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Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh & Reza Negarestani will appear in conversation as part of DURATIONS festival. Presented by Public Records in collaboration with Pioneer Works and the Whitney Museum. FIVE GATES: DISQUIET OF THE VIRTUAL AND THE ARTIFICIAL Saturday, November 8, 7pm 233 Butler Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Five rare sightings from digital culture; five philosophies of strangeness hovering over our techno-existential future. This talk will explore the outer limits of our virtual age by summoning examples of those most obscure moods and atmospheres found in the shadows of the internet (i.e. AI hallucinations, machine oneirics, deceptive avatars, cyber-undergrounds). Though placed together in a collector's room, each "incident" holds its own riddles that compel us to reconsider what is happening now to perception, fear, desire, cruelty, and transformation. What seem like glitches may, in fact, mark the return and intensification of a much older code of consciousness: fissures in mind and experience that suspend us between imagination and disturbance as two sides of the same coin. Tickets available at durations.world @durations.world @publicrecordsnyc @acidhorizonpod @jmohaghegh #rezanegarestani

“Doomed and Famous” premieres at NYFF September 27 & 29 a SEQUENCE PICTURES and ENDYMION PRO film based on “Doomed and Famous: Selected Obituaries” by ADRIAN DANNATT written, directed and edited by BINGHAM BRYANT, cinematography by SEAN PRICE WILLIAMS produced by MIGUEL ABREU, BINGHAM BRYANT, and KATHERINE PICKARD with ADRIAN DANNATT, HUGO GUINNESS, AMY SILLMAN, ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST, DEAN KISSICK, TIM HSU, MIGUEL ABREU, ERIC MITCHELL, PETER BD, JULIAN LETHBRIDGE, FLEUR DE PETIPOIS, PAUL PAGK, and VALERY OISTEANU A prismatic portrait of a longtime denizen of the Downtown NY scene, critic, curator and collector Adrian Dannatt ponders wryly on his eponymous exhibition “Doomed and Famous: Selections from the Adrian Dannatt Collection” at Miguel Abreu Gallery’s original 36 Orchard Street space. This essay film is also a cinematic bagatelle, a glancing ghost story that features cameo performances by a gamut of notorious Manhattan figures, from artists such as Amy Sillman (playing Dorothea Tanning), Hugo Guinness and Julian Lethbridge to writers like Anthony Haden-Guest and Dean Kissick, not to mention playwright Peter BD and that No Wave film star Eric Mitchell; a phantom chorus accompanying the loving revelation of important works by everyone from Noguchi and Norman Lewis to Rammellzee, Nancy Spero, Guy Debord, Beaux Mendes and Nan Goldin. Fully capturing the rich tones of the artwork on display, the sumptuous lensing is by the singular Sean Price Williams. #NYFF @thenyff

Launch of POST-EUROPE by Yuk Hui with Yuk Hui in conversation with Pieter Lemmens at 6.30pm Saturday July 12 @ San Serriffe With the unstoppable advance of global capitalism, the Heimatlosigkeit (homelessness) which twentieth-century European philosophy spoke of—and which Heidegger declared had become the ‘destiny of the world’—is set to become ever more pathological in its consequences. But rather than dreaming of an impossible return to Heimat, Yuk Hui argues that today thinking must start out from the standpoint of becoming-homeless. Drawing on the philosophies of Gilbert Simondon, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, and Jan Patočka alongside the thought of Kitaro Nishida, Keiki Nishitani, and Mou Zongsan among others, Yuk Hui envisions a project of a post-European thinking. If Asia and Europe are to devise new modes of confronting capitalism, technology, and planetarisation, this must take place neither through a neutralisation of differences nor a return to tradition, but through an individuation of thinking between East and West. @sequencepress

We are pleased to host Yuk Hui for a talk and launch of his recently released title, “Post-Europe.” Tuesday, April 22, 7pm Miguel Abreu Gallery, 88 Eldridge St., NYC Today, we increasingly live in a state of becoming-homeless, while our homelessness also produces a desire for some form of homecoming, as is evident in the rise of conservative and neoreactionary movements the world over. This sense of homelessness, which twentieth-century European philosophers spoke of—and which Heidegger declared had become the “destiny of the world”—has become a prevailing condition of globalized capitalism, and is set to turn ever more pathological in its consequences. But rather than dreaming of an impossible return to Heimat, Yuk Hui presents a rethinking of political and epistemological possibilities, and argues that today thinking must start out from the standpoint of becoming-homeless. #yukhui @digitalobjects @miguelabreugallery @urbanomicdotcom @mitpress

