{"title":"VAT OVERRIDE","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"affects-dreams-a-manual-for-becoming-pre-order","title":"Affects \u0026 Dreams: a manual for Becoming by niko mas","description":"\u003cp\u003eAffects \u0026amp; Dreams: a manual for Becoming, the first book authored by niko mas, is a relatively quick dive into the waters of Becoming; a schizo-guide to our publishing practice (why, how, and for what cause do we publish\/transmit). We tell the story of a radio show that bridged our project Crossdressing Diogenes with our latest project, Becoming. In telling the story of how we arrived here at all, we have a chance to index all of the fields and domains that Becoming has entered into so far, and begins to maniacally draw lines through many subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIn telling the story of how a radio show hosted by a record label lead to a publishing practice in such a way, we have a chance to begin explicating our take on the changing winds in those most dirty of social sciences and biology. For thousands of years, the West has held music as a matter of pure rationale, something purely of the intellect, but when the body is just an ear itself, and when one might say we are all, at once, being-in-music (or becoming-as-music), how we think about music has to change dramatically, how we speak music or speak about music has to change – music must be able to become something radically \"unmusical\", to cast off the Image-of-itself that it, like and as philosophy, has become; we must once again pursue a non-music fit for a non-sociology; or better, we must approach a quantum musical social ontology. This book is our first attempt to write towards a theory of a Musica Universalis of the social, the noise (harmony) of the social sphere(s).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNaturally, given the context of the project, we wanted to launch this book alongside a revamped version of our radio show, beginning today on Lumbung Radio at 9am (the live show is aimed at insomniacs who refuse to sleep so that capital may never dream), but the shows are immediately archived for everyone else to access.\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCERPTS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the most interesting ideas for us at Becoming is the concept of Quantum Foam, a sort of porous membrane underneath everything, sometimes imagined as a surface of densely packed bubbles on an infinite pool of liquid, but also sometimes romantically imagined as a complex mycelium anchoring the actual into the virtual (Ford \u0026amp; Wheeler, 2000: 522). This Quantum Foam is virtually unknowable to us, and its existence suggests that below the threshold of our perception exists a dynamic, bubbling pool, and everything we can know and understand bubbles out of that pool, rising up like waves on turbulent waters. As waves rise out of the water, they pass across the threshold of what is knowable to us, and appear to jump into existence as some solitary event, some self-contained particle jumping in and out of existence.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— \u003ci\u003eChapter I: Impulses-becoming-traces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “While the speaker cone moves in and out by a matter of millimeters, the air around your ears is fully in flux, shifting around your ears in large extrapolated analogies of the original signal. The signal propagates through the air as the machinery forces the air to move in a way that is analogical to the original code. The particles that make up the air move closer together and further apart, in waves; it is a matter of compression and rarefaction. This is how the original impulse is encoded into the air, as the way particles move can be controlled. The ear captures the encoded air like the backboard of a basketball hoop, the air falls down the ear hole into a new series of conversion machines. These controlled patterns of motion enter the ear, and are captured by the ear drum, a tiny filament that moves back and forth in a way that is analogous with the motion of the air, almost as if imitating the way the speaker cone dances. The speaker cone, the eardrum, and the needle are at that moment aligned, all caught in a moment of imitation.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003e Chapter II: Analogical Becomings \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We can imagine all of these entities, Barking Cats, Crossdressing Diogenes, Becoming, Noods Radio, Coral Bay, and so on, as particles, and as they come together, they collide and interact. It was at this time that the protagonist particle of this story, Lumbung Radio, appeared. This story, and by extension this book, propagated out of that collision. Lumbung, an extension of Documenta Fifteen, was looking for participants in a radio-based project called Lumbung Radio. The word Lumbung was important to Ruangrupa’s organization of Documenta Fifteen, a word that means “Communal Rice Barn” in Indonesia. 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While it was thematically loose, bundles of threads started to form, as if a yet-indistinct theme had started coagulating amongst the chaos. This magazine will take its own course, as we grant more and more editorial and creative freedom to those who choose to participate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf anyone was around in 2021 when we released the prototype of Becoming Magazine, one will see a clear connection, but it is also abundantly clear that a lot has changed, we have become better organizers and designers since then. We still believe that this is still in its embryonic stages as a magazine, but as grows, more of you join in and slowly something more mature is forming.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the emergent patterns revolve around cultural memory, with some key interests in language, archiving, and semiotics. There are also darker themes coalescing, with Szepanski’s lamentation of what we can only describe as the Hyperreal Porn Machine, and a contemplation on Suicide from blks.666. k0 made itself into myriad symmetrical demons, and wrote an article about Faces.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONTENTS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Plato in Sicily: Zen in the Eyes of the Femboy\" by Claire Elise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"More to investigate; Less that is hidden\" k0 interviews Ubungxenye\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Suicide's special language\" by blks.666\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Abuses of the state\" by Foucauldian Femboy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Quantum Social Class: Diogenes' search for 'some third other thing'\" by Claire Elise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Baudrillard: After the Orgy\" by Achim Szepanski\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Demonic Symmetry: Every pronoun is a non-binary pronoun if you try hard enough\" by k0\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Appetite for destruction\" by George Rallis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Iara Lee: Interview\" by Claire Elise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16.5x24cm, 108 pages \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISSN: 2672-8818\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 1st April 2023\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted and Produced by Becoming in Cyprus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46978380726606,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/IssueOne_clay_square_3000x3000_b0a44c74-701d-4639-bbac-54d4cefe77d7.png?v=1761727321"},{"product_id":"dialogues-on-corecore-the-contemporary-online-avant-garde-onty-smith-eds-et-al-2024","title":"Dialogues on CoreCore \u0026 the Contemporary Online Avant-Garde by 0nty \u0026 Smith (Eds.) et al.","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eWhere do you begin with a book like this; a book containing dialogues on a micro contemporary avant-garde video art movement on social media called “CoreCore”? It is, as “\u003ci\u003e0nty\u003c\/i\u003e”, the lead editor said, more of a toll booth; this book ensures no possiblity for the artists to be cut out of the loop when the academics arrive en scene. That aside, it is a fascinating collection of texts on cultural theory, psychoanalysis and philosophy, which, as filmmaker and contributor Mischa Dols said: “has no right to be as good a book as it is; it wasn’t supposed to actually be good”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book follows on from the proceedings of \"All Things are Nothing to Us\", a symposium on CoreCore and the Contemporary Online Avant-Garde, held on December 2nd. 2023, at the School of Visual Arts, NYC; organized by 0nty and OnMyComputer (Dylan Smith). The book contains a mass of visual art from upward of 140 contributors. Monumental book.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eCoreCore is the term that is associated with a particular practice of film-making (read arranging moving-images) that has emerged through social media apps like TikTok. Taking its name from the -corification of aesthetics in the Tumblr-era (fairycore, cottagecore), CoreCore usually involves, as Louis Morelle writes in the book, images concatenated against each other. Lucas Ferraço Nassif theorized that, like the Japanese concept of Ma, something jumps out from the gaps in-between images: \"CoreCore is two words, but its the same word, and there is a mirror-stage between the two cores: who is going to confirm what the core is?\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together artists and theorists who were either part of the movement, or fans of the movement, close to it, and so on, to create an anthology which explores the movement on its own terms, and ensures that no academic can ever discuss CoreCore without citing this book, and thus ensuring the underground their place in the discussion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cu\u003eFeaturing\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e0nty • Dylan Smith (OnMyComputer) • John-Robin Bold • Bebe_Crotte • Societyiftextwall • Aemmonia • Emonie Fay Chetwin (Xleepyfay) • Alice Aster • Anastasija Pavić • Anastasiia Pishchanska (shelestvetrovki) • Ash Ingram • ChaoticRhizomatic • Crisis Acting • Dana Dawud • Daniel Neeman • Edson Javier Rogil • Hunter Thompson • Joe Iovino (Levels of Nuance) • John DeSousa • John Michael • Jomel • Liam Harding (X._.pulp) • Louis Higgins - Louis Morelle • Maria Puglisi • Mason Noel • Mischa Dols • i0 xen0 • Nicholas Sanchez (Wonderful Cringe) • Nick Vyssotsky • Nikolaos Sakkadakis • Orion Arnold • Persis Bekkering • Redacted Cut • Reed McDonaldson • Rokas Vaičiulis • Rozzlyn Agnes K • Soham Adhikari • Uba • Zoey Solomon • Machine Yearning • Jordi Viader Guerrero • Tommaso Campagna • Kali Masoch \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eDialogues on CoreCore \u0026amp; the Contemporary Online Avant-Garde (2024)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: \u003ci\u003eOnty, Morelle, L., Dawud, D.,\u003c\/i\u003e et al.\u003cbr\u003eEditor(s): \u003ci\u003eOnty (Eds.)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOnMyComputer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: April 2024\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: (becoming)05A\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8118-0-9 (Print)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Perfect Bound\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 14.8cm x 21cm\u003cbr\u003ePages: 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains over 140 artistic contributions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesign by \u003ci\u003eOnty\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e0nty, OnMyComputer \u003c\/i\u003e(Eds.) 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The first came at the very beginning, as a magazine published by our old record label, the second came just before we opened our Publishing House. Now, as we enter a new era, this magazine, the fruit of the Becoming Tree, is ripe enough to fall.     \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue is dedicated to the first-born of Becoming, a record label named Eternal\/Return. We are using ÊT\/RE to return to our centre, Music. Yet, we have a specific take on music that we wish to dedicate ÊT\/RE to: we want to view music as a matter of world-building, of utterance, invocation—music is the second fire of Prometheus, we must carry it into the dark as we would a flame. Music is arcane; it is a ritual of summoning, of calling a forth a future—it is with sound that we create new spacetimes, and with music we create new worlds. It is hard to talk about music without talking about everything else. So that's what we did.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin us in this third edition, Issue Two, as we sit down with a group of musicians, writers and artists to talk about music and everything that comes with it: from Bach, to Berghain. From Rebetiko to Underground Pop. From AI to Ocean Currents. From Electromagnetism to the Fall of Man. We have 8 stories to tell, from 8 contributors, all illustrated and illuminated with collage work and photography contributions themed around mythology, tarot, and other forms of world-weaving. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeatured: Charles Mudede, Female Wizard, Mystiki Fleva, Rose Laurel, Ibrahim Alfa Jnr,  IOLI, Palais Sinclaire \u0026amp; 0nty.   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONTENTS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMusic is older than the World. \u003c\/em\u003eEditor's Letter by Palais Sinclaire.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Affinity between Music \u0026amp; Divinity.\u003c\/em\u003e In conversation with Charles Mudede. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA Body complicates. \u003c\/em\u003eIn conversation with Female Wizard. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMusic, the Ocean \u0026amp; Man: Three modes of Movement.\u003c\/em\u003e In conversation with Mystiki Fleva.   \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePrelude to our [Eternal\/Return].\u003c\/em\u003e In conversation with Rose Laurel. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Alfa \u0026amp; Omega of Ibrahim Junior.\u003c\/em\u003e In conversation with Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eHonestly... \u003c\/em\u003eIn conversation with IOLI. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eNostalgia for Non-Places: Some posthumous notes on Vaporwave\u003c\/em\u003e by 0nty. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISSN: 2672-8818 (print)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISSN: 2672-8826 (online)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e80 pages, A4, colour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdited by Claire Elise \u0026amp; Polymnia\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49047663903054,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/IssueTwofront_clay_square_3000x3000_841f6493-1b62-44d3-b0a0-74dabfbb7c46.png?v=1761726382"},{"product_id":"siahkal-2-0-an-a-i-resurrected-discourse-on-marxism-islam-2025","title":"SIAHKAL 2.0: An A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism \u0026 Islam (2025)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis is a limited edition book. The author trained an LLM on the texts of a deceased theorist, and then proceeded to interact with the LLM and produce simulations of what the theorist may have said in regards to various pertinent topics. The book is primarily a free online resource, but a few copies are being printed to commemorate the work. It has a foreword and afterword by the Editors. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the core of this project is a translation of “Marxist Islam or Islamic Marxism,” a groundbreaking text written by Bizhan Jazani during his imprisonment in the 1970s under the Shah’s oppressive regime. Translated by Parham Ghalamdar, this work is accompanied by an introduction contextualizing Jazani’s radical vision. 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The machine functions as a probe that widens attention while remaining accountable to the source. Parham Ghalamdar trained the AI, wrote the introduction, and composed ASCII diagrams and diagrammatic readings from Jazani’s artworks. Parsa Esmaeilzadeh contributes an essay that reads Jazani through Karatani and left accelerationism. \/\/ It is a call to reimagine and export revolution as a Deep Object that asks for Deep Time to unfold. This clandestine edition invites the reader to study, test, and build strategy that can outlast the news cycle and meet the future head on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParham Ghalamdar is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in the UK. Ghalamdar’s work traces forgotten mythologies, buried philosophies, and visual ruins, reconfiguring them into speculative worlds where memory, fiction, and futurism collapse into one another. Drawing on cybernetic theory and generative AI, he explores how systems of feedback, simulation, and machine vision mediate our understanding of history and possibility. Through painting, film, and writing, he builds narratives that feel both ancient and yet-to-come, haunted by lost histories and animated by possible futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSIAHKAL 2.0: An A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism \u0026amp; Islam (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor(s): “Bizhan Jazani”, Parham Ghalamdar\u003cbr\u003eEditor \u0026amp; Translation: Parham Ghalamdar\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Parham Ghalamdar\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Parsa Esmaeilzadeh\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: October 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: (becoming)011A\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8207-7-1 (Print)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Perfect Bound\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 10.5cm x 14.8cm\u003cbr\u003ePages: 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations by Parham Ghalamdar \u0026amp; “Bizhan Jazani”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Parham Ghalamdar \u003cbr\u003e                                     \u0026amp; Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                                \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eGhalamdar, P. (2025) SIAHKAL 2.0: An A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism \u0026amp; Islam. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. 978-9925-8207-7-1.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54855342915918,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/SIAHKAL__FRONT_square_clay_3000x3000_56c85304-7286-4f2d-8b2b-4fcea1a02805.png?v=1770744604"},{"product_id":"siahkal-2-0-e-book","title":"SIAHKAL 2.0: An A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism \u0026 Islam (2025) by Parham Ghalamdar (Ed.) [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e*\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis item is non-refundable as the items cannot be returned once purchased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis is a limited edition book. The author trained an LLM on the texts of a deceased theorist, and then proceeded to interact with the LLM and produce simulations of what the theorist may have said in regards to various pertinent topics. The book is primarily a free online resource, but a few copies are being printed to commemorate the work. It has a foreword and afterword by the Editors. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the core of this project is a translation of “Marxist Islam or Islamic Marxism,” a groundbreaking text written by Bizhan Jazani during his imprisonment in the 1970s under the Shah’s oppressive regime. Translated by Parham Ghalamdar, this work is accompanied by an introduction contextualizing Jazani’s radical vision. Ghalamdar also contributes a series of ASCII-style illustrations and diagrams—AI-assisted reinterpretations of Jazani’s original paintings and photographs—that bridge the past and present, offering a new perspective on his revolutionary artistry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlurb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSiahkal names a place in the forests of Gilan and a threshold in revolutionary time. In 1971 a guerrilla action near Siahkal shook the order of the Shah. The action failed militarily yet seeded a myth for the People’s Fedai Guerrillas. Bizhan Jazani, a founding thinker, wrote and painted in prison and was executed in 1975. His work teaches that strategy rather than sentiment endures. \/\/ This book treats Siahkal as a Deep Object, a persistent attractor that gathers memory, images, and tactics. An AI model trained on Jazani’s writings and paintings translates his essay on Islamic Marxism and proposes annotations. The machine functions as a probe that widens attention while remaining accountable to the source. Parham Ghalamdar trained the AI, wrote the introduction, and composed ASCII diagrams and diagrammatic readings from Jazani’s artworks. Parsa Esmaeilzadeh contributes an essay that reads Jazani through Karatani and left accelerationism. \/\/ It is a call to reimagine and export revolution as a Deep Object that asks for Deep Time to unfold. This clandestine edition invites the reader to study, test, and build strategy that can outlast the news cycle and meet the future head on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParham Ghalamdar is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in the UK. Ghalamdar’s work traces forgotten mythologies, buried philosophies, and visual ruins, reconfiguring them into speculative worlds where memory, fiction, and futurism collapse into one another. Drawing on cybernetic theory and generative AI, he explores how systems of feedback, simulation, and machine vision mediate our understanding of history and possibility. Through painting, film, and writing, he builds narratives that feel both ancient and yet-to-come, haunted by lost histories and animated by possible futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSIAHKAL 2.0: An A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism \u0026amp; Islam (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor(s): “Bizhan Jazani”, Parham Ghalamdar\u003cbr\u003eEditor \u0026amp; Translation: Parham Ghalamdar\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Parham Ghalamdar\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Parsa Esmaeilzadeh\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: October 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 011A(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-647-02-6 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations by Parham Ghalamdar \u0026amp; “Bizhan Jazani”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Parham Ghalamdar \u003cbr\u003e                                     \u0026amp; Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                                \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo be cited as:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eGhalamdar, P. (2025) SIAHKAL 2.0: An A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism \u0026amp; Islam. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. ISBN: 978-9925-647-02-6.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55008019775822,"sku":"11A(ε)","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/SIAHKAL__FRONT_square_clay_3000x3000_56c85304-7286-4f2d-8b2b-4fcea1a02805.png?v=1770744604"},{"product_id":"unconscious-television-e-book","title":"Unconscious\/Television (2025) by Lucas Ferraço Nassif [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e*This item is non-refundable as the items cannot be returned once purchased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe Unconscious is Semiotic, not Linguistic, and it only jumps out when you read between the lines.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book stems from the author’s discontents with Lacanian Psychoanalysis, by drawing from psychoanalysts like Félix Guattari and Sándor Ferenczi, as well as authors like Viveiro DeCastro, and Thomas Lamarre, to whom the book is dedicated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Lucas Ferraço Nassif elaborates on the possibility of a multiplicitous Unconscious, or rather, a mass of many Unconscious(es), he attempts here to fold the book itself into the text, to make the organisation of the physical book itself a part of the elaboration.\u003cbr\u003e        This 2nd Edition comes with a few editorial changes, and a slightly different design approach. It is being presented now with a suite of endorsements from a group of exciting writers and researchers, including Persis Bekkering, Thomas Lamarre, and Yuchen Li. Much of the first edition is preserved, and an extra text has been added, written by the editor as a part of the lecture at Ifilnova. There has been a focus on making this book more accessible, so we have reworked the design of this edition in Black \u0026amp; White.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Unconscious is Semiotic, not Linguistic, and it only jumps out when you read between the lines. Do you remember, back in 1997, when 600 kids had epileptic shocks whilst watching Television—the Pokémon Shock? This might sound strange at first, but Lucas Ferraço Nassif theorises that, contrary to the claim that this was caused by oscillations of blue and red light alone, it could have been caused by microperceptions and intensities within narrative. As Porygon takes Ash and friends into the digital world, the immanence of unconscious assemblages drags viewers in, too.\u003cbr\u003e            Such is the haptic and imagetic nature of this book. Using several design and editorial strategies, and a particular mode of writing, the author attempts to elaborate on their work on the Unconscious by recreating a similar possibility—where book, language and reader collapse into a composition, an assemblage or a haecceity. Unconsciousness operate as the multiplanar compositions of Japanese Anime do, so this book has been organized accordingly—different texts, different temporalities, different voices—and like the Japanese concept of Ma (negative space), or even like CoreCore, something jumps out of the breaks, the gaps in between the layers, and therein lies, for this book, a departure point for elaborating on not just one, but many, Unconscious(es). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher in the ERC project FILM AND DEATH and an integrated member of CineLab - Laboratory of Cinema and Philosophy, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis. Director and editor of the films Reinforced Concrete, Being Boring, and Unfamiliar Ceiling\/The Beast; and author of the book Missing Links, published by Barakunan, and awarded by the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] in Portugal as the best monographic book of 2023. Lucas Ferraço Nassif's investigations happen between psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis, operating with the clinical approach to the unconscious that aims at the entanglement of art and the production of thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(The author was supported by the European Research Council Consolidator Grant FILM AND DEATH number 101088956). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelated works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"transcription-of-gazing-into-the-flames-of-anamorphosis-the-nothingness-of-open-secret,-unconscioustelevision,-and-corecore-by-palais-sinclaire-lucas-ferra%C3%A7o-nassif\" rel=\"history\"\u003eGazing into the Flames of Anamorphosis @ Casa do Comum\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"book-launch-unconscioustelevision-(2025)-@-linha-de-sombra\" rel=\"history\"\u003eBook Launch @ Linha de Sombra: \u003ci\u003eUnconscious\/Television\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"lettre-de-l'%C3%A9diteur-psychoanalyse,-film,-publication-by-0nty\" rel=\"history\"\u003eLettre de l'éditeur: Psychoanalyse, Film, Publication\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"transcrypt-the-becoming-of-unconscioustelevision-(2025)\" rel=\"history\"\u003eTrans-crypt: the Becomings of \u003ci\u003eUnconscious\/Television\u003c\/i\u003e (2025)\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"announcing-unconscioustelevision-(2025)\" rel=\"history\"\u003eAnnouncing: \u003ci\u003eUnconscious\/Television\u003c\/i\u003e (2025)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnconscious\/Television (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Lucas Ferraço Nassif\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEdit: \u003ci\u003e0nty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: December 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: (becoming)08B(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cimg 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alt=\"\"\u003e978-9925-647-08-8 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                               \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eNassif, L. F. (2025) Unconscious\/Television. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-9925-647-08-8.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEndorsements\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e“The new book of Lucas Ferraço Nassif about the Becomings of Unconscious Television will certainly be a fundamental reference for several fields of knowledge – from anime and media studies to literature, visual arts, psychoanalysis and even fashion. It is probably one of the most original and audacious narratives written in recent years. The organization was conceived in partnership with the editorial team, and the result is a dynamic game of metamorphoses between content and form, without the traditional dichotomies. During my reading, I thought about a book becoming a film (or anime), a visual narrative becoming gesture, and all these images becoming an internal musical composition. The dialogues with Thomas Lamarre, Sandor Ferenczi and, of course, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari reverberate in the flesh. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the first pages, Nassif quotes Isabel Ghirardi: “language is secretion”. I immediately thought about the butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi, who used to say: “expression is secretion”. Let’s keep this in mind during our reading. This will be a powerful strategy to make words, feelings and images flow through our bodies reinventing ourselves.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Christine Greiner\u003ci\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eChair of the Department of Art São Paolo Pontifical Catholic University\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is one of a kind: a beneficial bomb! Lucas Ferraço Nassif is not content with destroying a certain traditional brand of psychoanalitical criticism, he offers bright new vistas: updating Lacanian Theory to new \u003ci\u003emediaphilosophical\u003c\/i\u003e levels, infusing it with a pinch of deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis, following the logic of the dream, waves of productive chaos crushing against oedipal academy. The wonderful design of the book is not a gimmick: it’s a generous eye-candy that nourishes and backs up the book‘s conceptual force. They made a dream-team, and this fractal structure really invites readers to grow their own crystals at each and every point … a remarkable achievement!” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Bernd Herzogenrath, \u003cbr\u003eProfessor at Goethe University Frankfurt\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How to imagine a psychoanalysis that dethrones the symbolic order? Jacques Lacan, but make it process philosophy. Schizoanalysis, but make it multinaturalist. Theory blossomed during the heydays of television and this book somehow reads like an artefact from those bygone days, but written by someone plugged into a terminally online unconscious – an unconscious saturated with moving images (on the small screen), not written like a language. I have to be real: Unconscious\/Television puzzled me. I don't know if it is intended to be understood on the level of meaning or content. It is composed to be experienced. Words behaving like animated images, written in a metonymic chain of jump cuts. That makes Lucas Ferraço Nassif's work really exciting, and proves Becoming Press once more as the most forward thinking publisher of today.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Persis Bekkering, \u003cbr\u003eWriter\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnconscious\/Television\u003c\/i\u003e is as tenacious as it is audacious in its bid to trace the electric torsions of anime.  Lucas Ferraço Nassif provides a series of brilliant demonstrations, remonstrations, and ultimately monstrations that what is (temporarily) excluded from attention is the very event, the whole show, the stuff of television.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Thomas Lamarre, \u003cbr\u003eProfessor at University of Chicago\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr Lucas Ferraço Nassif’s writing confronts psychoanalysis’ weakness in understanding the Real. In facing the TV images, Dr Lucas Ferraço Nassif does not repeat psychoanalysis’ compulsion to know everything, rather, he finds a position of dwelling between the known and the unknown – staying true to the enigmas and writing about them without the symbolic’s colonization. This is exactly how we want to get in touch with the Real – not only can we have a close reading of late Lacan and Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis, but we relive it, dream within it, and get lost in it through the texts, which are mapped out resembling the maze-like unconscious. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Yuchen Li, \u003cbr\u003ePsychoanalyst and Researcher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eUnconscious\/Television reads as if it were carved directly into matter: on skin, on stone, and on the screen itself, piercing its surface. This is an image that Lucas Ferraço retrieves from Thomas Lamarre: in anime, perspective perforates the flat screen. Unlike a long-standing tradition that frames images as dreams, hallucinations, or mental projections—from Münsterberg to Schéfer, from Metz to Mitry—ethereal and ghostly realities, here images have weight; they contaminate, poison; television occupies a physical space, displacing bodies, reshaping the landscape, and making us ill. The act of reading it is also experienced with discomfort. One must allow oneself to be torn apart by the book—and the book, too, is torn, fragmented, reordered; at times the text is missing as air is missing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— David Ferragut, \u003cbr\u003eResearcher\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Lucas Ferraço Nassif’s written gestures carry forces that fold upon themselves, producing something unlike anything seen before. Something begins to vibrate here — a connection with the multiplicity of cinemas, anime, psychoanalysis, and schizoanalysis. This book is composed of zones of proximity, of productive alliances for a war machine. A basic lesson of this text is to look toward the minor, to play with the becomings of the unconscious; it is a text for new allies, far from established chapels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Anderson Santos,\u003cbr\u003ePsychoanalyst and Researcher\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55008055886158,"sku":"8B(ε)","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/Unconscious_Television__2nd_Edition_square_clay_3000x3000_9041ec36-1147-4174-8456-0b7cdce6ac4b.png?v=1771861492"},{"product_id":"where-does-a-body-begin-e-book","title":"Where Does A Body Begin? (2025) by Meltdown Your Books [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e*This item is non-refundable as the items cannot be returned once purchased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eIn this book, we don’t \u003cem\u003edo\u003c\/em\u003e biology, or fund it, or research it, or practice it; in this book, we \u003cem\u003eare\u003c\/em\u003e biology.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile presented as a contiguous work, the book is formed of different essays that have been dissected, recomposed with artificial connective tissue. The result lies somewhere between the rhizomatic continuity of a Body-without-Organs, and the disjointed assemblage of roadkill; either way, the question of where to even begin remains the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese essays each grow out of a particular resentment that developed through years of experience as a working-student of biology, but the task of the book was to transform this into something productive, something that sticks granular propositions into Biology like acupuncture needles. Inherent sexism within Biological research is, after all, not entirely disconnected to Pharmaceutical giants flooding the streets with opiates—and it is simply a writer’s hope that some well positioned words can remind enough people of how its all connected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn what could be perceived as a philosophical turn, the importance of talking about science, as much as doing it, is re-entering the popular scientific consciousness, and it is high time, too. What was already getting bad under Biden, became catastrophic under Trump, and the infiltration into public research by private institutions and capitalist enterprises, which this book highlights, is proving dire. The capitalisation of all things bio, whether -yoghurt, -metric data or -logical institutions, is necrotic—MeltdownYourBooks didn’t flinch, they just grabbed the scalpel, dowsed the flesh in ethanol, and asked the question we all forget needs answering: where first, Doc?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhere Does a Body Begin? Biology’s function in contemporary capitalism (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: \u003cem\u003eMeltdown Your Books\u003c\/em\u003e (M.Y.B.)\u003cbr\u003eEditor: Nicholas E. Powers\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 3\u003csup\u003erd\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: November 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 03C(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-647-02-6 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations by Rachel Lilim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesign by Becoming \u003cbr\u003e                        (Claire Elise \u0026amp; \u003cbr\u003e                        Polymnia)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeltdown Your Books (M.Y.B.), the pen name, was made as a portmanteau of the seminal essay Meltdown by Nick Land, and the landmark film Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets by Shuji Terayama. I chose the name, almost 3 years ago now, to reflect the political and digital black hole I saw hovering at the edge of contemporary media experience, and to present my work without the muddy veneer of personal identity. It has remained, since its inception, an anonymous project in only the loosest terms. The dedicated could always find my real identity, and some have, and so its anonymous character existed primarily as an element of presentation. Its anonymity existed to emphasize its deindividuated character. The things I discuss and emphasize under the M.Y.B. label are not items with definitive characteristics, they are collective experiences. M.Y.B. is something I cherish beyond self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo be cited as:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeltdown Your Books\u003c\/em\u003e (2025) Where Does A Body Begin? Biology's function in contemporary capitalism. Third Edition. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming Press. ISBN: 978-9925-647-02-6.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55008064831822,"sku":"3C(ε)","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/Wheredoesabodybegin_FRONT_square_clay_3000x3000_5e9e7f41-70f5-4efb-bf63-4f188d76f847.png?v=1760737669"},{"product_id":"multiplication-of-organs-manifesto-e-book","title":"Multiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Technology, Identity, Desire (2025) by Christian Nirvana Damato [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e*This item is non-refundable as the items cannot be returned once purchased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMultiplication of Organs Manifesto is an essay that delves into the transformations of sociality and sexuality in the context of digital technologies. Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends philosophy, erotic literature, media theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, and neuroscience, the text explores how devices, platforms, and technologies shape and produce normative systems that influence our perceptions, desires, and relationships with others. By examining the interplay between desire and digital mediation and drawing comparisons with authors such as Deleuze, Ballard, Žižek, Butler, Preciado, Bataille, and others, this book aims to present a new theoretical, critical, and philosophical perspective in the contemporary discourse on the relationship between humans, technology, and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book begins with an analysis of three iconic erotic texts from Masoch, Ballard and Bataille, and uses this analysis as the departure point for its main theoretical work on the four topics listed in the subtitle. The book passes through a lot of interesting phases, including an analysis of Phenomenology and Gucci, class struggle and OnlyFans and much more, until eventually arriving at the actual manifesto for Organ Multiplication and the beautifully named notion of the “Caged Sun”. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wearable technologies in the field of digisexuality—teledildonics, smart condoms, and brain-computer interfaces—increasingly affect contemporary subjects in all aspects of life: measurement, gamification, control, and prediction of performance, emotions, and time. All these innovations reprogram how we “construct” desire, which Damato redefines as statistical desire—that is, a form of desire founded on quantification, gamification, predictability, and actions we intend to perform. At a more general level, Damato shows how digisexuality is rooted in the widespread unease with contact, with bodily proxemics: the discomfort with our own skin, aversion to being touched and to touching, resulting in contact avoidance. As sensorial experience is increasingly replaced by techno-semiotic exchange, perception is reconfigured; desire itself, through the hyper-semiotization of experience, is also transformed. This shift to digisexuality changes our very perception of reality. “Physical reality exists, but it is less and less the primary object of significant investment, and also of desiring investment—a cumbersome residue that we do not know what to do with.” The body is thus “no longer essential for communication,” increasingly “an embarrassing surplus in communication, a mass that we would be pleased to get rid of.” Damato's analysis focuses on the moment when this shift occurs (and is already underway): when our body is no longer “what we are,” where our self is located, but instead is experienced as something external—so that we become more “ourselves” in digital space than in our physical bodies.” — Slavoj Žižek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristian Nirvana Damato is a philosopher, writer, and curator. He is the founder of Inactual, a research, editorial, and curatorial space dedicated to visual studies, contemporary art, and new technologies. He has published \u003cem\u003eMultiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Identity, Technology, Desire\u003c\/em\u003e (Becoming Press, 2025) and \u003cem\u003eDigisexuality\u003c\/em\u003e (Everyday Analysis, 2025). He also edited \u003cem\u003eMedial Disorders: Interpretive and Non-Statistical Compendium of Technological Disorders, Vol. I \u0026amp; II\u003c\/em\u003e (Inactual, 2024–2025), and \u003cem\u003eArtificiofilia\u003c\/em\u003e (Inactual, 2026).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMultiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Technology, Identity, Desire (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Christian Nirvana Damato\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Vincenzo Estremo\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: June 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 09A(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8207-1-9 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations by Angeriki Koutsodimitropoulou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                                \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDamato, C. N. (2025) Multiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Technology, Identity, Desire. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. 978-9925-8207-1-9.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003ePeer reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“One may think that the history of the human culture is going to be enormously impoverished by the disappearance of the body, one may think that, on the contrary, human culture has been enriched by the renounce to presence and physical contact. It is not the intention of Damato to save this dilemma, His intention is rather to open a new field of investigation, and possibly to start a reflection on a more advanced dilemma: will the change of perception make possible the emergence of a new ontology, or is the disappearance of the body going to mark the final dissolution of human life itself?” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Franco 'Bifo' Berardi\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedia bombard us with speculations about how artificial intelligence will affect our lives, asserting itself as an alien power. Instead of merely extending our bodily organs and technological machines to serve us—making our lives less stressful and more satisfying—it will effectively regulate and dominate even our innermost feelings and desires. Surprisingly, although we believe we live in an era of sexual permissiveness, there are far fewer texts on the “transformations of sociality and sexuality in relation to digital technology,” i.e., on “the ways in which devices and platforms influence and produce normative systems capable of changing the way we perceive, desire, and relate to others”. Christian Damato’s \u003ci\u003eMultiplication of Organs—Body, Technology, Identity, Desire\u003c\/i\u003e addresses precisely this topic in all its dimensions, from fascinating analyses of wearable technologies to broader implications of digisexuality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Slavoj Žižek\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55008066961742,"sku":"9A(ε)","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/Multiplication_of_Organs__FRONT_square_clay_3000x3000_127d7a8a-e637-4945-875f-4e6fa39ca90f.png?v=1760722698"},{"product_id":"exocapitalism-e-book","title":"Exocapitalism: Economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks \u0026 Roberto Alonso Trillo [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e*This item is non-refundable as the items cannot be returned once purchased.