URBANOMIC 2014–2015

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Since the publication of the rst volume of our acclaimed Collapse series, a rm commitment to cross-disciplinary thinking outside the academy has propelled Urbanomic beyond a traditional theory/philosophy readership, attracting a dedicated following.* We continue to publish Contact: works that assemble new audiences and forge Louise McDermott +44 (0)203 691 2791 new alliances in thought. [email protected] Urbanomic Media Ltd As well as Collapse, our catalogue includes the The Old Lemonade Factory Windsor Quarry groundbreaking series of publications produced Falmouth collaboratively since 2010 with Sequence Press TR11 3EX UK in New York; MONO, a new series of works by www.urbanomic.com emerging contemporary thinkers; and the new Distributor (UK, EU): Central Books, London. REDACTIONS series documenting and extending www.centralbooks.com the ‘research-in-progress’ ethos of Urbanomic’s + 44 (0)845 458 9911 US: Contact Katherine Pickard (Sequence Press) events programme. [email protected] 212.995.1774

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Exploring the political heresy of accelerationism, Object-Oriented Philosophy—beyond the hype: from Marx to the contemporary scene. Realist revolution or metaphysical regression? #Accelerate Object-Oriented The Accelerationist Reader Philosophy Ed. ROBIN MACKAY & ARMEN AVANESSIAN The Noumenon’s New Clothes PETER WOLFENDALE with a postscript by

Available Now October 2014 See page 9 for details See page 15 for details

An analysis of ‘Neoliberal Counter-Reformation’ Time to exit the paradigm of contemporary art to stand alongside Deleuze’s ‘Control Society’ and and its interminable logic of escape, in search of Foucault’s ‘Liberal Governmentality’. a new type of art theory and practice? To Live and Think On the Like Pigs Necessity of The Incitement of Envy and Art’s Exit from Boredom in Market Democracies GILLES CHÂTELET Contemporary Art with a foreword by ALAIN BADIOU SUHAIL MALIK November 2014 April 2015 See page 11 for details See page 17 for details

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Exploring the political heresy of accelerationism, from Marx to the contemporary scene.

April 2014 #Accelerate Paperback 115 x 175mm, 544pp. £14.99 UK / $24.99 US The Accelerationist Reader ISBN 978-0-9575295-5-7 Ed. ROBIN MACKAY & ARMEN AVANESSIAN E-book 978-0-9575295-2-6 • First volume to address this important new Published in association with current in contemporary political philosophy and Merve, Berlin the energetic debate and controversy around it • Includes all the key thinkers who galvanized the An engaging, eccentric #accelerate movement anthology…it’s“ refresh- • Traces a genealogy of accelerationism through ing to encounter a ‘left’ post-68 French Theory and 90s Cyberculture, project for the future including texts never published before • Set to gain further visibility with several mon- that wants to reclaim the ographs and collections on accelerationism to be idea of technology, published in 2014–15 industry and Since the 2013 appearance of the ‘Manifesto for planet-scale thinking. Accelerationist Politics’, the term ‘accelerationism’ ArtReview ” has been adopted to name a set of new attempts to conceptualise non-capitalist futures outside of Including texts by: traditional marxist critiques and regressive or restorative solutions—a new politics that is invested Samuel Butler in grasping complexity, abstraction and futurity for Nicolai Federov its own ends, not ceding them to the enemy. Thorstein Veblen #Accelerate constructs a genealogy of acceler- Shulamith Firestone ationism, calling attention to early anticipations of Deleuze and Guattari accelerationism, and presenting new essays that Jean-François Lyotard document the emergence of new accelerationisms JG Ballard steeled against the onslaughts of ‘capitalist realism’, Nick Land and retooled for the twenty-žrst century. Sadie Plant Contributing to the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed term, #Accelerate opens a Williams and Srnicek historical conversation about futurality, technology, Antonio Negri politics, enjoyment and Kapital. This is a legacy shot Tiziana Terranova through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of ‘reasonable’ contemporary Ray Brassier political alternatives. 8 9 ×

An analysis of ‘Neoliberal Counter-Reformation’ to stand alongside Deleuze’s ‘Control Society’ and Foucault’s ‘Liberal Governmentality’.

