UNDERCOVER SOFTNESS: POLITICS AND ARCHITECTURE OF DECAY
A seminar with Reza Negarestani
Abstraction and Building Softness; Political Decay and the Middle Eastern Model of Impossible Death; Decay and Artificiality; Scholastic Chemistry; Decay and Cosmogenesis; Francis Bacon, Pottery, Leprosy and Ruins (A mathematical modeling)
Goldsmiths, University of London
Center for Cultural Studies
Wednesday 9 May 2007
2-5pm, Room DTH109
To attend the seminar please contact Dr
Luciana Parisi at l.parisi@gold.ac.uk
MACHINES ARE DIGGING: ON POROUS EARTH AND EMERGENCE
A seminar with Reza Negarestani
Subsurface Political Geography; Surface Globalization; Underground Facilities and Chthonic Militarization; Archeology as the Science of Military Education in 21st Century; Tora Bora and the Cappadocian Complex; Worm Factor; Middle Eastern Necropolises and Underground Nuclear Facilities; Petropolitics, Guerilla-states and Architecture of Holes; Videogame Rhetoric and Memory as the Models of Alien Incursion; Poromechanics of War
Goldsmiths, University of London
Department of Visual Cultures
Thursday 10 May 2007
Room: tba