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eThis book is provocative because it is the proverbial elephant in the system, but it is nonetheless rigorous, and written in good spirit—this isn’t a downer, this is cleaning up after a bender, after a 500-year drug-accelerated romance with a creature that counts its age in millennia. So what is left in this wasteland? Well, Arbitrage for one; other monumental processes like Lifting, Holding, Dragging and Folding roam around above our heads.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a touch of destiny with this one. We have really pushed it as far as we can, and as we stay up all night trying to put the final touches on everything, the reverberations are starting to return. It’s been called, provocative, emancipatory, cutting-edge, and even, in some places, a bit caustic. Perhaps it is provocative because it begins to depart from Marxism as-we-know-it, and, with all the relevant necessary reverences applied, it attempts, dare I say, to step forward from the discourse of labour \u0026amp; production—not that what follows is somehow simpler, because it’s not. Yet as the authors contend, the world has already moved on, and capital, that same old capital, continues to do what it has always done, at myriad different scales, and in myriad worlds. Capital may well have already broken free of us, and so where exactly does that leave you, homocapitalus?\u003cbr\u003e            It would be in-keeping with the style of Charles Mudede to raise the question of whether we are on the cusp of a second ejection from Eden, and that means that whether we are ready or not, we have to step through the looking glass into a new conversation. That is what the authors wish to do here, to push the conversation to a new position, a position which understands DoorDash drivers, MMORPG gold farmers, and remote workers, accounts for AWS architecture, for memecoins and blockchain, for BlackRock, for the Internet (but for reals this time), for High-Frequency Trading and the LinkedIn economy, for Scale, for Airplane Miles and Club card points, and for ADHD \u0026amp; Adderall.\u003cbr\u003e        These two researchers have an enormous insight into contemporary economics, technology and finance, and yet they write as musicians, as the poetic theorists of antiquity, which, for us, makes this text epic. With Charles Mudede and Alex Quicho holding Exocapitalism down, it looks as though Marek Poliks \u0026amp; Roberto Alonso Trillo are here to stay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the authors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarek Poliks is a researcher in the philosophy of technology, especially with respect to deep learning. He’s based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marek and his primary research partner Roberto Alonso Trillo (HKBU) have been working to situate deep learning tools as endosymbiotic reproductive infrastructure (inorganic vehicles through which biological, epistemological, and social information is encoded, subject to contingent processes, and transmitted).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoberto Alonso Trillo is a theorist and artist whose work spans cultural theory, media philosophy, and experimental sound. Based in Hong Kong, his research engages the aesthetic and political dimensions of machine learning, with particular attention to infrastructural critique and performativity. In ongoing collaboration with Marek Poliks, he investigates AI theory and speculative design as part of a broader inquiry into automation and cultural production. His interdisciplinary practice extends into sound art, post-instrumental music, and critical pedagogy.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor(s): Marek Poliks \u0026amp; Roberto Alonso Trillo\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Charles Mudede\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Alex Quicho\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: August 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 010A(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8156-9-2 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations by Avocado Ibuprofen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                                \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePoliks, M., Trillo, R.A.(2025) Exocapitalism: Economies with absolutely no limits. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. 978-9925-8156-9-2.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeer reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExocapitalism\u003c\/i\u003e offers an alternative to Nick Land that is desperately needed—not because it is more sober (it isn't), but because it is \u003ci\u003eless horny.\u003c\/i\u003e The sexy AI alien of technocapital is revealed to be nothing more than a Rule 34 drawing of slime mold, or perhaps a kind of yeast, that meek inheritor of the Earth leaving all of humanity behind.\" — New Models (Lil Internet \u0026amp; Caroline Busta)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The \u003ci\u003ehuman-within-human \u003c\/i\u003ecould be framed as the psychotic, because they are precisely the one who lives outside of reality, because of the foreclosure of the Other and so forth. Normally, when we are talking about \u003ci\u003ethe human\u003c\/i\u003e, we are talking about \u003ci\u003eneurotic subjectivity\u003c\/i\u003e, which comes through repression, which is simply a way to manage the unbearable real, and so the psychotic is someone who tries to endure this unbearable real on their own. Through science we are reminded that the real, without mediation, can be endured; we do not need extra structures for the real to be \u003ci\u003econsistent\u003c\/i\u003e. Through the psychotic, we can prove that existence without this external mediation is possible. Exocapitalism works to confirm this on the economical, computational and the transcendental level, as the first theory of how unconstrained capitalism can be \u003ci\u003econsistent\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e – Maks Valenčič\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You will never look at Salesforce the same way... It is one thing to realize that one is a serf for a techno-feudalist master; it is another thing to realize that one is a vavasour to a piece of digital land that is no longer planar but scalar, dragged only in order to be lifted once again. There is no masterdom at the scale of capital: only an algorithm all unto itself.” — Alessandro Sbordoni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is not an argument for a new phase of capitalism, but rather a cosmological, retroactive take on the continuity of capital as an inhuman algorithm modelled on finance and software rather than factory and labor, manifesting in the contemporary topology of the spongy and blob-like digital business formations—this is bound to be controversial, but it is worth contending with. So love it or hate it, \u003ci\u003eExocapitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is original, enlightening and infuriating: a book to be reckoned with.” — Tziana Terranova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Not even a thing, capitalism is mutable; it is only its mutants. It's whatever x-capitalism works right now. So let x = neoliberal \/ racial \/ industrial \/ platform \/ autocratic \/ financial \/ green \/ techno \/ bio \/ etc. as you prefer — even, now, on its way to the another yet-more-whacked variant, let x=X too. Concatenated, meshed without term or unity, capitalism is only beside itself: an exocapitalism, as Marek Poliks \u0026amp; Roberto Alonso Trillo succinctly call it. \u003cbr\u003e        Sure, human labour has been a pit-stop in this prolific adaptation but, as Poliks and Trillo contend, that's only a domestication of exocapitalism, handy for a little moment in its history—and of course for the self-regard of its benighted (and, honestly, now tired) critics. Detached from this stabilising narcissism, Exocapitalism does us the immense favour of staying true to its anti-object: thematically promiscuous, scale agnostic, attentive to its n-tupled deleteriousness, Poliks and Trillo advance a latency theory of accumulation by which, as they put it, capitalism gets to be done on anything. \u003cbr\u003e       You won't get an easy out—you already have the dignity of human labour for that—but you will get to see some shapes of what mutability looks like when it's optimised for accumulation by ubiquitous volatilisation.” — Suhail Malik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From the chain of signifiers—platform extractivism, green deal, crypto, and techno-feudalism—there is no exit, but exo-; your cosmo-finance model for the precarious. Once capital lost its fixed references, new speculative worlds open up, each with their own logic. There may be infinite complexity, yet, in the current geo-political whirlwind it all comes down to a reduction of flows into a simple economic model, and Poliks \u0026amp; Trillo navigate this abstraction ladder in an elegant way. Revolving around software and data-centres, capitalism is a germ which produces worlds.\" — Geert Lovink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece... Nick Land for adults.” — \u003ci\u003e0nty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55008068174158,"sku":"10A(ε)","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/Exocapitalism_FRONT_square_clay_3000x3000_1a8b990b-914f-4fbd-91e3-20e8415c9fdf.png?v=1760722046"},{"product_id":"empires-over-skin-books-e-book","title":"Empires Over Skin: How We Fashioned Our World (2025) by Meltdown Your Books [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeltdown Your Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the author of \u003ci\u003eWhere Does A Body Begin?\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), returns to Becoming Press for their second book, focusing not, this time, on the body itself, but what comes next. Whether in the sense of Dress, Clothing or Fashion, there is not much beyond the body itself that better signifies humanity than the act of adorning a body with garments, because we have no fur, or because of social codes, whether religious or class-oriented, because of beauty, or because of industrial capital; because, because, because. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“The mounds of clothing that adorn my floor and the foot of my bed sometimes grow too large, and suddenly I am sinking into the matted mess of fabrics. On days like these I can’t help but feel that clothing, not just my clothing, but the very idea of clothing, is swallowing me up. Clothing is this immensity looming over me, yet somehow a microscopic itch in my brain, prodding me and twisting itself into knots–an irritation I accept for the temporary bliss of scratching it.”\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo be human is to wake up, every morning, and to don the costume that completes your identity, for better or worse, by choice or by coercion.\u003cbr\u003e        The task this book undertakes requires a particular kind of author, one who can recognise and sort through the contradictions on a theoretical level, but also someone who does not abstract the topic from their position as a subject—a critical book of fashion must be written by someone who lives it, someone who is passionate enough to write in good faith, because fashion isn’t just Gucci and Sweatshops—which themselves are rightly condemned for all kinds of reasons—because fashion itself is merely the tip of what may be one of the biggest, deepest ice bergs of all—Fashion is a philosophical black hole, one which drags everything into its infinite stomach, from semiotics to psychoanalysis, to art, design and craftsmanship, to economics and production chains, to speculation and historicising, to algebra, journalism and so on.\u003cbr\u003e        Yet, this isn’t a philosophy book because it is simply too down-to-earth and relatable. This book is just as much celebratory and excited as it is critical. M.Y.B. begins by simply looking down, and beginning to describe the shoes upon their feet—it unravels dialectically and uncovers long chains of connections that stretch back through time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeltdown Your Books (M.Y.B.), the pen name, was made as a portmanteau of the seminal essay Meltdown by Nick Land, and the landmark film Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets by Shuji Terayama. I chose the name, almost 3 years ago now, to reflect the political and digital black hole I saw hovering at the edge of contemporary media experience, and to present my work without the muddy veneer of personal identity. It has remained, since its inception, an anonymous project in only the loosest terms. The dedicated could always find my real identity, and some have, and so its anonymous character existed primarily as an element of presentation. Its anonymity existed to emphasize its deindividuated character. The things I discuss and emphasize under the M.Y.B. label are not items with definitive characteristics, they are collective experiences. M.Y.B. is something I cherish beyond self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmpires Over Skin: How we Fashioned our World (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: \u003ci\u003eMeltdown Your Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor: Nicholas E. Powers\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: November 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 012A(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-647-23-1 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations by Rachel Lilim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                                \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eTo be cited as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeltdown Your Books\u003c\/i\u003e (2025) Empires Over Skin: How we Fashioned our World. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. ISBN: 978-9925-647-23-1.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55008069747022,"sku":"12A(ε)","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/Empires_Over_Skin__1st_Edition_square_clay_3000x3000_91c5503a-8d7a-40a0-b95e-ffa25ca54843.png?v=1771861451"},{"product_id":"semiotics-of-the-end-e-book","title":"Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism and the Apocalypse (2025) by Alessandro Sbordoni [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e*This item is non-refundable as the items cannot be returned once purchased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e“To quote Alessandro Sbordoni: ‘as the end gets nearer, more is yet to come'. So maybe we already live (in) the end of the world, an end which stretches on endlessly, with no possible resolution.