November 2014 To Live and Think Paperback 115 x 175mm, 201pp. £14.99 UK / $24.99 US Like Pigs ISBN 978-0-9832169-6-4 The Incitement of Envy and E-book 978-0-9832169-8-8 Boredom in Market Democracies Translation Rights: Éditions Exils GILLES CHÂTELET Châtelet saw clearly with a foreword by ALAIN BADIOU the“ dangers of a taste for ideas such as chaos and • Significant, previously untranslated work emergence, and antic- • Badiou’s foreword positions the largely un- known Châtelet as a key figure in French thought ipates the buzz around • A scathing, witty polemic and an original and big data, crowdsourcing, penetrating analysis of ‘market democracy’ thought-leaders, • An important contribution to debates on market democracy and neoliberalism and capitalist subjectivation even bespoke Brooklyn yogurt-makers. He is An uproarious portrait of the evils of the market and a technical manual for its innermost ideologi- a Juvenal or Jonathan cal workings, this is the story of how the perverted Swift for this disinte- legacy of liberalism sought to knead Marx’s ‘free grating spectacle that peasant’ into a statistical ‘average man’—pliant raw is the over-developed material for the sausage-machine of postmodernity. world. McKenzie” Wark, Combining the incandescent wrath of the betrayed comrade with the acute discrimination of the mathe- author of The Beach matician-physicist, Châtelet scrutinizes the pseudo- Beneath the Street scientižc alibis employed to naturalize ‘market democracy’ and the ‘triple alliance’ between politics, GILLES CHÂTELET [1944–1999] economics, and cybernetics. was a mathematician and philos- opher and leading member of the Crucial reading for any future politics that wants to Front homosexuel d’action révo- replace individualism with individuation and libertari- lutionnaire (FHAR), professor at anism with liberation, this new translation constitutes University of Paris VIII and pro- a major contribution to contemporary debate on neo- gramme director at the Collège liberalism, economics and capitalist subjectivation. Internationale de philosophie. 10 11 12 13 MONO 002 Object-Oriented Philosophy—beyond the hype: Realist revolution or metaphysical regression?

Object-Oriented October 2014 Paperback 115 x 175mm, 420pp. Philosophy £14.99 UK / $24.99 US ISBN 978-0-9575295-9-5 The Noumenon’s New Clothes Translation Rights: Urbanomic PETER WOLFENDALE with a postscript by RAY BRASSIER What Peter Wolfendale • First full-length critical work to examine the does“ in his detailed and philosophical claims of OOO/OOP forceful analysis is what • A concerted polemic backed by meticulous ref- Kant did to Swedenborg: erence to both analytic and Continental traditions • Impressive first major work by a writer recog- to dispel the mist of nised as a significant new philosophical voice vibrant (spiritualized) • Postscript from Ray Brassier, one of the original materiality. What Voltaire Speculative Realists, conducts an ‘autopsy’ on said about god should the movement and its legacy be repeated about this book: if it didn’t exist, we How does the patience and rigour of philosophi- cal explanation fare when confronted with an irre- would have to invent it. pressible desire to commune with the object and to Slavoj Žižek ” escape the subjective perplexities of reference, meaning and sense? The man Moving beyond the hype and the in²ated claims “ made for ‘Object-Oriented’ thought, Peter Wolfen- is relentless. dale considers its emergence in the light of the inter- ” twined legacies of twentieth-century analytic and Continental traditions. Both a remarkably clear explication of the tenets of OOP and an acute critique of the movement’s PETER WOLFENDALE is an ramižcations for philosophy today, Object-Oriented independent philosopher from Philosophy is a major engagement with one of the the Northeast of England. most prevalent trends in recent philosophy.

14 15 MONO 002 Time to exit the paradigm of contemporary art and its interminable logic of escape, in search of a new type of art theory and practice?

April 2015 On the Paperback 115 x 175mm, 130pp. £14.99 UK / $24.99 US Necessity of ISBN 978-0-9575295-8-8 Art’s Exit from Translation Rights: Urbanomic Contemporary Art SUHAIL MALIK • Polemical and accessible text irresistible to theorists and artists alike • Identifies and disassembles the governing para- digm of art over the past 60 years, opening a new idea and practice of art • Destined to become a necessary critical reference point, post-Relational Aesthetics

Contemporary art’s shortcomings are increasingly evident, hence the continued e³orts to escape art as we know it: the now-familiar emphases on public participation, non-art, smuggling, deterritorialisation, inbetween-ness, eventhood, indeterminacy…. Yet these e³orts simply perpetuate and entrench the very limitations of art they seek to overcome. SUHAIL MALIK is a Reader in In his precisely-argued book, Suhail Malik proposes Critical Studies at Goldsmiths that for art to have substantial and credible traction University of London, where he on anything beyond or larger than itself, it is nec- is Programme Co-Director of essary decisively to exit contemporary art —and the MFA Fine Art, and writes therefore to renounce contemporary art’s logic on political economy, theory, of escape. and the axioms of contempo- rary art. He is currently Visiting But what can this art other to contemporary art’s Fellow at the Center for Cura- paradigm of escape be? What other kind of so- torial Studies at Bard College, cial structure and distribution of power than that New York. prevalent in contemporary art would support it? What should an art that is not contemporary art do?

16 17 18 19 20 21 From derivatives traders to poker experts, a multi-disciplinary investigation of risk, chance, and contingency in the contemporary world.

October 2014 Collapse Vol VIII: Paperback 115 x 175mm, 850pp. £19.99 UK / $34.99 US Casino Real ISBN 978-0-9567750-2-3 Contributors: AMANDA BEECH, JEAN-LUC Translation Rights: Urbanomic MOULÈNE, JEAN CAVAILLÈS, ELIE AYACHE, QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX, SEAN ASHTON, NIGEL COOKE, STEVE FORTE, ILONA GAYNOR, NICK LAND, MILAN CIRKOVIC, JASPAR JOSEPH-LESTER, FERNANDO ZALAMEA, JON ROFFE, NICK SRNICEK AND ALEX WILLIAMS, SAM LEWITT, NATASHA DOW SCHÜLL, JOHN COATES, MARK GURNELL, ZOLTAN SARNYAI, DAVID WALSH, SUHAIL MALIK, MICHEL BITBOL, GEGENSICHKOLLECTIV

Featuring contributors drawn from the highest lev- els of the gambling world, and from žnance, biology, risk management and economics, alongside promi- nent contemporary philosophers, artists, writers and mathematicians, Collapse VIII examines a pervasive image of thought drawn from games of chance, un- covering the conceptual underpinnings of methods developed to extract value from contingency—in the casino, on the market, in life. The essence of probability remains as enigmatic as ever: an idealized construct that neutralizes contin- gency by integrating inžnite ‘throws’; or a real prop- erty, propensity, or ‘random generator’ inherent in the matter of the die? A new mode of knowledge, or a limit to knowing? If the contingencies of the real have increasingly come to be shaped by the casino model and its ulterior world of ‘possibles’ waiting to For more on be ‘realized’, do they not also exceed its powers? the Collapse series, see p35

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REDACTIONS

Redaction is the process of preparing source material for publication, implying both recall, distillation, and a settling of accounts (Redigere – to bring back, reduce down, call in).

Urbanomic’s REDACTIONS reprocess live dialogues, rewriting, reconstructing and reassembling archives of past events.

The original participants are invited to revisit, rethink and re ne their contributions, which are occasionally supplemented by additional resources to further extend the discussion— a montage of collective research in progress.

28 29 What bearing could Speculative Realism have Reports from a geophilosophical eld trip into upon aesthetics in theory and practice? the heart of the anthropocene

October 2014 February 2015 Speculative Paperback 148 x 210mm, 136pp. Paperback 148 x 210mm, 150pp. Hydroplutonic £14.99 UK / $24.99 US £14.99 UK / $24.99 US Aesthetics ISBN 978-0-9575295-7-1 ISBN 978-0-9575295-4-0 Kernow Contributors: AMANDA BEECH, Translation Rights: Urbanomic Translation Rights: Urbanomic Contributors: JAKE CHAPMAN, PAUL RAY BRASSIER, MARK FISHER, CHANEY, IAIN HAMILTON GRANT, ROBIN MACKAY, BENEDICT SINGLETON, KENNA HERNLY, SHAUN LEWIN, ROBIN NICK SRNICEK, JAMES TRAFFORD, MACKAY, REZA NEGARESTANI, JAMES TOM TREVATT, ALEX WILLIAMS, STRONGMAN BEN WOODARD A weird želd trip into Cornwall’s mining heartlands Documenting a roundtable on the ramižcations of with geologists, philosophers and ecologists as Speculative Realism for aesthetics, this discussion guides; drilling down into nature, industry, and cul- ranges from contemporary art’s relation to the tural capital to site the local within the global and aesthetic, to accelerationism and abstraction, logic provide a portrait of geotrauma in action. and design.

