A member of the Radical Open Access Collective, Culture Machine is a series of experiments in culture and theory. Since 1999, it has sought out and promoted scholarly work that engages provocatively with contemporary technical objects, processes and imaginaries from the North and South. Building on its open ended, non-instrumental, and exploratory approach to media theory, cultural studies and political philosophy, Culture Machine welcomes creative proposals that contest and come up against globalizing technical narratives and the environmental logics of extraction.
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Rebekka Kiesewetter started the topic Culture Machine Vol. 23 (2024) Publishing After Progress in the discussion
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 2 years agoVol. 23 (2024)
Publishing After Progress
Progress …. might well have the character of a quicksand, suffusing the very modern mode of evaluation from which the values of global development, infinite growth, scientific advance, technological innovation, salvage accumulation, and ethical betterment are derived. And it is one w…[Read more] -
Nigel Clark deposited La justicia y el cambio climático abrupto in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 2 years agoTraducción parcial, por Irina López Rodríguez y Gabriela Méndez Cota, del capítulo 5, ‘Justice and Abrupt Climate Change’, de Clark, N. (2011) Inhuman Nature. Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet. London: Sage, 107-136.
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Nigel Clark deposited Molten Praxis: Infrapolitics and the Inner-Outer Earth Juncture in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 2 years agoSetting out from accounts of metal working by authors Colson Whitehead and Toni Morrison, the paper looks at how heat-induced transformation of inorganic matter is at once a condition of possibility of modern politics and tends to overflow politicization. While Anthropocene science directs attention to the interaction between the flows of the…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Infrapolitical Epimetheia: A Wondrous Machine in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay derives from a conference paper in Spanish titled Figuras de Epimeteo, which revisited interpretations of the Greek myth of Epimetheus, the forgetful brother of Prometheus and the forgotten husband of Pandora. Ivan Illich (1922-2002) and Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) borrowed the figure of Epimetheus in the process of elaborating an…[Read more]