Contemporanea

CONTENTS
1 THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: OVERTURE 1
Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa

REMNANTS
2 ANAMNESIA 9
3 NECROBIOSIS 15
4 DISRUPTION 21
5 SEA RUINS 25
6 DUMP 31

SENSORIA
7 IMAGING 37
8 ACOUSTICS 51
9 RESENTMENT/RESSENTIMENT 57
10 MADNESS 67
11 BODY: "WE DON’T YET KNOW WHAT A BODY IS FOR" 79
12 RESONANCE 83

MATERIALITIES
13 THE EMPRESS: ON ABUNDANCE = GENEROSITY + GENERATIVITY 95
14 ARCHIPELAGO 99
15 PLASTIC IS PLASTIC 107
16 LIQUIDITY (OR YOU CAN’T BE ALONE IN A LIQUIDITY POOL) 113
17 PLACENTA, THE COMPANION OF THE DEPTHS 121

ECOPOIESIS
18 REGENERATION 129
19 NATURE 137
20 ANIMALS 143
21 INTERSPECIES 153
22 PLANT SEXUALITY 163
23 ARACHNOMANCY 175

PRAXES
24 WORLD STATE 193
25 THE NUCLEAR TABOO AND THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 197

26 PRIVACING 201
27 ON PEACE (DIMLY LIT) 207
28 LABOR-POWER (ARBEITSKRAFT; 労働力) 213
29 INSTITUTION 225
30 POLITICAL MANNERISM 231
31 AMBIGUITY 241
32 PARRHESIA 247

TECHNICS
33 WIRED BRAIN 259
34 AUTOMATION 263
35 TESLAISM: ECONOMICS AT THE END OF THE END OF THE FUTURE 273
36 BAYESIAN PROBABILITY 289
37 EXONET 293

TEMPORALITIES
38 ECOTRAUMA 303
39 LULLABY: PROTOTYPES OF FUTURE EVIL 309
40 HAUNTING: PLANT GHOSTS AND CHRONO-GARDENING 317

41 FUTURITIES 325
42 ANARKHÍA: THE RETURN OF AIR 333
43 DÉFAILLANCE: OF PHILOSOPHY 337

CONTRIBUTORS 345

edited by Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa