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# 112
Slime on a Wire
Ben Woodard
To see technology only as a form of anthropogenic violence would again ignore the generative synthesis of mechanistic analysis and materialist supposition. The denial of progress, even if limited to the technological output of human beings, requires treating technological objects both mechanically and materially, as well as demonstrating particular forces and matters. Or as philosopher Gilbert Simondon approached it, technology can be defined as a designed tool on the one hand and as having a life of its own on the other.
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 9, 2020
Category
Nature & Ecology, Philosophy, Technology
Subjects
Water & The Sea, Biology, Evolution, Animals
# 65
Less World to be Ourselves: A Note on Postapocalyptic Simplification
Ben Woodard
While ecological catastrophe weighs as heavy as it ever has on the popular imaginary, it is notable that the majority of postapocalyptic tales do not feature disasters of the ecological variety. 1 In the following I argue that this focus stems from two interconnected problems. The first is that postapocalyptic narratives conflate the concept of a human-centered world and a biologically sustaining Earth. The second problem is a general lack of a concept of futurity, of any sense of a future…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Subjects
Apocalypse , Climate change, Fiction