In Memoriam: François Laruelle (1937 – 2024) It is with sadness and sorrow that we announce the loss of François Laruelle, who died on October 28, at the age of 87. It was Laruelle’s radical and fundamentally experimental work that served as the impetus to launch Sequence Press in 2010. Our thoughts are with Anne-Françoise Schmid, his wife and fellow philosopher, daughters Marlène and Lorraine, and the many people who were inspired and nurtured by his work. Laruelle was Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X: Nanterre. An inventive philosopher and prolific writer, he developed the concept of ‘non-philosophy’ over his long career, as well as ‘non-standard thought’ in his later work. He authored over twenty-five books and countless articles, including Beyond the Power Principle (1978); A Biography of Ordinary Man (1985); Theory of Strangers: Science of Men, Democracy, Non-Psychoanalysis (1995); Principles of Non-Philosophy (1996); Introduction to Non-Marxism (2000); Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy (2004); Non-Standard Philosophy: Generic, Quantum, Philo-Fiction (2010); Anti-Badiou: The Introduction of Maoism in Philosophy (2011); General Theory of Victims (2012); Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem (2014); In The Last Humanity: The New Ecological Science (2015); Clandestine Theology for Those Without Religion: A Confession of Faith of the Non-Philosopher (2019); and The New Technological Spirit (2020). On his ‘Biography of Ordinary Man’, Laruelle wrote: This is a treatise on human Solitudes. A rigorous science of men does not yet exist. To found it is a necessary task and a possible undertaking. Necessary: the Sciences of Man are not sciences, nor do they have man as their object; they are devoid of theoretical rigor and of humanity. As for philosophy, its anthropology and its humanism, along with their critiques, constitute the oblivion of “ordinary” human essence in the name of the Greek prejudices of Being and Logos. Possible: on condition of going back to the primitive unity of science and man, to the possibility of an immanent description of the singular existence of the individual.

YUK HUI, POST-EUROPE Published by Urbanomic and Sequence Press *Advance copies now available in our NYC bookshops. Pre-order link in bio.* With the unstoppable advance of global capitalism, the ‘Heimatlosigkeit’ (homelessness) which twentieth-century European philosophers spoke of, and which Heidegger declared had become the ‘destiny of the world’, is set to become ever more pathological in its consequences. But rather than dreaming of an impossible return to ‘Heimat’, Yuk Hui argues that today thinking must start out from the standpoint of becoming-homeless. Drawing on the philosophies of Gilbert Simondon, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, and Jan Patočka alongside the thought of Kitaro Nishida, Keiji Nishitani, Yoshimi Takeuchi, and Mou Zongsan among others, Yuk Hui envisions a project of a post-European thinking. If Asia and Europe are to devise new modes of confronting capitalism, technology, and planetarisation, this must take place neither through a neutralization of differences nor a return to tradition, but through an ‘individuation of thinking’ between East and West. Cover Image: Florian Pumhösl, Lithosphere (Section 1) [detail], 2023. @digitalobjects @urbanomicdotcom #YukHui #PostEurope #Heimat

Marina van Zuylen’s THE PLENITUDE OF DISTRACTION now available in French L’ART D’ÊTRE DISTRAIT : SE PERDRE POUR SE TROUVER Éditions Flammarion, 2024 Join the author for a special book launch event Thursday, April 25, 19h at Librairie Gallimard – 15, boulevard Raspail, 75007 Paris #marinavanzuylen @flammarionlivres @librairiegallimard

SAVE THE DATE OMNICIDE II: An evening trial of riddles, poetry, and a new game with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh & Reza Negarestani Saturday, January 27, 7PM Miguel Abreu Gallery 36 Orchard St., NYC Sequence Press and Urbanomic are pleased to host Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh and Reza Negarestani for a conversation and book launch of Mohaghegh’s recently released, “Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception.” In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal heat of the desert, the cycle of Omnicide is closed with a philosophy of doom and deception, plunging headlong into the inevitable, the fatal, and the infinite. There are certain games which can only be played at the end of worlds: their stakes are impossibly higher; their rules are unique to the collapse of all things. The author will be joined by fellow philosopher Reza Negarestani for a sequence of spirited reflections on those apocalyptic poetries of the Middle East found throughout the book—calling up the voices of Adonis, Joyce Mansour, Forugh Farrokhzad, Ibrahim al-Koni, Mahmoud Darwish, and Ahmad Shamlu. Here, language starts to resemble a deck of cards; consciousness turns with the throw of dice; the mind becomes a blank domino. Through these rare challenges of thought, Mohaghegh and Negarestani will articulate an endgame that belongs to those strange plays of imagination (mirage) that surface only at the hour of pure vanishing.

