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Well, a week ago we had a caption prepared for this post, but given the amount of visibility and feedback that the first two teasers garnered, this book, The Future is Not Lost (2026) by Matt Bluemink, may not need introducing at all. If not for exposition, then it is for posterity, that we announce this title, scheduled for release in June. It’s a book about futurity, which picks up the conversation from where Mark Fisher left off, a conversation that, at its heart, is of a timeless and beautiful sentiment: if there is an answer, it must have something to do with music — right? THE FUTURE IS NOT LOST: ON MUSIC, TECHNOLOGY AND THE CREATION OF NEW WORLDS

As you may have guessed from the recent posts and stories, it is time to release Retrograde Prometheus: Subjectivity & Computation (2026) by Christian Nirvana Damato @christian__nirvana_damato . We have presented this book now in three cities, Venice @books.bruno , Ljubljana @sumjournal and Vienna @weibel.institute , and it has been really fun talking with you all about everything from the magic of computation, to what the difference between neurotic and psychotic societies might be, to the origins of life itself and the evolution of self-awareness. The preorders are already out in the mail–non-US customers may have already started receiving their orders. US customers will receive a USPS tracking number as soon as the shipment reaches our partner in Seattle @fangtooth_books (dispatched 17/4, imminent arrival). The e-book is now also available from today, from our webstore and metalabel. We will be presenting the book at least once more, in Berlin on May 8th at proqm @proqm Many thanks to Alfie Bown @everydayanalysis , Carl Olsson @carlolssongeo and Pietro Bianchi @pitobianchi for the endorsements. 🤓🔥🏹💦 The video recordings of all presentations will be made available online at a later point.

Out today, Of Enemies & Venison: First Materials for an Aztec Cosmotechnic (2026) by Lou Manuel Arsenault. This book reignites the question of cosmotechnics with quite the bang. Lou Manuel Arsenault heeds the call of Yuk Hui, whose proposed notion of technodiversity suggests the existence of an almost infinite number of cosmotechnics immanently entangled with a plurality of worlds that co-exist, reach across each other, and interact. What are the techniques, technologies and tropes from which this world-now-buried had once arisen from? The author proposes that the intertwined sacrificial and ceremonial practices of Hunting and Warfare form the symbolic backbone of this world, a world in which opposites—self and other—merge together in reciprocal identification; Human, Jaguar, Deer, Mother, Enemy, all become one another. As such, this is an excursus on cosmotechnics that keeps a firm eye on Philippe Descola and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and digs deep down into the gaps between concepts like multinaturalism and technodiversity. The book is out now, and it’s a really beautiful print; it’s our first attempt to print with offset, and it’s our first attempt at embossing and foiling, and we’re extremely proud of how it turned out. The book is complete with images from various codices, and a momentous afterword from Victor G. García Casteñeda worthy of a standing ovation. This book speaks a lot to readers of radical anthropology and the ontological turn, as well as decolonial and philosophy of technology discourses. [Non-US preorders have all been shipped yesterday, and the US-preorders will be dispatched by USPS in around a week.] #theory #philosophy #anthropology #technology #print

OFFPRINT: May 15–17, London, U.K. Becoming Press will be at OFFPRINT, thanks to our friend Benjamin from Paris' After8 Bookstore ( @after.8.books ), who was kind enough to offer to represent us and our books at London's fête du livreeeeeeeee 🎀 ☔☔

It's exciting to finally release this online, a powerful text written as the afterword to Lou Manuel Arsenault's "Of Enemies & Venison" (2026). With its tantalising title, the afterword's author, Victor G. García Casteñeda "takes no prisoners" (pun-intended). Victor was writing in a very similar moment about something relatable to Lou's work, and we hope to put together a radio episode with him about Cosmotechnics and Maize, (and everything that follows). We agreed with Lou that Victor may be the ideal person to ask for help in finalising this project for tribute, but we may not have anticipated how momentous the contribution would be. This text hits like a hurricane, driving home the importance of the kind of theoretical realm that Lou (and Victor) inhabit. We don't really like being sensational, but reading this text again before posting brought a tear to our eye. You'll have to forgive us. Thank you for writing this text, Victor! You can also read this on our website. There are still copies of the gold edition of Of Enemies & Venison, you can find it on our webstore. We also have a new post-script written by Lou Manuel Arsenault that we will publish sometime soon, and we are also working on the translation of the book launch in Quebec. This all culminates in Lou meeting Yuk Hui at ICI, here in Berlin with us, in late June. H y p e r s t i t i o n 🙂‍↔️

This is a transcription of a short excerpt from a panel entitled "We Are From Nowhere: Feminism Today" which was hosted by School of Materialist Research at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung last February, in the midsts of the BVG strikes and -15ºC. For complicated reasons we couldn't transcribe the entire event, but we have opted to upload and publish the first response to the title by Katerina Kolozova because, honestly, we continuously want to refer to various things said in this short excerpt, and so we are making full use of our publishing machine to generate new perma-links and reference points to things we don't wish to lose track of. Katerina Kolozova is a director of The School of Materialist Research, and her work in non-philosophy (following Laruelle) has been extremely formative of our own work here at Becoming — especially her work bringing non-philosophy into the domains of feminism (non-feminism) , posthumanism (non-humanism) and her continuation of non-philosophy as a form of radical Materialism. The entire (short) excerpt can be read here on Instagram, though there is an additional part on the website that features Claire Elise and Lindsay Lerman, as well. Thank you ✨✨

Out in June, The Future is not Lost by Matt Blumink @blue_labyrinths 🔵 Pre-order now with discount ⚫️ edited by Alessandro Sbordoni @alessandrosbordoni777 ⚪️

Two new publications from @becoming.press 😍😍 Retrograde Prometheus - Subjectivity & Computation 🏷️ 5990 HUF Of Enemies & Vension - First Materials for an Aztec Cosmotechnic 🏷️ 5990 HUF @christian__nirvana_damato #isbnplus #isbnplusz #becomingpress #criticaltheory #artbookshop

now available from zoème in Marsaille @zoeme_galerieeditionlibrairie 💦 →Retrograde Prometheus →Of Enemies & Venison →Empires over Skin →Exocapitalism →Unconscious/Television →Semiotics of the End →In the Delirium of the Simulation

Empires Over Skin: How We Fashioned Our World by @meltdown_your_books , shot by @page_five_ ✨ “Empires over Skin is a must read if you are interested in design and concept production. The book starts with a first person elaboration of the author’s own attachment to what they wear, and from there, moves into an elaboration about the awareness one needs in order to have agency in the midst of fashioning forces.” — Lucas Ferraço Nassif @lucasferraconassif

a day in Venice 💦 thank you to bruno books @books.bruno for hosting us, again, for the first presentation of Retrograde Prometheus by Christian @christian__nirvana_damato 💦 + more thanks to @davidetolfo @alessandrosbordoni777 and @girlaccelerated 💦