Chiasma #6 – ±Disenchantment? Now Available!

FULL ISSUE (PDF) Editor’s Introduction \ M. Curtis Allen CONTRIBUTIONS Disenchantment Redux: Marx, the Frankfurt School, and the Critique of Ideology \…

Psychoanalysis and Consequences: An Interview with Joan Copjec

Joan Copjec is a leading American psychoanalytic and film theorist. She is currently Professor of Modern Culture & Media at…

The Future of Plasticity: An Interview with Catherine Malabou

Catherine Malabou is a leading figure in contemporary French philosophy. She is currently professor…

Warming the Algorithm and Possibilities for the Future: An Interview with ‘Bifo’ Berardi

Franco “Bifo” Berardi is a renowned Italian political theorist and leading figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, an anti-authoritarian…

The Future of Continental Realism: Heidegger’s Fourfold – Graham Harman

It seems to me that Lee Braver is correct when he argues, in A Thing of This World, that Continental…

Deconstruction and Non-Philosophy – François Laruelle

In order to determine the characteristics of non-philosophy, we frame it in opposition to an image of an established paradigm…

For an Apocalyptic Pedagogy – Levi R. Bryant

Today, perhaps more than ever, the possibility of apocalypse is the most urgent horizon of thought. While the destruction of the planet and the end of humanity as a result of divine intervention have always been thinkable, these scenarios always seemed to belong to the realm of fantasy. What distinguishes our age is that apocalypse, or the utter destruction of the planet now belongs to the realm of real possibility.

Annotation, Navigation, Electronic Editions – Bernard Stiegler

Manuscript parchment or printing paper are static supports. Yet with the advent of digitization, the text is coming to know a new epoch: that of dynamic supports where the reader “naturally” merges with the writing. SGML pertains precisely to this advent of digitization…

Let Us Now Stand Up For Bastards – Eileen A. Joy

In her essay “Pixel Dust: Illusions of Innovation in Scholarly Publishing,” published in the Los Angeles Review of Books last January, Johanna Drucker cautioned against what she calls “the hyped myths of digital publishing.”