Post-History
by Vilém Flusser

Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilém Flusser continually asks in Post-History. Written initially as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently developed as a book and published for the first time in Brazil in 1983. This, the first English translation of Post-History finally brings to an Anglophone readership Flusser’s first critique of apparatus as the aesthetic, ethical and epistemological model of present times..... Read More

Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy
by François Laruelle

Very few thinkers have traveled the heretical path that François Laruelle walks between philosophy and non-philosophy. For Laruelle, the future of philosophy is problematic, but a mutation of its functions is possible. Up until now, philosophy has merely been a utopia concerned with the past and only provided the services of its conservation. We must introduce a rigorous and non-imaginary practice of a utopia in action, a philo-fiction – a close relative to science-fiction.... Read More

Two Lessons on Animal and Man
by Gilbert Simondon

Simondon is a secret password amongst certain discussions taking place within philosophy today. His thought has been championed by noted thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler. As a philosopher of technology, Simondon’s work has a place at the forefront of current thinking in media, technology, psychology and philosophy with complex accounts of man’s relationship to technology and the realm which continues to form itself via this tension between man and his technical universe.... Read More

The Dionysian Vision of the World
by Friedrich Nietzsche

Before the world knew of the thinker who “philosophizes with a hammer”, there was a young, passionate thinker who was captivated by the two forces found within Greek art: Dionysus and Apollo. In this essay that would be the forerunner to his groundbreaking book, The Birth of Tragedy, The Dionysian Vision of the World, provides an unparalleled look into.... Read More