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Root the Earth: On Peak Oil Apophenia
- Benjamin H. Bratton (author)
Chapter of: Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium(pp. 45–57)
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Title | Root the Earth |
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Subtitle | On Peak Oil Apophenia |
Contributor | Benjamin H. Bratton (author) |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0017.1.04 |
Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/leper-creativity-cyclonopedia-symposium/ |
License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Copyright | Bratton, Benjamin H. |
Publisher | punctum books |
Published on | 2012-12-22 |
Long abstract | After the end of the world, what is the polity of the inhuman? What is its government of energy? It is programmatic reconfigurability: a general economy of plasticity. It extends around the anthropomorphic physiognomy of architecture and toward an acephalic geography emerging in the image of strong computa-tional equivalence. The prototype of an indeterminate future government is positioned by an encounter be-tween that equivalence and the numinous decay of ecological entropy and negentropy: oil as body of the world, and the “worlding” of the body of oil. Peak oil, and after. Reza Negarestani’s own program in his theoreti-cal-novel, Cyclonopedia, is both geography and geophilosophy, yes, but also geopolitics, in the specif-ic sense of a Jamesonian geopolitical aesthetic.1 I wish to instrumentalize the text and to de-metaphorize its obsessions, and to link these to those of another short text of my own: “The language of utopia has shifted. The cybernetics of scenario planning has given way to the apophenia of eschatology. Is geopolitics but a Dark Side of the Rainbow effect? With this shift, information becomes unmanageable, non-linear, associa-tive, arbitrary. Anything is enrolled into the local rhetoric of conspiracy . . .” |
Page range | pp. 45–57 |
Print length | 13 pages |
Language | English (Original) |
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