\" — Slavoj Žižek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn place of locusts, plagues and horse riders, the end appears to us as rising sea-levels, nuclear war, or A.I. uprisings. While this impending doom ought to frighten us more, it has become blasé, even comedic, for capital has captured our teleological imaginations, and has sold our demise right back to us; as we suspend our belief in its existence, our entire relationship with the future has changed. \u003cbr\u003e        Yet, where Mark Fisher’s cancellation of the future leaves us feeling helpless, the work of Alessandro Sbordoni attempts to reverse this hauntological approach through a restoration of the potenza of the future as a nothingness that nonetheless haunts us; feedback from the future guides the present. If there is an end, it is also a beginning, which means the future is still up for grabs. \u003cbr\u003e        This book contains thirteen essays reflecting on capital’s relationship with its own end, from cultural analyses of Britney Spears, Donnie Darko or the Internet’s Backrooms, to strategic theories that frame culture as a series of weapons to be used to subvert and change the cultural hegemony of our time, and ward off the ghosts of the past.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving been originally published, in its first edition, by Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, Becoming Press has prepared, at the author’s request, a second edition of this work, which includes an afterwork written by Matt Bluemink, to whom we attribute the term “anti-hauntology”. This is still the second edition of the book, but a new version of it which mainly involved a redesign of the book to be in line with Becoming's 2025 style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlessandro Sbordoni was born in Cagliari in 1995. He is the author of The Shadow of Being: Symbolic \/ Diabolic (2nd edition, Miskatonic Virtual University Press, 2023). He is an editor of the British magazine Blue Labyrinths and the Italian magazine Charta Sporca. He works for the Open Access publisher Frontiers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelated material\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NhlAyC_7OWg\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSEMIÓTICA DO FIM – Capitalismo e apocalipse com Leonardo Foletto e Alessandro Sbordoni\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=90j87mA1CXY\u0026amp;list=PLGn8Wjmb0up1q2-aGo-JUalASPSq1yHi7\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"Semiotics of the End\" by Alessandro Sbordoni with Geert Lovink @ Expanded Publishing Fest\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8c9LwmbDhIo\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAnti-Hauntology and Semiotics of the End\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eSemiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism \u0026amp; the Apocalypse (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Alessandro Sbordoni\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Matt Bluemink\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 2\u003csup\u003end (v2)\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: September 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 06B(2)(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8118-7-8 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                               \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSbordoni, A.\u003c\/i\u003e (2025) Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism and the Apocalypse. 2nd Edition. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-9925-8118-7-8.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55008070369614,"sku":"6B(2)(ε)","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/Semiotics_of_the_End__2nd_Edition_2nd_Version_square_clay_3000x3000_8ef2c394-6ff0-461f-aea6-c9e725a17ae1.png?v=1770744407"},{"product_id":"christian-eschatology-of-artificial-intelligence-e-book","title":"Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh (2024) by Giorgi Vachnadze [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e*This item is non-refundable as the items cannot be returned once purchased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eOur Algorithm, who art in AWS servers; lead us not into clickbait, and deliver us from Targeted Ads, for the Platform Economy, the Investment Capital, and the Surplus are yours—now and forever. Amen.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo write in Georgia is to write between two superpowers, the West and Russia; the only way to create space for oneself is to pit these powers against each other. In a way, a writer writing in Georgia is also caught between the hegemonies of Corporate-AI Neoliberalism and Orthodox Christianity. Set in motion by a punk, reactionary impulse, Giorgi Vachnadze pits these two overbearing symbolics against each other; what falls out when two discourses are concatenated against each other: a new signifier? An object a? A mathematical remainder?\u003cbr\u003e        On a certain epistemic level, pitting AI against Christianity is a sublimation of pitting Capital against itself, an intensification of Capital that seeks to push it towards collapse; the author has thus built a discourse accelerator. This is a hysterical book, where two negatives are brought together and then fed through a positivistic, double-meat-grinder of Foucault and Wittgenstein, and what remained, so to speak, was almost unreasonably interesting. It is not just one thing that falls out of this dialectic, but dozens; the collision brings to the surface a great deal of interesting subject matter, from the sociology of calculation, to the semiotics of the Flesh, to encratic regimes of self-governance, colonialism and sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e        Whether read as a strategic move or a rant, the book is very entertaining in its shifting around from detailed studies of Alan Turing’s philosophical work, to close readings of Biblical scripture—the selection of these two signifiers, AI \u0026amp; Christianity, wasn’t, after all, just an isolated grievance, but a neurotic symptom atop a deeply rooted contradiction playing out within the subjectivity of the author—so while it is, in a way, an auto-psychoanalytical production, it might as well be any of us in the chair, right?    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a hysterical book, in the sense that it is the author’s own psychoanalysis made out of theory. Lacan is going to say that you should hystericize in analysis, analysis must exist in hysteria” — Lucas Ferraço Nassif\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis version is identical to the first, but the typography has been updated to the 2025 style. It has been printed using different materials, improving the overall quality of the book. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiorgi Vachnadze is a Foucault and Wittgenstein scholar. He completed his Bachelor studies at New Mexico State University and received a Master’s qualification in philosophy at the University of Louvain. Former editor and peer-reviewer for the Graduate Student Journal of philosophy “The Apricot”, he has been published in multiple popular and academic journals world-wide. Vachnadze’s research focuses on philosophy of language and discourse analysis. Some of the questions and themes addressed in his work include: History of Combat Sports, Ancient Stoicism, Genealogies of Truth, Histories of Formal Systems, Genealogy of Science, Ethics in AI and Psychoanalysis, Media Archaeology, Game Studies and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelated material\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vpMI02Yee3k\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBook discussion with Giorgi Vachnadze, Lucas Ferraço Nassif and Palais Sinclaire\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh (2024)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Giorgi Vachnadze\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: October 2024\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 07A(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8118-8-5 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                              \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be cited as: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVachnadze, G. (2024) Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-9925-8118-8-5.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55008071614798,"sku":"7A(ε)","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/Christian_Eschatology__FRONT_square_clay_3000x3000_21197be8-03bd-44d9-80aa-aaf33a177552.png?v=1760739021"},{"product_id":"in-the-delirium-of-the-simulation-e-book","title":"In the Delirium of the Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited (2025) by Achim Szepanski [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e*This item is non-refundable as the items cannot be returned once purchased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFrom Finance to non-philosophy and radical experimental music, Szepanski is an anomalous and masterful theoretician with one hell of a history.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a monumental and extensive work from someone who is arguably the most well-versed scholar of Baudrillard, Deleuze \u0026amp; Laruelle in the German-speaking world, Achim Szepanski, the original founder of Mille Plateaux, Force Inc Music Works and NON. This book is dedicated to Jean Baudrillard, who would be described by Achim as the most radical and advanced stimmung in Philosophy. Through this comprehensive and devouring analysis of Baudrillard’s work, the author presents a gripping account of their own philosophy; alongside his magnum opus Die Ekstasie der Spekulation, this book, In the Delirium of the Simulation, provides the strongest case for what might be called, in light of his passing, Szepanskism or Szepanskian Economics.\u003cbr\u003e        As time passed since the loss of our friend, Achim Szepanski, we found ourselves revisiting this book, and we invested time in refining some parts of certain texts, and looking at the translations again. We decided to include three other texts which elaborate in various directions, and we organized a new afterword by Alessandro Sbordoni, which asks what a Szepanskism might be. Lastly, it felt appropriate to draw up a foreword, which helps position the book within a broader context, as well as paying respects to the author's life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSzepanski was a force of his own, he was a stomach full of caustic acid within which the entire canon of Marxism, classical, post and adjacent, has been dissolved. His education was in Finance, yet his legacy was in Music, once a prominent record store autist in Frankfurt, he changed the world of music as we know it through his many projects, of which Mille Plateaux and Force Inc Music Works were the most renowned. Mixing Baudrillard with Finance, and Music with Non-Philosophy, he forged an entirely unique and fascinating position on Marxism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the Delirium of the Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited (2024)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Achim Szepanski\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Alessandro Sbordoni\u003cbr\u003eEditor: Claire Elise Herzberg\u003cbr\u003eTranslations: Achim Szepanski, Claire Elise Herzberg, \u003cbr\u003eEdition: 3\u003csup\u003erd\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: April 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 04C(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8156-6-1 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures several appendices from the author, including a new translation of \u003ci\u003eTaylor Swift Does Not Exist\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                                \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eSzepanski, A. (2025) In the Delirium of the Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming\/NON. ISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-9925-8156-6-1.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55008072139086,"sku":"4C(ε)","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/IntheDeliriumoftheSimulation_FRONT_square_clay_3000x3000_f783ff97-be95-49d4-a3ee-a4424215af88.png?v=1760728223"},{"product_id":"technically-man-dwells-upon-this-earth-ebook","title":"Technically Man Dwells upon this Earth (2023) by Ulysse Carrière [eBook]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e*This item is non-refundable as the items cannot be returned once purchased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWelcome to the age of differential henology.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eThis text leaves us with a clearing of the conceptual ground for thinking of the Intellect as unbounded production (as you are about to see unfold). This setting is able to provide a meaning to acceleration as the relinquishment of identity to itself. All that can be automated, must be, for it already is; real acceleration derives from the potentiality to realize that which one already eels is at work in the now, the \u003ci\u003ewirklich\u003c\/i\u003e working its way to the real. The tedious bone-crushing wheels of history will never stop turning, not until they have turned the world itself into a purposeless engine, at which point there will be no calculation left to execute anyway. The logic of extinction here reveals itself as the condition for anarchic creation to operate, as its unilateral counterpart. Instead of giving ourselves to erotics or, Gods forbid, aesthetics as a replacement for thought, there remains only the immanent necessity of understanding Thinking as a thinking of the Beautiful. — Louise Morelle, Foreword\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe book where it all began. There would be no Becoming Press without Technically Man Dwells, a book authored by someone who even to today has captured the hearts of a lot of the people who follow Becoming’s activities; a deep appreciation for the intelligence of this author is something that the group shares in common. This book is excellent; a very elegant prose that gives an incredibly sophisticated deconstruction and response, to, Artificial Intelligence, and the question of A.I art. The time of \u003ci\u003eArt\u003c\/i\u003e has come; \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c\/i\u003e the time of the \u003ci\u003eArtist\u003c\/i\u003e is over!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is unlikely that this book will be reprinted. Introduced with grace by Louis Morelle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTechnically Man Dwells upon this Earth (2023)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Ulysse Carrière\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Louise Morelle\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est (v2)\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: October 2024\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 01A(2)(ε)\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-9925-8118-1-6 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eDesign by Becoming \u003cbr\u003e                        (Claire Elise \u0026amp; \u003cbr\u003e                        Polymnia)\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo be cited as: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Carrière, U. (2024) Technically Man Dwells upon this Earth. 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Taking its name from the -corification of aesthetics in the Tumblr-era (fairycore, cottagecore), CoreCore usually involves, as Louis Morelle writes in the book, images concatenated against each other. Lucas Ferraço Nassif theorized that, like the Japanese concept of Ma, something jumps out from the gaps in-between images: \"CoreCore is two words, but its the same word, and there is a mirror-stage between the two cores: who is going to confirm what the core is?