Skip to main content
punctum books

Root the Earth: On Peak Oil Apophenia

  • Benjamin H. Bratton (author)

Export Metadata

  • ONIX 3.0
    • Thoth
      Cannot generate record: No publications supplied
    • Project MUSE
      Cannot generate record: No BIC or BISAC subject code
    • OAPEN
      Cannot generate record: Missing PDF URL
    • JSTOR
      Cannot generate record: No BISAC subject code
    • Google Books
      Cannot generate record: No BIC, BISAC or LCC subject code
    • OverDrive
      Cannot generate record: Missing Long Abstract
  • ONIX 2.1
  • CSV
  • JSON
  • OCLC KBART
  • BibTeX
  • CrossRef DOI deposit
    Cannot generate record: This work does not have any ISBNs
  • MARC 21 Record
    Cannot generate record: MARC records are not available for chapters
  • MARC 21 Markup
    Cannot generate record: MARC records are not available for chapters
  • MARC 21 XML
    Cannot generate record: MARC records are not available for chapters
Metadata
TitleRoot the Earth
SubtitleOn Peak Oil Apophenia
ContributorBenjamin H. Bratton (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0017.1.04
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/leper-creativity-cyclonopedia-symposium/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightBratton, Benjamin H.
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-22
Long abstractAfter 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 rangepp. 45–57
Print length13 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)