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February 23, 2008

Proof of existence

(but apparently under threat of deletion owing to 'unclear notability'):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_realism

February 20, 2008

Preview

Collapse Volume IV (May 2008): Concept-Horror.

The fourth volume of Collapse, to be published 1 May 2008, will feature:

New work by artists Jake and Dinos Chapman; cult weird fiction authors Thomas Ligotti and China Miéville on nihilism weirdness and horror; Eugene Thacker on theology and horror; Graham Harman on the unnatural bond between Husserl and Lovecraft; previously untranslated poetry by Michel Houellebecq; Iain Hamilton Grant on Lorenz Oken's naturphilosophische slime-horror; James Trafford on neurophilosopher Thomas Metzinger's nemocentric theory of consciousness; Reza Negarestani and Robin Mackay on decay, ontology and the Idea; graphic work by Ukrainian artist Oleg Kulik and Czech collective Rafani; a haunting visual essay on cryptozoology by Kristen Alvanson; Canadian artist Stephen Shearer's black metal poems; Quentin Meillassoux on infinite mourning and the virtual god ... and more TBA!

[nb. Advance orders will be possible when content is finalised. A full announcement will be posted here in March.]

Warped UPIC

Haswell & Hecker (see Collapse Vol. III) have released a further selection of work composed using Xenakis' UPIC - Warp Tracks.