Between Futurology and Extinction: A Transautographic Experiment in Two Turns
Alternative title Between Futurology and Extinction
Article
Alternative title Between Futurology and Extinction
Citation
Baker P & Cerrato M (2023) Between Futurology and Extinction: A Transautographic Experiment in Two Turns [Between Futurology and Extinction]. Culture Machine, 22. https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Futurology-Cerrato-Baker.pdf
Abstract
This article is a writing experiment that engages critically with
the traditional modes of academic praxis and explores an
alternative, interactive way of writing as the necessary
complement to a mode of thinking concerned with the
possibility of freedom in the face of the progressively
exhaustive computational rendition and datafication of
existence. By using different yet not distinct voices (in ‘two
turns’), this piece aims to foreground the trans-autographic
connection at stake in autography and the role that friendship
can play in opening a space of freedom suspended between the
threat of extinction and the algorithmic government of
planetary life. The essay hinges on Heidegger’s notion of
'futurology' as technical calculative appropriation of the future
reduced to an extended present, and it proposes the threefold
articulation of global computation, futurology, and climate
emergency as a way to draw the coordinates of the elusive
'predicament' of our time and of a constellation of questions
that go under the rubric of the 'Anthropocene'.
Journal
Culture Machine: Volume 22
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 01/12/2023 |
Publication date online | 01/12/2023 |
Date accepted by journal | 01/12/2023 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35654 |
Publisher URL | https://culturemachine.net/…errato-Baker.pdf |
ISSN | 1465-4121 |
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