Subtle negotiation and productive collaboration Rethinking site-speci city through art, design, between the worlds of mathematics and art philosophy, mathematics, cartography…

March 2015 November 2014 Secrets of Creation Paperback 147 x 210mm, 220pp. Paperback 148 x 210mm, 380pp. When Site Contributors: £14.99 UK / $24.99 US £14.99 UK / $24.99 US CONRAD SHAWCROSS, ISBN 978-0-9575295-1-9 ISBN 978-0-9575295-6-4 Lost the Plot MATTHEW WATKINS Translation Rights: Urbanomic Translation Rights: Urbanomic Contributors: PAUL CHANEY, NICK FERGUSON, MARK FISHER & Urbanomic’s residency brought together artist JUSTIN BARTON, DAN FOX, Conrad Shawcross and mathematician Matthew JOHN GERRARD, SHAUN LEWIN, Watkins for a week, to re²ect on artists’ use (or ROBIN MACKAY, YVES METTLER, misuse) of mathematical concepts. REZA NEGARESTANI, ANDREA PHILIPS, Secrets of Creation documents this fascinating MATTHEW POOLE, BENEDICT meeting of worlds and presents both the week’s SINGLETON, JUSTIN SHAFFNER, discussions and debates, and the project they ROMAN VASSEUR, MATTHEW WATKINS subsequently embarked on together. The concepts of site, place, and plot are addressed from a variety of new perspectives—with practis- ing artists alongside theorists drawn from a variety of di³erent disciplines and perspectives. 30 31 32 33 All volumes of Urbanomic’s groundbreaking journal now reissued in a new format Collapse Journal of Philosophical Research and Development

Collapse is an independent, non-a¸liated journal of philosophical research and development, launched in 2006, and which has been instrumental in foster- ing and introducing to the public many major new strands of philosophical thought that have emerged over the last decade. The aim of the series, each volume of which is ini- tially issued in a limited edition of 1000, is to bring together philosophers and theorists, artists and scientists to explore fundamental themes and ideas which academic philosophy, in its tendency towards specialisation and partisanship, increasingly fails to address. Each volume is carefully curated so that contribu- tions from very di³erent areas of research intersect in unexpected and productive ways, suggesting new lines of thought. All the previous volumes of Collapse are now available in new paperpack editions, with ebook editions available from December 2014.

Volume I: Numerical Materialism Reissued Edition ISBN 978-0-9553087-5-8 Volume II: Speculative Realism Reissued Edition ISBN 978-0-9567750-4-7 Volume III: Unknown Deleuze Reissued Edition ISBN 978-0-9567750-5-4 Volume IV: Concept Horror Reissued Edition ISBN 978-0-9567750-6-1 Volume V: The Copernican Imperative Reissued Edition ISBN 978-0-9567750-7-8 Volume VI: Geo/Philosophy Reissued Edition ISBN 978-0-9567750-8-5 Volume VII: Culinary Materialism Reissued Edition ISBN 978-0-9567750-9-2

34 35 36 37 38 39 BESTSELLERS × Can what is playing you make it to Level 2?

