Machinic phylumis a term coined by French post-structuralist philosophers Deleuze and Guattari to describe the universe’s reservoir of self-organising principles. They reason that whenever a crystal grows, a foetus begins…

In the midst of incessant technological and social upheavals, ecological disasters, and capital excess a band of modern primitives are downloading designer wetware (another term for drugs) and cataleptically conspiring…

Welcome to the postmodern present where reality is remixed ‘live’ to CNN theme-muzak. In a world where the real is no longer hip enough, there can be no talk of…

Hyperstition describes the effects and mechanisms of apocalyptic ‘phase out’ or ‘meltdown’ culture. As a neologism it combines the words ‘hyper’ and ‘superstition’ to describe, in the words of the…

Smoking, taking drugs, Sado-masochistic activities, and wild thumping music are all means of building a Body Without Organs (BoW).  Quite simply, these activities (and others like them) signify attempts to…

When the infamous radio production of War of the Worlds convinced thousands of credulous New Yorkers that the Martians had landed, it became obvious that the world was squarely in…

At the dawn of the 21st century, we seem to be living in on a Euro-American planet. The phenomenal expansion of western civilisation from its spiritual heartland in western Europe…

“We have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing space and time as far as our planet is concerned,” wrote Marshall McCluhan…

During the last one-millionth part of Earth’s history, the biosphere has undergone a dramatic change. Since the evolution of agriculture 10,000 years ago, eco-systems have progressively made way…

When NASA’s first images of the “big blue marble,” planet Earth, hit television in 1966, the philosopher Martin Heidegger was overcome by a wave of existential nausea. “The uprooting of…