Models of Extinction
<p>Extinction is nowhere and everywhere at the same time, as it becomes a part of our doomcore era.</p> <p>Extinction is real, even if it needs to make itself happen. Some cognitive infrastructures don’t have the capacity to price extinction in their models, while others empty its meaning by making it yet another political concept.</p> <p>Extinction has its own “temporal in-between, the smallest memory buffers and signal delays.” Similarly to the eternal drift between capitalism and its models, it has the capacity for both self-affirmation and self-transformation.</p> <p>Extinction is virtual and not actual, i.e. something that has to remain in the state of an open secret. Its potentiality is a thing of disputation, a paraconsistent fact oscillating between truth and falsity.</p> <p>Extinction is an elusive concept. It has the kind of generality and all-encompassiveness that doesn’t really help us understand (or confront) it. For some, extinction has already happened, as time has ended in the heat death of the universe…</p>
Issue Editor: Maks Valenčič, Tisa Troha
Contributors: Milan M. Ćirković, Enea Kavčič, Thomas Moynihan, Federico Nieto, Peter Wolfendale, Tim Linward
Editor-in-Chief: Tjaša Pogačar
Editors: Andrej Škufca, Tisa Troha, Maks Valenčič
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ISBN: 25362194
ISSN: 2536-2194