Fanged Noumena Paperback 115 x 175mm, 675pp. Collected Writings 1987–2007 £14.99 UK / $27.95 US ISBN 978-0-9553087-8-9 NICK LAND E-book 978-0-9832169-4-0 • One and only collection of Land’s early writings Translation Rights: has attracted a new and growing audience Sequence/Urbanomic • A series of intense, alarming texts mixing phi- losophy, literature, fiction, cryptography, ending Land had the most in delirium and dissolution… brilliantly“ seductive and meteoric mind, endlessly During the 1990s Land’s unique philosophical work, imaginative and capable variously described as ‘rabid ’, ‘mad black deleuzianism’ and ‘cybergothic’, developed perhaps of adopting, inhabiting the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape and discarding any philo- route out of the malaise of ‘’, sophical position. With Land’s work has continued to exert an in²uence, him - and rightly so - phi- both through the British speculative realist philoso- losophy infected every phers who studied with him, and through the many area of life. cultural producers who have been invigorated by his ” uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision. Simon Critchley

Fanged Noumena collects the papers, talks and ar- Theory as ticles of the mid-90s—long the subject of rumour ction:“ Land’s machinic and vague legend (including some work which has theory-poetry paral- never previously appeared in print)—in which Land lelled the digital intensi- developed his futuristic theory-žction of cybercapi- talism gone amok; and ends with his enigmatic later ties of 90s jungle, techno writings in which Ballardian žctions, poetics, cryp- and doomcore, anticipat- tography, anthropology, grammatology and the oc- ing ‘impending human cult are smeared into unrecognisable hybrids. extinction becoming accessible as a dance- Fanged Noumena allows a dizzying perspective ®oor.’ on the trajectory of this provocative and in²uential ” thinker’s work, and has introduced his unique voice Mark Fisher to a new generation of readers. NICK LAND is a philosopher, journalist and blogger who lives and works in Shanghai.

40 41 BESTSELLERS × A compelling introduction to non-philosophy through a subtle yet startling new theory of the photographic image

The Concept of Bilingual Edition (EN/FR) Paperback 115 x 175mm, 303pp. Non-Photography £14.99 UK / $21.95 US FRANÇOIS LARUELLE ISBN 978-0-9832169-1-9 E-Book ISBN 978-0-9832169-5-7 • Bilingual French/English edition beautifully Translation Rights: produced in tête-bêche format Sequence/Urbanomic • Of interest to photographers, students of visual culture, and philosophers seeking an introduction to Laruelle’s work “What excites Laruelle If philosophy has always understood itself and its is that photography in- World according to the model of the photograph, carnates a decisionless then how can there be a ‘philosophy of photogra- move from original to phy’ that is not viciously self-re²exive? copy. Hence, contrary to By thinking the photograph non-philosophically, the whole modern histo- Laruelle discovers an essence of photography that ry of photography theory precedes its historical, technological and aesthetic that assumes a wholly conditions. specular relationship be- Challenging the customary assumptions made tween photography and by any theory of photography that leaves its own its referents, photogra- ‘onto-photo-logical’ conditions uninterrogated, and phy is, in itself, a funda- utilizing the concept of a ‘generalized fractality’ to interrogate artistic creation, The Concept of mentally anti-specular Non-Photography develops a rigorous new thinking mechanism. of the photograph in its relation to science, philoso- Philosophy of” Photography phy and art, and introduces the reader to all of the key concepts of Laruelle’s ‘non-philosophy.’

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The only comprehensive introduction to Laruelle’s Non-Philosophy and Non-Standard Philosophy

Paperback 115 x 175mm, 512pp. From Decision £14.99 UK / $27.95 US to Heresy ISBN 978-0-9832169-0-2 Translation Rights: FRANÇOIS LARUELLE Sequence/Urbanomic

• Contains newly-translated essays dating from Laruelle’s first works to the present day Covering nearly thirty • Introduction draws on an extended interview years“ of material, and so with Laruelle about his life and work charting Laruelle’s work • Includes essays and experimental texts never through every stage of its before translated • A definitive historical introduction to all the key turn to Non-Philosophy concepts of Laruelle’s non-standard philosophy proper, From Decision to Heresy is a crucial vol- François Laruelle is increasingly recognized as a ma- ume for anyone coming jor philosophical žgure, with an increasing number to this radically different of studies dedicated to his work in philosophy and kind of thought for the beyond. rst time. A very import- From Decision to Heresy provides a collection of ant collection. English translations of the writings of this creative John Mullarkey,” and subversive French philosopher, opening with an Kingston University introduction based upon an in-depth interview with the author that traces the abiding concerns of his proližc output. FRANÇOIS LARUELLE, Profes- The eleven newly translated essays that follow, dat- sor Emeritus at the University of ing from 1985 to the present, range from the origins Paris X (Nanterre), is the author of of ‘non-philosophy’ to its evolution into what Laruel- more than twenty books, including le now calls ‘non-standard philosophy’, providing the Biography of the Ordinary Man, most comprehensive ‘reader’ for Laruelle’s project Theory of Strangers, Principles to date. Two appendices present a number of Laru- of Non-Philosophy, Future Christ, elle’s experimental texts, which have not previously Struggle and Utopia at the End appeared in English translation; and a transcript of Times of Philosophy, Anti-Badiou, an early intervention and discussion on his ‘transval- and Non-Standard Philosophy. uation’ of Kant’s transcendental method.

