Alessandro Sbordoni

A new review of the latest album by Japanese hip-hop trio Dos Monos (@dosmonostres) with a critical reevaluation of Fredric Jameson's notion of pastiche in late capitalist culture by our Editor Alessandro Sbordoni (@A_Sbordoni). bluelabyrinths.com/2024/06/13/mus…

An excerpt of my conversation with @MattBluemink a few weeks ago at @TheGildedAcorn for the book launch of my book "Semiotics of the End", where we discussed anti-hauntology and Sinofuturism, where non-Western cultures can add something new to the original debate with @xenogothic

Descent into the Maelstrom: A Note on Deterritorialization and Anti-Hauntology xenogothic.com/2024/04/29/des…

1/This week on &&& Tripleampersand we are publishing "Anti-Hauntology & the Semiotics of the End" by Alessandro Sbordoni. IMAGE: After Boards of Canada, Bryan Olson, 2018

An excerpt from my book on the anti-hauntology debate hosted on @BlueLabyrinths and @xenogothic in 2021, where I talk about the electronic music of Chinese artists like 33EMYBW and Gooooose, and why hyperpop was never really anti-hauntological... tripleampersand.org/anti-hauntolog…

"Why must it always be a terrible end?’ asks Immanuel Kant in The End of All Things. To which the reply, the Kantian joke: because the present time is execrable." An excerpt from my book "Semiotics of the End" (Institute of Network Cultures, 2023). epochemagazine.org/70/semiotics-o…

Issue 70 hot off the digi-presses! With writing on theater, time, syllogisms, and the end. Read it on any internet enabled device in your vicinity~ epochemagazine.org/issues/70/

Alessandro Sbordoni (@A_Sbordoni) on the contemporary boredom at the end of the world. Today, the apocalypse is finished. Forty years after the end, it is the apocalypse of the boring. Read the first essay from "Semiotics of the End" on Blue Labyrinths: bluelabyrinths.com/2021/10/13/sem…

Alessandro Sbordoni (@A_Sbordoni) on anti-hauntology and the imagination of the future. This is an excerpt from the book launch of "Semiotics of the End" organized by the Institute of Network Culture at the beginning of the year. To watch the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=90j87m…

Matt Bluemink (@MattBluemink) on experimental music and its revolutionary power at the book launch of "Semiotics of the End" in Amsterdam. Join us for the London book launch this Saturday at The Gilded Acorn on the LSE campus. Book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/network-noti…

Alessandro Sbordoni (@A_Sbordoni) on Frank Zappa, remixes, and consumer culture at the book launch of "Semiotics of the End" in Amsterdam. Join us for the London book launch this Saturday at The Gilded Acorn on the LSE campus. Book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/network-noti…

NON: Semiotics of the End: The Backrooms via non.copyriot.com/semiotics-of-t… The dreams of the end are over. Yet, the nightmares never end. As the comments posted below the eerie images of the Backrooms also show, many people have been dreaming about places like the Backrooms much before the original 4chan post. It is hard not to think about Carl Gustav Jung’s blood-filled dreams and visions of war, a few months before the beginning of WWI. The exception is that, today, the collective unconscious has taken the form of collective informatization.1 Nightmares have taken the form of zeros and ones.

Join us for the book launch of "Semiotics of the End" at The Gilded Acorn bookshop on the LSE campus on Saturday the 23rd of March. We will talk about semiocapitalism, anti-hauntology, and drink some wine. You can book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/.../network-no…….

Join us for the book launch of @A_Sbordoni's "Semiotics of the End" at The Gilded Acorn bookshop on the LSE campus on Saturday the 23rd of March at 16:00. We will talk about semiocapitalism, anti-hauntology, and drink some wine. Book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/.../network-no…...

An extract from @A_Sbordoni's book "Semiotics of the End". Join us for the book launch at The Gilded Acorn bookshop on the LSE campus in London on Saturday the 23rd of March at 16:00. Book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/.../network-no…... bluelabyrinths.com/2024/03/14/sem…

An extract from my latest book "Semiotics of the End". Join @MattBluemink and me for the book launch at The Gilded Acorn bookshop on the LSE campus in London on Saturday the 23rd of March at 16:00. Book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/.../network-no…... bluelabyrinths.com/2024/03/14/sem…

La mia traduzione di "Extinction Internet" di Geert Lovink su Notzine #1 (@NeroOnTheory). "Extinction Internet non è semplicemente una fantasia apocalittica della tecnologia digitale che un giorno sarà spazzata via..." testnot.neroeditions.com/extinction-int…

In times when capitalism claims its monopoly on both dystopia and utopia, the #solarpunk genre seems to offer an alternative. But is this really the best of both worlds? Or something else? The cultural critic and journalist @A_Sbordoni takes stock: berlinergazette.de/solarpunk-as-p…

Work on Ultrablack of Music Vol.2 started. Another collaboration of Becoming & NON incl. Kenji Siratori, Eldrich Priest, Gary J. Shipley, Eugene Thacker, me, Akira Palais, Lain, Zafer, Stefan Paulus, Holger Schulze, Obsolete Capitalism, Alessandro Sbordoni, Giorgi Vachnadze, Alberto Ricca, Jan Heintz, Andrea Taeggi etc. Ultrablack seems to be the sound of formlessness, as black sound it takes on a form as a something, which is also a nothing – to prevent anything from belonging to music. Black is the something that is also nothing, it has to get liquid and catastrophic, ultrablack, a nothing that cannot be adequately grasped in the precinct of music. Ultrablack is the nihilistisc abyss.

Ah, so Žižek actually read my book and cited me slavoj.substack.com/p/figures-of-t…