JASON BAHBAK MOHAGHEGH’S “OMNICIDE II: MANIA, DOOM, AND THE FUTURE-IN-DECEPTION” Now available worldwide @urbanomicdotcom @sequencepress @mitpress **FOREWORD: In Praise of Perpetual Imminence by Robin Mackay PDF LINKED IN BIO** IMAGE: Raha Raissnia, “Mneme 13,” 2015. Gel medium, ink, compressed charcoal, image transfer and collage on paper, 12 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches (32.1 x 50.2 cm). Photo by Thomas Müller.

GABRIEL CATREN’S “PLEROMATICA, OR ELSINORE’S TRANCE” URBANOMIC / SEQUENCE Translated by THOMAS MURPHY Now available worldwide @urbanomicdotcom @sequencepress @mitpress **ON 'PLEROMATICA' AND ITS HARMONICS, PDF LINKED IN BIO** “An epoch-making book; a major intellectual event, as bold as it is brilliant. Gabriel Catren, in a break with the ‘claustrophobic interpretation’ of Kantian critique, opens up to a hypertranscendental perspectivism that affirms a multiplicity of categorial structures correlated to objective nature-cultures, a multiplicity that is accessible to a nomadic speculative subject, capable of exhibiting a ‘trans-umweltic’ mobility. The rupture with Kantian enclosure implies the possibility that the human ‘species’ does not constitute a single transcendental type; categorial multiplicity points to the possibility of inhabiting those other ‘transcendental lands’ that emerge from the impersonal field of experience. Achieving such speculative mobility is the task of the philos­ophy to come, a philosophy on a par with the widespread collapse of the post-Copernican episteme.” —Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

In advance of this late summer @urbanomicdotcom / Sequence release, a limited number of copies are now available in our bookshops. Webstore pre-sales will begin in July. “Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception” Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh A series of controlled combustions fuelled by fragments drawn from the poetry and literature of the Middle-East, “Omnicide II” introduces us to a new cast of manic visionaries, from the Selemaniac to the Crystallomaniac, the Bibliomaniac to the Aeromaniac. “Desire moves from curiosity to fascination to obsession to mania. Mania focuses on its object-objective, consigning the rest to nothingness. At the limit man releases extraordinary potentialities and also turns destructive and self-destructive. Mohaghegh does not aim to bring inner subjective structures to light; instead he identifies the objects of curiosity-obsession-mania. He explores explosions, demons, fire, books, blackness, drowning, headlessness, sleeplessness, blindness, wind, silence, nakedness, idols, scars, caves, imperfection, pain, blood, weeping, ruins, claws, deserts and many more.” —Alphonso Lingis

To celebrate the imminent release of Gabriel Catren’s PLEROMATICA, OR ELSINORE'S TRANCE, Sequence Press and Urbanomic will be hosting a workshop @casa.sao.roque TransLatin Diagonals with Gabriel Catren, Amy Ireland, Maya B. Kronic, and Thomas Murphy Casa São Roque – Centro de Arte São Roque da Lameira 2092, Porto Sunday, June 18, 2023 5–7pm *Info. linked in bio. This event will not be live-streamed or recorded* A number of extraordinary Latin American works express and reflect upon the unanticipated impact of indigenous cultures and the flora and fauna of the ‘new’ continent upon its colonizers, the force of this high-tension encounter placing their relation to language, representation, environment and subject at an oblique angle to the recognized canon of European modernism. In PLEROMATICA, Gabriel Catren (Argentina, b. 1975) confronts the most fundamental challenges of modernity as dramatised by canonical figures including Mallarmé, Joyce, Hegel and Fichte, in a major philosophical work that kicks against postmodern nihilism in a style that digests the ventriloquizing transpoetics of Leminski, the neobaroque queerness of Néstor Perlongher (Argentina, 1949–1992), the cannibalism of Oswald De Andrade (Brazil, 1890–1954) and the startling imagery of Lezama Lima. In this post-Grothendieckian reconfiguration of transcendental philosophy, a ‘phenoumenodelic’ trip to the far side of ‘speculative realism’ yields not so much a treatise as a Babelian ‘lanjaguar’ infused with the perspectivist Amazonian anthropology of Eduardo Viveiros De Castro and the ‘vivência’ and ‘razonabilidad’ of Latin American thought. Image: Alfredo Londaibere, Untitled, ca. 2000. Photo by Erica Vogel. #Anthropology #Argentina #Brazil #Colonialism #Decolonialism #Jungle #LatinAmerica #Reason #Trans- #Transmodernity