Aesthetics After Finitude

It's about time that recent challenges to the philosophical dogma of human finitude made their impact felt on the theory and practice of art and aesthetics, beyond ministering to gallery press-releases' endless hunger for fresh jargon. Bringing together writers, artists, and philosophers who respond to this multifaceted challenge with varying alloys of delirious enthusiasm and theoretical sobriety,  Aesthetics After Finitude  is a kaleidoscopic survey of the present and virtual futures of aesthetic thought.  - Robin Mackay, Editor, Collapse

Aesthetics After Finitude belongs to a major and long overdue aesthetics re-evaluation suitable for an algorithmic age. Having had to come to terms with the unknowability of the world, as well as its existence without us and its complete indifference to us-both philosophically and scientifically-it's time to welcome the reality of 'an aesthetics without the subject'. This is a collective inquiry into art's role within the new meaningless nonhuman order, exposing us to an otherworldly aesthetics that has something to say about this world. - Eleni Ikoniadou, Author of The Rhythmic Event

Philosophy is shaking in its boots as the dissolving intensities of speculative aesthetics writ large assemble in this volume, its escape vectors delivering inscrutabilities fatally impermeable to rational machinations. These occult interventions deliver you to the molten core of an ecology festering with unintelligibilities, aporias, and perennially elusive forces whose shadowy immanence warps unremittingly. - Karen Eliot

Today we are living-and dying-in and as the Phantom of the After. This book is a Necronomicon for its summoning. - Justin Clemens, Author of Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy