Meta-Futures
<p>A meta-move is the diagonalization of the existing move set. A play outside the existing frame of action that has run its course by solving problems so efficiently that it hasn’t realized these problems don’t exist anymore. A move that manages to break the “path dependency” haunting all cultures (or software adaptations). Rather than blindly optimizing the current systemic trajectories and entrusting our hopes to the supposedly alien feedback dynamics outside the Human, it is possible to find a “meta-game of every other game” and unlock a new abstract space from within: from inside the game that simply has to be played in a better way (and is searching for new meta-players).</p> <p>If this doesn’t resonate with the deadlock of Modernity (as a historical event and not periodization before post-modernity), nothing will. Even if we’ve slowly come to realise that we live in a process reality, we haven’t been able to update this fact into a coherent set of parameters, into a systemic framework that will push us towards a new attractor. That will enable us to find a new plethora and save us from within. Figures like Benjamin Bratton are right to point out that our time calls for a “radically different sort of philosophy” that will once and for all break with the fetishes of post-modernity and/or the confusions surrounding the Human. That will see itself in the same way the crow sees the sparrow…</p>
Issue Editor: Maks Valenčič, Tisa Troha
Contributors: Jonathan Ratcliffe, Miroslav Griško, Bosco García, Timotej Prosen, Maks Valenčič, Tisa Troha, Subset of Theoretical Practice, Allan M. Hillani, Gabriel Tupinambá, J.-P. Caron, J. Millie, Maikel da Silveira, Rafael Pedroso, Rafael Saldanha, Reza Naderi, Renzo, Barbe, Tiago Guidi, Yasha Shulkin, Yuan Yao
Editor-in-Chief: Tjaša Pogačar
Editors: Andrej Škufca, Maks Valenčič, Tisa Troha
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ISBN: 25362194
ISSN: 2536-2194