Materialism Research Lab:
Hegel
Dialectics, Materialism, and Contradiction
Ray Brassier:
Posthuman Pragmatism: Selecting Power
The Human: From Subversion to Compulsion
“Sensuous Supra-Sensuous”: The Aesthetics of Real Abstraction
Marx, Real Abstraction, and the Question of Form
Towards a Realism of the Abstract
Real Abstraction and the Critique of Juridical Ideology
"A Phantom with Limbs of Steel": Fascism and Real Abstraction
Conrad Hamilton
Marxism: Science or Humanism
Staying With Sohn-Rethel: On the Embryosis of Capital
Jaleh Mansoor
‘Universal Prostitution’ or Concrete Abstraction: Notes on Francis Picabia’s Diagnostic Dada Diagrams
Roberto Finelli
The abstraction of capital versus the abstraction of money: the hypothesis of a debate between K. Marx and A. Sohn-Rethel
Richard Seaford
Real Abstraction and Early Greek Philosophy
Jason Moore
The Modern Dangerous Words: Man, Nature, and the Worldwide Class Struggle
Frank Engster
The Blind Spot in Sohn-Rethel and in Marxist Critique: The Technique of Measurement
Paul Reynolds
Real Abstraction: Some Thoughts on Sexuality and Embodied Pleasure
Maya Gonzalez
Real Abstraction and the Logic of Gender
Matthew McManus
Text:
Sahej Rahal: Comic – The Etymology of Insaan
Yvette Granata: Creative short text, co-authored by the AI RNN in the Data-Slime piece.
Hadi Bastani: Towards a Decelerationist Manifesto
Sepideh Majidi - Zohreh Eksiri Farsi Translation of Reza Negarestani's ‘Undercover Softness’
Sepideh Majidi: 0Ocean
Kaushik Varma: Noema: Conception of Form and Meaning in AI
Sabeen Chaudhry: #Cloudbusting
Archive:
Julian Mathews: Beyond_Woke_Problematic
Bochra Taboubi: HUMAN ABYSS
Rodrigo Gutierrez: The Stone and The Ripples
Gagan Singh: The imagined Erotic World
Kaushik Varma: Noema: Conception of Form and Meaning in AI
Lil Lonely: Narcissus as Narcosis and The Dichotomy of Cyberspace and the Facade
Sarah Fallah: ReverCity
Hallidonto: Omega Externo & Hivemind Omega
VR, Games, Interactive art
Yvette Granata: Xenovision (Artifacts of Parabiological Bias), VR, 2020 & Data-Slime, VR, 2019
Sahej Rahal: an AI program - Juggernaut & Shrota
Hallidonto: Cyborg Cadavers piece
Film- Video
Sahej Rahal: Forerunner- Film
Felice Grodin and AdrienneRose Gionta: 2041
Umber Majeed: Hypersurface of the Present & Trans-Pakistan Zindabad
Gerard Carson: Emergence (animation)
Bochra Taboubi: Identifying Drive System
Mo Chu:
Sepideh Majidi: Island
Hoçâ Cové-Mbede: ReifiCO2tion: Into the packaging aesthetics of CO2-Necrophilia
XUAN Ye: What Nebula, What Hyperbolic Light, What Flora and Fauna
Bassem Saad: Kink Retrograde
Simin Azarpour and Mehdi rafi Cyclo-analysis (Variations 1,2,3)
Kiymet Dastan Memrory Burn
Eunsol Lee Construction of a Virtual World
Lecture Performance-Artist talk
Nadim Choufi Entangle for the Alien to Continue
Kiran Mehra Neu theory
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THe exhibition Limitrophy is the fourth edition of an ongoing exhibition in foreign objekt Research network.
Ed.1 Foreign objekt
Ed.2 Immutaion
Ed-3 transformative formations
Ed-4 Limitrophy
Foreign Objekt: an exploration through catastrophe, cyber-chaos, fracture, and collapse, totally strange, hyper-chaotic, disintegrated and alien.
An investigation into the future, with some questions: Can we imagine “the outside of thought” and is it outside the realm of language? How can we think about possible bodies—alien forms with different cognitive states? What is a Foreign Object? What is the collapse of consciousness? How do we experience events that cannot be scientifically measured—failed measurements? What does it mean to compute something uncomputable?
Immutation explores the tension between possible worlds and what we take to be possible; the catastrophic, peculiar encounter with that which is fundamentally different. Not to explain how our reality can change, but how a process can reach change, without a transformation of the same world. With a catastrophic pursuit—we are looking at fictional worlds, possible worlds, and science fictional worlds and their constructions, as a matter of investigation, with traceable or muted ingredients and parts from our worlds.
transformative formations looking at the collective methodologies of local political/social formations that allow transformations or alterations at the level of global structures. There are two main questions: What are the transformative powers of local formations? Moreover, what are Transformative Formations?
Limitrophy Through the initial research we have looked at the defects and limitations of the local spaces and their particular constitutions. From there we are looking at the boundaries between the local structure and the universe of which it is a part. When we can answer the question of what the boundaries are, we can then violate or transgress them.