Xeno Futurism Issue 2: Magazine Launch 'Technologies of Domination'
Xeno Futurism: Technologies of Domination marks the launch of Issue 2 of Xeno Futurism, a critical theory journal exploring the intersections of philosophy, media, and technology.
The second issue presents a bold collection of theory-fiction, critical essays, poetry, and visual works that unravel the tangled realities of contemporary technics, artificial intelligence, and the psychosocial architectures of domination.
The evening will open with a 30-minute talk by the Xeno Futurism editorial team, introducing the new issue and the editorial vision that threads through its pages from machine thought and algorithmic control to questions of consciousness and resistance in digital culture.
Our keynote speaker, Alfie Bown (King’s College London, Digital Media Culture and Technology), will deliver a talk examining the technological implications of the digital on politics, culture, and the individual through a psychoanalytic lens. His keynote will also introduce ideas from his forthcoming work, Psychotic Capitalism.
Following the keynote, a panel of contributors from Issue 2 will expand on the issue’s themes through a series of short talks and discussion:
Ivar Frisch — Accelerating Machine Vision into Darkness
Willem Deisinger — Psychopolitics, Amulets, and Psychohacking
Blue Lam — Daoist Philosophy and Cosmotechnics as Gateway to Reconciling our Relationship to the Cyberspace
Bringing together thinkers from philosophy, cultural theory, and media studies, Technologies of Domination invites critical engagement with how technology mediates perception, subjectivity, and power in an age of accelerated technology.
Date: 26th November
Time: 6:00–9:30pm
Venue: Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 7DG
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