-in-chief of e-flux journal. You can read more on cosmism in the 88th issue of e-flux journal&nbsp;(February 2018).&nbsp;Featuring texts by Robert Bird, Maria Chehonadskih, Keti Chukhrov, Boris Groys, Trevor Paglen, Alexei Penzin, Marina Simakova, Arseny Zhilyaev, and a Timeline of Russian Cosmism compiled by Anastasia Gacheva, Arseny Zhilyaev, and Anton Vidokle.&nbsp;

Immortality for all: Anton Vidokle on cosmism

Zach Blas in conversation with Laurel Ptak, Art in General's Executive Director &amp; Curator, on the occasion of Blas's exhibition&nbsp;Contra-Internet&nbsp;at Art in General and his lecture-performance&nbsp;Metric Mysticism&nbsp;at e-flux. 

Zach Blas&nbsp;is an artist and writer whose practice confronts technologies of capture, security, and control. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His recent works respond to biometric governmentality and network hegemony. 

Read more about the exhibition, on view through April 21, 2018, at http://www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/650

Read Zach Blas' essay in e-flux journal #74 (June 2016): "Contra-Internet" http://www.e-flux.com/journal/74/59816/contra-internet/

Contra-Internet with Zach Blas and Laurel Ptak

Journalist and author Masha Gessen discusses ways of surviving an autocracy. Rule #1? Believe the autocrat.

For this week’s episode of the e-flux podcast, we are featuring Masha Gessen’s lecture, "How We Survive an Autocracy," originally given on May 24, 2017 as part of an ongoing e-flux lectures series dedicated to discovering the protocols of twenty-first century truth, assuming that these still exist.

Launched in February 2017, most e-flux lectures are live streamed on e-flux.com/live and archived at e-flux.com/video/.

Masha Gessen is a journalist and author, whose most recent book, "The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia," won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Gessen is also the author of the national bestseller "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" (2012). Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Masha Gessen on how to survive an autocracy

Julieta Aranda and Liam Gillick join Lawrence Weiner in his New York studio for a conversation spanning art education and cosmetic dentistry. 

Julieta Aranda is an artist and Editor of e-flux journal.&nbsp; 

Liam Gillick is an artist living in New York. Read Liam Gillick in e-flux journal: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/?q=person_69220

Lawrence Weiner is an artist born in 1942 in New York, NY, where he lives and works today.

Lawrence Weiner, Julieta Aranda, and Liam Gillick in conversation

Following a symposium titled  Technology is History (https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/214106/symposium-technology-is-history/), in association with the exhibition "One Hand Clapping" at the Guggenheim, curator Xiaoyu Weng and Brian Kuan Wood join Yuk Hui to discuss his work. 

The conversation was followed by a talk by Yuk Hui at e-flux titled “What Begins After the End of Enlightenment?” https://www.e-flux.com/program/218683/e-flux-lectures-yuk-hui-what-begins-after-the-end-of-enlightenment/

Text mentioned in the conversation:  "30 Years after Les Immatériaux - Art, Science and Theory" (https://meson.press/books/30-years-after-les-immateriaux/).&nbsp; 

Yuk Hui is a philosopher based in Berlin. He is the author of three monographs: "On the Existence of Digital Objects" (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), "The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics" (Urbanomic, 2016), and "Recursivity and Contingency" (Rowman and Littlefield International, Spring 2019).  Read Yuk Hui in e-flux journal: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/?q=person_82704.

Xiaoyu Weng is The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim. &nbsp; 

Brian Kuan Wood is a founding editor of e-flux journal.

Yuk Hui, Xiaoyu Weng, and Brian Kuan Wood

Recorded at the New York book launch of Jalal Toufic's "What Was I Thinking?", February 28, 2018 at e-flux. Published by e-flux journal and Sternberg Press (2017). Lecture by the author and conversation with Walid Raad.

https://www.e-flux.com/books/158615/what-was-i-thinking/

Jalal Toufic at e-flux, "What Was I Thinking?"

Conversations with some of the most engaged artists and thinkers working today.

e-flux is a publishing platform and archive, artist project, curatorial platform, and enterprise which was founded in 1998. Its news digest, events, exhibitions, schools, journal, books, and the art projects produced and/or disseminated by e-flux describe strains of critical discourse surrounding contemporary art, culture, and theory internationally. Its monthly publication e-flux journal has produced essays commissioned since 2008 about cultural, political, and structural paradigms that inform contemporary artistic production.