\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together artists and theorists who were either part of the movement, or fans of the movement, close to it, and so on, to create an anthology which explores the movement on its own terms, and ensures that no academic can ever discuss CoreCore without citing this book, and thus ensuring the underground their place in the discussion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cu\u003eFeaturing\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e0nty • Dylan Smith (OnMyComputer) • John-Robin Bold • Bebe_Crotte • Societyiftextwall • Aemmonia • Emonie Fay Chetwin (Xleepyfay) • Alice Aster • Anastasija Pavić • Anastasiia Pishchanska (shelestvetrovki) • Ash Ingram • ChaoticRhizomatic • Crisis Acting • Dana Dawud • Daniel Neeman • Edson Javier Rogil • Hunter Thompson • Joe Iovino (Levels of Nuance) • John DeSousa • John Michael • Jomel • Liam Harding (X._.pulp) • Louis Higgins - Louis Morelle • Maria Puglisi • Mason Noel • Mischa Dols • i0 xen0 • Nicholas Sanchez (Wonderful Cringe) • Nick Vyssotsky • Nikolaos Sakkadakis • Orion Arnold • Persis Bekkering • Redacted Cut • Reed McDonaldson • Rokas Vaičiulis • Rozzlyn Agnes K • Soham Adhikari • Uba • Zoey Solomon • Machine Yearning • Jordi Viader Guerrero • Tommaso Campagna • Kali Masoch \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eDialogues on CoreCore \u0026amp; the Contemporary Online Avant-Garde (2024)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor(s): \u003ci\u003eOnty, Morelle, L., Dawud, D.,\u003c\/i\u003e et al.\u003cbr\u003eEditor(s): \u003ci\u003eOnty (Eds.)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOnMyComputer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: April 2024\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: 05A(ε)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8118-1-6 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eContains over 140 artistic contributions\u003cbr\u003eDesign by \u003ci\u003eOnty\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e0nty, \u0026amp; OnMyComputer \u003c\/i\u003e(Eds.) 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We tell the story of a radio show that bridged our project Crossdressing Diogenes with our latest project, Becoming. In telling the story of how we arrived here at all, we have a chance to index all of the fields and domains that Becoming has entered into so far, and begins to maniacally draw lines through many subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIn telling the story of how a radio show hosted by a record label lead to a publishing practice in such a way, we have a chance to begin explicating our take on the changing winds in those most dirty of social sciences and biology. For thousands of years, the West has held music as a matter of pure rationale, something purely of the intellect, but when the body is just an ear itself, and when one might say we are all, at once, being-in-music (or becoming-as-music), how we think about music has to change dramatically, how we speak music or speak about music has to change – music must be able to become something radically \"unmusical\", to cast off the Image-of-itself that it, like and as philosophy, has become; we must once again pursue a non-music fit for a non-sociology; or better, we must approach a quantum musical social ontology. This book is our first attempt to write towards a theory of a Musica Universalis of the social, the noise (harmony) of the social sphere(s).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNaturally, given the context of the project, we wanted to launch this book alongside a revamped version of our radio show, beginning today on Lumbung Radio at 9am (the live show is aimed at insomniacs who refuse to sleep so that capital may never dream), but the shows are immediately archived for everyone else to access.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCERPTS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the most interesting ideas for us at Becoming is the concept of Quantum Foam, a sort of porous membrane underneath everything, sometimes imagined as a surface of densely packed bubbles on an infinite pool of liquid, but also sometimes romantically imagined as a complex mycelium anchoring the actual into the virtual (Ford \u0026amp; Wheeler, 2000: 522). This Quantum Foam is virtually unknowable to us, and its existence suggests that below the threshold of our perception exists a dynamic, bubbling pool, and everything we can know and understand bubbles out of that pool, rising up like waves on turbulent waters. As waves rise out of the water, they pass across the threshold of what is knowable to us, and appear to jump into existence as some solitary event, some self-contained particle jumping in and out of existence.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— \u003ci\u003eChapter I: Impulses-becoming-traces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “While the speaker cone moves in and out by a matter of millimeters, the air around your ears is fully in flux, shifting around your ears in large extrapolated analogies of the original signal. The signal propagates through the air as the machinery forces the air to move in a way that is analogical to the original code. The particles that make up the air move closer together and further apart, in waves; it is a matter of compression and rarefaction. This is how the original impulse is encoded into the air, as the way particles move can be controlled. The ear captures the encoded air like the backboard of a basketball hoop, the air falls down the ear hole into a new series of conversion machines. These controlled patterns of motion enter the ear, and are captured by the ear drum, a tiny filament that moves back and forth in a way that is analogous with the motion of the air, almost as if imitating the way the speaker cone dances. The speaker cone, the eardrum, and the needle are at that moment aligned, all caught in a moment of imitation.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003e Chapter II: Analogical Becomings \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We can imagine all of these entities, Barking Cats, Crossdressing Diogenes, Becoming, Noods Radio, Coral Bay, and so on, as particles, and as they come together, they collide and interact. It was at this time that the protagonist particle of this story, Lumbung Radio, appeared. This story, and by extension this book, propagated out of that collision. Lumbung, an extension of Documenta Fifteen, was looking for participants in a radio-based project called Lumbung Radio. The word Lumbung was important to Ruangrupa’s organization of Documenta Fifteen, a word that means “Communal Rice Barn” in Indonesia. It is not difficult to imagine the kind of interpretations one could have of a Lumbung, and the idea of Lumbung Radio was to create this communal barn, but for radio shows, which is why they were reaching out for participants.” \u003cstrong\u003e— \u003ci\u003eChapter III: The Roots of This \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDETAILS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAuthor: \"niko mas\"\u003cbr\u003eDate: October 2023\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1st\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eNO\u003c\/span\u003e: 2A(ε)\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Becoming Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eISBN: 978-9925-7984-5-2 (.ePub)\u003cbr\u003eDiagrams \u0026amp; illustrations by Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo be cited as:\u003cbr\u003eMas, N. 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The first came at the very beginning, as a magazine published by our old record label, the second came just before we opened our Publishing House. Now, as we enter a new era, this magazine, the fruit of the Becoming Tree, is ripe enough to fall.     \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue is dedicated to the first-born of Becoming, a record label named Eternal\/Return. We are using ÊT\/RE to return to our centre, Music. Yet, we have a specific take on music that we wish to dedicate ÊT\/RE to: we want to view music as a matter of world-building, of utterance, invocation—music is the second fire of Prometheus, we must carry it into the dark as we would a flame. Music is arcane; it is a ritual of summoning, of calling a forth a future—it is with sound that we create new spacetimes, and with music we create new worlds. It is hard to talk about music without talking about everything else. 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While it was thematically loose, bundles of threads started to form, as if a yet-indistinct theme had started coagulating amongst the chaos. This magazine will take its own course, as we grant more and more editorial and creative freedom to those who choose to participate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf anyone was around in 2021 when we released the prototype of Becoming Magazine, one will see a clear connection, but it is also abundantly clear that a lot has changed, we have become better organizers and designers since then. We still believe that this is still in its embryonic stages as a magazine, but as grows, more of you join in and slowly something more mature is forming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the emergent patterns revolve around cultural memory, with some key interests in language, archiving, and semiotics. 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With Charles Mudede and Alex Quicho holding Exocapitalism down, it looks as though Marek Poliks \u0026amp; Roberto Alonso Trillo are here to stay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the authors:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarek Poliks is a researcher in the philosophy of technology, especially with respect to deep learning. He’s based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marek and his primary research partner Roberto Alonso Trillo (HKBU) have been working to situate deep learning tools as endosymbiotic reproductive infrastructure (inorganic vehicles through which biological, epistemological, and social information is encoded, subject to contingent processes, and transmitted).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoberto Alonso Trillo is a theorist and artist whose work spans cultural theory, media philosophy, and experimental sound. Based in Hong Kong, his research engages the aesthetic and political dimensions of machine learning, with particular attention to infrastructural critique and performativity. In ongoing collaboration with Marek Poliks, he investigates AI theory and speculative design as part of a broader inquiry into automation and cultural production. His interdisciplinary practice extends into sound art, post-instrumental music, and critical pedagogy.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/strong\u003eMarek Poliks \u0026amp; Roberto Alonso Trillo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword: \u003c\/strong\u003eCharles Mudede\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword: \u003c\/strong\u003eAlex Quicho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Avocado Ibuprofen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design:\u003c\/strong\u003e Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                       (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                        \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate: \u003c\/strong\u003eAugust 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e(BECOMING)010A\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-9925-8156-7-8 (Print)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/strong\u003eEnglish\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Perfect Bound\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 13cm x 19cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePoliks, M., Trillo, R.A.(2025) Exocapitalism: Economies with absolutely no limits. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. 978-9925-8156-7-8.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeer reviews:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExocapitalism\u003c\/i\u003e offers an alternative to Nick Land that is desperately needed—not because it is more sober (it isn't), but because it is \u003ci\u003eless horny.\u003c\/i\u003e The sexy AI alien of technocapital is revealed to be nothing more than a Rule 34 drawing of slime mold, or perhaps a kind of yeast, that meek inheritor of the Earth leaving all of humanity \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003ebehind.\" — New Models (Lil Internet \u0026amp; Caroline Busta)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“The \u003ci\u003ehuman-within-human \u003c\/i\u003ecould be framed as the psychotic, because they are precisely the one who lives outside of reality, because of the foreclosure of the Other and so forth. Normally, when we are talking about \u003ci\u003ethe human\u003c\/i\u003e, we are talking about \u003ci\u003eneurotic subjectivity\u003c\/i\u003e, which comes through repression, which is simply a way to manage the unbearable real, and so the psychotic is someone who tries to endure this unbearable real on their own. Through science we are reminded that the real, without mediation, can be endured; we do not need extra structures for the real to be \u003ci\u003econsistent\u003c\/i\u003e. Through the psychotic, we can prove that existence without this external mediation is possible. Exocapitalism works to confirm this on the economical, computational and the transcendental level, as the first theory of how unconstrained capitalism can be \u003ci\u003econsistent\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e – Maks Valenčič\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eYou will never look at Salesforce the same way... It is one thing to realize that one is a serf for a techno-feudalist master; it is another thing to realize that one is a vavasour to a piece of digital land that is no longer planar but scalar, dragged only in order to be lifted once again. There is no masterdom at the scale of capital: only an algorithm all unto itself.” — Alessandro Sbordoni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is not an argument for a new phase of capitalism, but rather a cosmological, retroactive take on the continuity of capital as an inhuman algorithm modelled on finance and software rather than factory and labor, manifesting in the contemporary topology of the spongy and blob-like digital business formations—this is bound to be controversial, but it is worth contending with. So love it or hate it, \u003ci\u003eExocapitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is original, enlightening and infuriating: a book to be reckoned with.” — Tziana Terranova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Not even a thing, capitalism is mutable; it is only its mutants. It's whatever x-capitalism works right now. So let x = neoliberal \/ racial \/ industrial \/ platform \/ autocratic \/ financial \/ green \/ techno \/ bio \/ etc. as you prefer — even, now, on its way to the another yet-more-whacked variant, let x=X too. Concatenated, meshed without term or unity, capitalism is only beside itself: an exocapitalism, as Marek Poliks \u0026amp; Roberto Alonso Trillo succinctly call it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eSure, human labour has been a pit-stop in this prolific adaptation but, as Poliks and Trillo contend, that's only a domestication of exocapitalism, handy for a little moment in its history—and of course for the self-regard of its benighted (and, honestly, now tired) critics. Detached from this stabilising narcissism, Exocapitalism does us the immense favour of staying true to its anti-object: thematically promiscuous, scale agnostic, attentive to its n-tupled deleteriousness, Poliks and Trillo advance a latency theory of accumulation by which, as they put it, capitalism gets to be done on anything. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eYou won't get an easy out—you already have the dignity of human labour for that—but you will get to see some shapes of what mutability looks like when it's optimised for accumulation by ubiquitous volatilisation.” — Suhail Malik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From the chain of signifiers—platform extractivism, green deal, crypto, and techno-feudalism—there is no exit, but exo-; your cosmo-finance model for the precarious. Once capital lost its fixed references, new speculative worlds open up, each with their own logic. There may be infinite complexity, yet, in the current geo-political whirlwind it all comes down to a reduction of flows into a simple economic model, and Poliks \u0026amp; Trillo navigate this abstraction ladder in an elegant way. Revolving around software and data-centres, capitalism is a germ which produces worlds.\" — Geert Lovink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece... 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It is being presented now with a suite of endorsements from a group of exciting writers and researchers, including Persis Bekkering, Thomas Lamarre, and Yuchen Li. Much of the first edition is preserved, and an extra text has been added, written by the editor as a part of the lecture at Ifilnova. There has been a focus on making this book more accessible, so we have reworked the design of this edition in Black \u0026amp; White.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Unconscious is Semiotic, not Linguistic, and it only jumps out when you read between the lines. Do you remember, back in 1997, when 600 kids had epileptic shocks whilst watching Television—the Pokémon Shock? This might sound strange at first, but Lucas Ferraço Nassif theorises that, contrary to the claim that this was caused by oscillations of blue and red light alone, it could have been caused by microperceptions and intensities within narrative. As Porygon takes Ash and friends into the digital world, the immanence of unconscious assemblages drags viewers in, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSuch is the haptic and imagetic nature of this book. Using several design and editorial strategies, and a particular mode of writing, the author attempts to elaborate on their work on the Unconscious by recreating a similar possibility—where book, language and reader collapse into a composition, an assemblage or a haecceity. Unconsciousness operates as the multiplanar compositions of Japanese Anime do, so this book has been organized accordingly—different texts, different temporalities, different voices—and like the Japanese concept of Ma (negative space), or even like CoreCore, something jumps out of the breaks, the gaps in between the layers, and therein lies, for this book, a departure point for elaborating on not just one, but many, Unconscious(es). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher in the ERC project FILM AND DEATH and an integrated member of CineLab - Laboratory of Cinema and Philosophy, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis. Director and editor of the films Reinforced Concrete, Being Boring, and Unfamiliar Ceiling\/The Beast; and author of the book Missing Links, published by Barakunan, and awarded by the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] in Portugal as the best monographic book of 2023. Lucas Ferraço Nassif's investigations happen between psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis, operating with the clinical approach to the unconscious that aims at the entanglement of art and the production of thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(The author was supported by the European Research Council Consolidator Grant FILM AND DEATH number 101088956). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnconscious\/Television (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Lucas Ferraço Nassif\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEdit: \u003ci\u003e0nty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: November 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: (becoming)08B\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-647-07-1 (Print)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Perfect Bound\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 14.8cm x 21cm\u003cbr\u003ePages: 230\u003cbr\u003eUmschlag: Bilderdruck Matt 300g\/m\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInhalt: Munken White Vol 1.75 80g\/m\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                               \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003eNassif, L. F. (2025) Unconscious\/Television. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. 978-9925-647-07-1.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEndorsements\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe new book of Lucas Ferraço Nassif about the Becomings of Unconscious Television will certainly be a fundamental reference for several fields of knowledge – from anime and media studies to literature, visual arts, psychoanalysis and even fashion. It is probably one of the most original and audacious narratives written in recent years. The organization was conceived in partnership with the editorial team, and the result is a dynamic game of metamorphoses between content and form, without the traditional dichotomies. During my reading, I thought about a book becoming a film (or anime), a visual narrative becoming gesture, and all these images becoming an internal musical composition. The dialogues with Thomas Lamarre, Sandor Ferenczi and, of course, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari reverberate in the flesh. \u003cbr\u003e            In the first pages, Nassif quotes Isabel Ghirardi: “language is secretion”. I immediately thought about the butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi, who used to say: “expression is secretion”. Let’s keep this in mind during our reading. This will be a powerful strategy to make words, feelings and images flow through our bodies reinventing ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Christine Greiner\u003ci\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eChair of the Department of Art São Paolo Pontifical Catholic University\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is one of a kind: a beneficial bomb! Lucas Ferraço Nassif is not content with destroying a certain traditional brand of psychoanalitical criticism, he offers bright new vistas: updating Lacanian Theory to new \u003ci\u003emediaphilosophical\u003c\/i\u003e levels, infusing it with a pinch of deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis, following the logic of the dream, waves of productive chaos crushing against oedipal academy. The wonderful design of the book is not a gimmick: it’s a generous eye-candy that nourishes and backs up the book‘s conceptual force. They made a dream-team, and this fractal structure really invites readers to grow their own crystals at each and every point … a remarkable achievement!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Bernd Herzogenrath, \u003cbr\u003eProfessor at Goethe University Frankfurt\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow to imagine a psychoanalysis that dethrones the symbolic order? Jacques Lacan, but make it process philosophy. Schizoanalysis, but make it multinaturalist. Theory blossomed during the heydays of television and this book somehow reads like an artefact from those bygone days, but written by someone plugged into a terminally online unconscious – an unconscious saturated with moving images (on the small screen), not written like a language. I have to be real: Unconscious\/Television puzzled me. I don't know if it is intended to be understood on the level of meaning or content. It is composed to be experienced. Words behaving like animated images, written in a metonymic chain of jump cuts. That makes Lucas Ferraço Nassif's work really exciting, and proves Becoming Press once more as the most forward thinking publisher of today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Persis Bekkering, \u003cbr\u003eWriter\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnconscious\/Television\u003c\/i\u003e is as tenacious as it is audacious in its bid to trace the electric torsions of anime.  Lucas Ferraço Nassif provides a series of brilliant demonstrations, remonstrations, and ultimately monstrations that what is (temporarily) excluded from attention is the very event, the whole show, the stuff of television. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Thomas Lamarre, \u003cbr\u003eProfessor at University of Chicago\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr Lucas Ferraço Nassif’s writing confronts psychoanalysis’ weakness in understanding the Real. In facing the TV images, Dr Lucas Ferraço Nassif does not repeat psychoanalysis’ compulsion to know everything, rather, he finds a position of dwelling between the known and the unknown – staying true to the enigmas and writing about them without the symbolic’s colonization. This is exactly how we want to get in touch with the Real – not only can we have a close reading of late Lacan and Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis, but we relive it, dream within it, and get lost in it through the texts, which are mapped out resembling the maze-like unconscious. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Yuchen Li, \u003cbr\u003ePsychoanalyst and Researcher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eUnconscious\/Television reads as if it were carved directly into matter: on skin, on stone, and on the screen itself, piercing its surface. This is an image that Lucas Ferraço retrieves from Thomas Lamarre: in anime, perspective perforates the flat screen. Unlike a long-standing tradition that frames images as dreams, hallucinations, or mental projections—from Münsterberg to Schéfer, from Metz to Mitry—ethereal and ghostly realities, here images have weight; they contaminate, poison; television occupies a physical space, displacing bodies, reshaping the landscape, and making us ill. The act of reading it is also experienced with discomfort. One must allow oneself to be torn apart by the book—and the book, too, is torn, fragmented, reordered; at times the text is missing as air is missing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— David Ferragut, \u003cbr\u003eResearcher\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Lucas Ferraço Nassif’s written gestures carry forces that fold upon themselves, producing something unlike anything seen before. Something begins to vibrate here — a connection with the multiplicity of cinemas, anime, psychoanalysis, and schizoanalysis. This book is composed of zones of proximity, of productive alliances for a war machine. 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A work that stands out for its clarity and radicality, and that does not merely describe the present, but calls its fundamental coordinates into question.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e Pietro Bianchi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003eThis book proposes a reversal of a common convention within contemporary critical theory: the idea that desire is an entropic, creative and potentially emancipatory force. Against this view, the author figures desire as negentropic, structured around stability, prediction, and calculation. Far from being disrupted by technocapital, this desire finds there a troubling affinity, and is seemingly propelled toward increasingly self-destructive forms. Retrograde Prometheus, part a poetic narrative, and part speculative treatise, seeks to reformulate these categories through which we understand desire, along with all the existential, ethical, and political implications that such a radical change in perspective may entail.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is composed of 46 subheadings (§), each addressing subjectivity, desire, and progress in relation to concepts drawn from natural history and the sciences, including topics such as psychocomputation, negentropy\/entropy, sexuality, capitalism, and political agency. These parts are concatenated and recursive, ranging from miniatures to longer essays, as well as aphoristic reflections and microfictions. These modules are conceived as a concatenation of concepts that together build a unified theory that responds not only to thinkers such as Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler, or Slavoj Žižek, but also to the broader amalgamation of what we call psycho-analytic theory, the philosophy of technology, and contemporary theories concerning the human subject, technology, and progress.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003eSo much has changed since \u003cem\u003eAnti-Oedipus\u003c\/em\u003e (or even since \u003cem\u003eAnti-Narcissus\u003c\/em\u003e!), let alone since the Seminars of Lacan—the amount that has changed since Freud, therefore, is unimaginable. Where is psychoanalysis today, post-internet, post-COVID? What has changed for the subject (as well as how we understand the subject) due to these advancements in technology and science, with these changes in how we understand our history and genesis, and with how we understand the relationship between technology, language and worlds?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRetrograde Prometheus tells a story of psychoanalysis today—two decades into the Ontological Turn—and its encounter with computation, advancements in quantum theory, with Exocapitalism, with pluralism, and so on.\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristian Nirvana Damato is a philosopher, writer, and curator. He is the founder of Inactual, a research, editorial, and curatorial space dedicated to visual studies, contemporary art, and new technologies. He has published \u003cem\u003eMultiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Identity, Technology, Desire\u003c\/em\u003e (Becoming Press, 2025) and \u003cem\u003eDigisexuality\u003c\/em\u003e (Everyday Analysis, 2025). He also edited \u003cem\u003eMedial Disorders: Interpretive and Non-Statistical Compendium of Technological Disorders, Vol. I \u0026amp; II\u003c\/em\u003e (Inactual, 2024–2025), and \u003cem\u003eArtificiofilia\u003c\/em\u003e (Inactual, 2026).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRetrograde Prometheus: Subjectivity \u0026amp; Computation (2026) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/strong\u003eChristian Nirvana Damato\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLayout \u0026amp; Design:\u003c\/strong\u003e Becoming\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMenge: \u003c\/strong\u003e600 copies\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e(Becoming)015A\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-9925-647-24-8 \u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e(Print)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrinted \u0026amp; Bound by: \u003c\/b\u003eTallinn Book Printers, Estonia\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: \u003c\/b\u003eSoftcover\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eSewn Binding\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: \u003c\/b\u003e11cm x 18cm\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUmschlag: \u003c\/b\u003e300g Munken Pure rough\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInnen: \u003c\/b\u003e70g Holmen Book Cream\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo be cited as:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDamato, C. 