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Discover the new conceptual instruments and operations developed by the mathematical mind

Synthetic Paperback 115 x 175mm, 380pp. £14.99 UK / $26.95 US Philosophy of ISBN 978-0-9567750-1-6 Contemporary Translation Rights: Author A weighty and daring Mathematics book…this“ new syn- FERNANDO ZALAMEA thetic and open-minded approach is no doubt • Addresses broad developments in post-1950s mathematics from a philosophical perspective worthy of attention, and • Conceptual introduction to mathematical philosophers who dare to themes rarely discussed outside specialist circles make an effort will surely • Tools and insights that are becoming increas- reap the reward. ingly important for new philosophical thought Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe,” MathSciNet The predominant analytic approach in philosophy of mathematics has e³ectively divorced philoso- phy from the real practice of mathematics and the Zalamea opens up profound conceptual shifts in the discipline over a“ breathtaking insight the last century. Zalamea’s book poses a challenge into advanced contem- to this self-imposed ignorance of the ‘making of porary mathematics by mathematics’. enlightening its magical Zalamea’s case studies examine the greatest crea- power with the power- tors in the želd, compiling a map of the central ad- ful paradigm of gestural vances accomplished in mathematics over the last dynamics as developed half-century—and drawing from them the program by Valéry, Merleau-Ponty for an ambitious new epistemology that avails itself and Châtelet. of the powerful conceptual instruments developed ” by the mathematical mind. Guerino Mazzola, University of Minnesota If analytic philosophy was forged in the žres of set theory and classical logic at the beginning of the FERNANDO ZALAMEA is Profes- twentieth century, then today, at the dawn of the sor of Mathematics at the Univer- twenty-žrst, and around the sca³olding of category sidad Nacional de Colombia. theory and the logic of sheaves, it is time for a com- plementary, synthetic philosophy to be built. 46 47 ×

Detective Story, Literary Study, and Philosophical Treatise in one…a Da Vinci Code for the Being and Event Generation…

Paperback 115 x 175mm, 298pp. The Number and £14.99 UK / $25.95 US ISBN 978-0-9832169-2-6 The Siren Translation Rights: Fayard A Decipherment of Mallarmé’s Coup de Dés A page-turner…I hav- en’t“ read a critical book QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX with such eagerness to nd out what happens • A compulsively readable journey of discovery taking in poetics, philosophy, religion, numerology, next for a very long time. and cultural theory Beautifully produced and • Introduces a simple yet astonishing new inter- translated, a book every pretation of Mallarmé’s major work poetry lover will want • Adds new dimension to Meillassoux’s speculative to have in his pocket to materialism and philosophy of contingency read on bus, train and

Quentin Meillassoux, author of After Finitude, con- plane. tinues his philosophical interrogation of the con- Gabriel” Josipovici cepts of chance, contingency, inžnity and eternity Times Literary through a concentrated study of Mallarmé’s poem Supplement Un Coup de Dés, unveiling the meaning of that siren, emerging for a lightning-²ash amongst the debris of the shipwreck: as the living heart of a drama that is Meillassoux has added still unfolding. a“ crucial dimension no- With this bold new interpretation of Mallarmé’s work, body ever noticed de- The Number and the Siren o³ers brilliant insights spite innumerable ‘close into modernity, poetics, secularism and religion, and readings’. opens a new chapter in Meillassoux’s philosophy of Daniel Birnbaum” radical contingency. Artforum

QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX teach- es philosophy at Université de Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and is author of After Finitude (2006).

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