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Radical Futurisms - Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come available now on planisphere.eu/shop

There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerging from the traditions of the oppressed—Indigenous, African-American, multispecies, anti-capitalist—as materialized in experimental visual cultural, new media, aesthetic practices, and social movements, T. J. Demos poses speculative questions about what comes after end-of-world narratives. He argues that it’s as vital to defeat fatalistic nihilism as it is to defeat the false solutions of green capitalism and algorithmic governance. How might we decolonize the future, and cultivate an emancipated chronopolitics in relation to an undetermined not-yet? If we are to avoid climate emergency’s cooptation by technofixes, and the defuturing of multitudes by xenophobic eco-fascism, Demos argues, we must cultivate visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing. February 2023, English 15×21.5 cm, 224 pages, 40 color and 1 b/w ill., softcover ISBN 978-3-95679-527-5 DESIGN Keith Dodds

PLASTIC PULSE [Limited Edition] - EZRA MILLER available on planisphere.eu/shop In the wake of so many dramatic shifts in memory and its depictions, Ezra Miller stands as a dystopian heir to the Art of Memory. Starting with images he gathers in daily life, the artist implements a process of deformation, creasing the code that makes up the surface of his images, fanning out near-infinite prospects from the source image to reach a delicate balance between photography and its altered material. —Nicolas Giraud The whole world is only a virtuality that currently exists only in the folds of the soul which convey it, the soul implementing inner pleats through which it endows itself with a representation of the enclosed world. We are moving from inflection to inclusion in a subject, as if from the virtual to the real, inflection defining the fold, but inclusion defining the soul or the subject, that is, what envelops the fold, its final cause and its completed act. —Gilles Deleuze, The Fold, tr. Tom Conley There is no looking at Ezra Miller’s photographs, only looking through them, passing through their algorithmically creased surface. What is made out there is not merely things seen, but recollections to come, the bits and pieces of a floating, shared memory. —Nicolas Giraud Credits
Images: Ezra MillerText: Nicolas GiraudDesign: Bureau KayserTranslation: Jeffrey Zuckermann