Xenoslavia: Covert Chronologies

<p>Dear stakeholders!</p> <p>The time is out of joint. End of Trend, Narrative Collapse, Death of Melody, a decentralised and asynchronous non-trend emerges. Peli Grietzer’s1 rigorous computational formalization of vibe compiles just-in-time as TikTok teens autoencode aesthetics with unprecedented efficiency, aesthetics which remain fully backwards compatible with Tumblr moodboards and Pinterest *core collages in anticipation of the Universal Aesthetic Turing Machine. Grand or petit narratives, terminally obsolesced by their timeline lock-in, may process in parallel, but it is vibes that resonate across chronologies, quantum tunnel through timelines, diagonalizing them and computing non-linear novelty.</p> <p>At the dawn of the millenium, Hiroki Azuma abandons established world-images of the tree and the rhizome in favour of the depth-preserving database, and it is precisely philosophical, technological and corporate chronologies as databases that enable “a reading not of this history but through this history.” Now is not the time for any (Yugo)nostalgic longing after lost pasts or, arguably worse, futures—“Never in human history has nostalgia been as useless or uncomforting as it is now.” All the texts collected here are, in some way or another, firmly of the moment, propagating the present backward and forward through more or less hidden layers…</p>