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This shift to digisexuality changes our very perception of reality. “Physical reality exists, but it is less and less the primary object of significant investment, and also of desiring investment—a cumbersome residue that we do not know what to do with.” The body is thus “no longer essential for communication,” increasingly “an embarrassing surplus in communication, a mass that we would be pleased to get rid of.” Damato's analysis focuses on the moment when this shift occurs (and is already underway): when our body is no longer “what we are,” where our self is located, but instead is experienced as something external—so that we become more “ourselves” in digital space than in our physical bodies.” — Slavoj Žižek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristian Nirvana Damato is a philosopher, writer, and curator. He is the founder of Inactual, a research, editorial, and curatorial space dedicated to visual studies, contemporary art, and new technologies. He has published \u003cem\u003eMultiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Identity, Technology, Desire\u003c\/em\u003e (Becoming Press, 2025) and \u003cem\u003eDigisexuality\u003c\/em\u003e (Everyday Analysis, 2025). He also edited \u003cem\u003eMedial Disorders: Interpretive and Non-Statistical Compendium of Technological Disorders, Vol. I \u0026amp; II\u003c\/em\u003e (Inactual, 2024–2025), and \u003cem\u003eArtificiofilia\u003c\/em\u003e (Inactual, 2026).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMultiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Technology, Identity, Desire (2025)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Christian Nirvana Damato\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Vincenzo Estremo\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: June 2025\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: (becoming)09A\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8207-0-2 (Print)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Perfect Bound\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 13cm x 19cm\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations by Angeriki Koutsodimitropoulou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayouts \u0026amp; Design by Becoming\u003cbr\u003e                                               (Claire Elise,\u003cbr\u003e                                                \u0026amp; Polymnia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eTo be cited as:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDamato, C. N. (2025) Multiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Technology, Identity, Desire. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003ePeer reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“One may think that the history of the human culture is going to be enormously impoverished by the disappearance of the body, one may think that, on the contrary, human culture has been enriched by the renounce to presence and physical contact. It is not the intention of Damato to save this dilemma, His intention is rather to open a new field of investigation, and possibly to start a reflection on a more advanced dilemma: will the change of perception make possible the emergence of a new ontology, or is the disappearance of the body going to mark the final dissolution of human life itself?” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Franco 'Bifo' Berardi\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedia bombard us with speculations about how artificial intelligence will affect our lives, asserting itself as an alien power. Instead of merely extending our bodily organs and technological machines to serve us—making our lives less stressful and more satisfying—it will effectively regulate and dominate even our innermost feelings and desires. Surprisingly, although we believe we live in an era of sexual permissiveness, there are far fewer texts on the “transformations of sociality and sexuality in relation to digital technology,” i.e., on “the ways in which devices and platforms influence and produce normative systems capable of changing the way we perceive, desire, and relate to others”. Christian Damato’s \u003ci\u003eMultiplication of Organs—Body, Technology, Identity, Desire\u003c\/i\u003e addresses precisely this topic in all its dimensions, from fascinating analyses of wearable technologies to broader implications of digisexuality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Slavoj Žižek\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55343267578190,"sku":"9A","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/Multiplication_of_Organs__FRONT_square_clay_3000x3000_127d7a8a-e637-4945-875f-4e6fa39ca90f.png?v=1760722698"},{"product_id":"technically-man-dwells-upon-this-earth-2","title":"Technically Man Dwells upon this Earth (2023) by Ulysse Carrière","description":"\u003ch4\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWelcome to the age of differential henology.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eThis text leaves us with a clearing of the conceptual ground for thinking of the Intellect as unbounded production (as you are about to see unfold). This setting is able to provide a meaning to acceleration as the relinquishment of identity to itself. All that can be automated, must be, for it already is; real acceleration derives from the potentiality to realize that which one already eels is at work in the now, the \u003ci\u003ewirklich\u003c\/i\u003e working its way to the real. The tedious bone-crushing wheels of history will never stop turning, not until they have turned the world itself into a purposeless engine, at which point there will be no calculation left to execute anyway. The logic of extinction here reveals itself as the condition for anarchic creation to operate, as its unilateral counterpart. Instead of giving ourselves to erotics or, Gods forbid, aesthetics as a replacement for thought, there remains only the immanent necessity of understanding Thinking as a thinking of the Beautiful. — Louise Morelle, Foreword\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe book where it all began. There would be no Becoming Press without Technically Man Dwells, a book authored by someone who even to today has captured the hearts of a lot of the people who follow Becoming’s activities; a deep appreciation for the intelligence of this author is something that the group shares in common. This book is excellent; a very elegant prose that gives an incredibly sophisticated deconstruction and response, to, Artificial Intelligence, and the question of A.I art. The time of \u003ci\u003eArt\u003c\/i\u003e has come; \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c\/i\u003e the time of the \u003ci\u003eArtist\u003c\/i\u003e is over!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is unlikely that this book will be reprinted. Introduced with grace by Louis Morelle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTechnically Man Dwells upon this Earth (2023)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Ulysse Carrière\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Louise Morelle\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: October 2024\u003cbr\u003eCat\u003cu\u003e\u003csup\u003eNO\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e: (becoming)01B\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8118-3-0 (Print)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Perfect Bound\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 11cm x 18cm\u003cbr\u003ePages: 80\u003cbr\u003eUmschlag: Keyakolor Recycled 300g\/m\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInhalt: Munken White Vol 1.75 80g\/m\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesign by Becoming \u003cbr\u003e                        (Claire Elise \u0026amp; \u003cbr\u003e                        Polymnia)\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caption\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo be cited as: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Carrière, U. (2024) Technically Man Dwells upon this Earth. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. \u003cbr\u003e978-9925-8118-3-0.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55343279505742,"sku":"1A","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/0328\/4046\/files\/TechnicallyManDwells_FRONT_square_clay_3000x3000_3c660e44-7d7e-4883-a7fa-9b7157493f5c.png?v=1760732900"},{"product_id":"christian-eschatology-of-artificial-intelligence","title":"Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh (2024) by Giorgi Vachnadze","description":"\u003ch4\u003eOur Algorithm, who art in AWS servers; lead us not into clickbait, and deliver us from Targeted Ads, for the Platform Economy, the Investment Capital, and the Surplus are yours—now and forever. Amen.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo write in Georgia is to write between two superpowers, the West and Russia; the only way to create space for oneself is to pit these powers against each other. In a way, a writer writing in Georgia is also caught between the hegemonies of Corporate-AI Neoliberalism and Orthodox Christianity. Set in motion by a punk, reactionary impulse, Giorgi Vachnadze pits these two overbearing symbolics against each other; what falls out when two discourses are concatenated against each other: a new signifier? An object a? A mathematical remainder?\u003cbr\u003e        On a certain epistemic level, pitting AI against Christianity is a sublimation of pitting Capital against itself, an intensification of Capital that seeks to push it towards collapse; the author has thus built a discourse accelerator. This is a hysterical book, where two negatives are brought together and then fed through a positivistic, double-meat-grinder of Foucault and Wittgenstein, and what remained, so to speak, was almost unreasonably interesting. It is not just one thing that falls out of this dialectic, but dozens; the collision brings to the surface a great deal of interesting subject matter, from the sociology of calculation, to the semiotics of the Flesh, to encratic regimes of self-governance, colonialism and sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e        Whether read as a strategic move or a rant, the book is very entertaining in its shifting around from detailed studies of Alan Turing’s philosophical work, to close readings of Biblical scripture—the selection of these two signifiers, AI \u0026amp; Christianity, wasn’t, after all, just an isolated grievance, but a neurotic symptom atop a deeply rooted contradiction playing out within the subjectivity of the author—so while it is, in a way, an auto-psychoanalytical production, it might as well be any of us in the chair, right?    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a hysterical book, in the sense that it is the author’s own psychoanalysis made out of theory. 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Chasing the progress train of technology, humans have become parasites clinging to their own creations and suffering endless and repetitious loss to their subjectivity as they fail to keep up with the world. But humans - unlike other organisms - have something on their side: desire. Through desire - the fundamental human drive for stability, for personal and collective balance - we find an inevitable resistance to the patterns of our technocaptalist world. Through it, we can move away from death and toward meaning. In his brilliant intervention into the present, Retrograde Prometheus, Christian Nirvana Damato offers us this powerful reminder that desire is at the heart of subjectivity and that only this conception of the human can save us from the dystopian patterns in our world today.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e— \u003c\/i\u003eAlfie Bown\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRetrograde Prometheus\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to an emerging style of theory that combines natural history with philosophy of technology. In this new theory of subjectivity, desire is recast as a great balancing act, always intended to stabilize the organism against the inevitable. Through this singular move, Christian Nirvana Damato turns decades of theorizing about emancipation upside down, uncovering a computational subject operating according to a cold, selfish logic.\" \u003cstrong\u003e— Carl Olsson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In Retrograde Prometheus, Christian Nirvana Damato offers an ambitious and compelling reading of the relationship between technology and subjectivity, articulated around the idea of a negentropic desire for stability. The book’s merit lies in bringing together anthropogenesis, technogenesis, and phantagenesis within a single process, showing how the mathematization of being and computational capitalism intercept and reorganize the anticipatory structure of desire. A work that stands out for its clarity and radicality, and that does not merely describe the present, but calls its fundamental coordinates into question.\" \u003cstrong\u003e— Pietro Bianchi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003eThis book proposes a reversal of a common convention within contemporary critical theory: the idea that desire is an entropic, creative and potentially emancipatory force. Against this view, the author figures desire as negentropic, structured around stability, prediction, and calculation. Far from being disrupted by technocapital, this desire finds there a troubling affinity, and is seemingly propelled toward increasingly self-destructive forms. Retrograde Prometheus, part a poetic narrative, and part speculative treatise, seeks to reformulate these categories through which we understand desire, along with all the existential, ethical, and political implications that such a radical change in perspective may entail.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is composed of 46 subheadings (§), each addressing subjectivity, desire, and progress in relation to concepts drawn from natural history and the sciences, including topics such as psychocomputation, negentropy\/entropy, sexuality, capitalism, and political agency. These parts are concatenated and recursive, ranging from miniatures to longer essays, as well as aphoristic reflections and microfictions. These modules are conceived as a concatenation of concepts that together build a unified theory that responds not only to thinkers such as Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler, or Slavoj Žižek, but also to the broader amalgamation of what we call psycho-analytic theory, the philosophy of technology, and contemporary theories concerning the human subject, technology, and progress.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003eSo much has changed since \u003cem\u003eAnti-Oedipus\u003c\/em\u003e (or even since \u003cem\u003eAnti-Narcissus\u003c\/em\u003e!), let alone since the Seminars of Lacan—the amount that has changed since Freud, therefore, is unimaginable. Where is psychoanalysis today, post-internet, post-COVID? What has changed for the subject (as well as how we understand the subject) due to these advancements in technology and science, with these changes in how we understand our history and genesis, and with how we understand the relationship between technology, language and worlds?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRetrograde Prometheus tells a story of psychoanalysis today—two decades into the Ontological Turn—and its encounter with computation, advancements in quantum theory, with Exocapitalism, with pluralism, and so on.\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristian Nirvana Damato is a philosopher, writer, and curator. He is the founder of Inactual, a research, editorial, and curatorial space dedicated to visual studies, contemporary art, and new technologies. He has published \u003cem\u003eMultiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Identity, Technology, Desire\u003c\/em\u003e (Becoming Press, 2025) and \u003cem\u003eDigisexuality\u003c\/em\u003e (Everyday Analysis, 2025). 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