{"product_id":"homo-catastrophicus","title":"Homo Catastrophicus","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Homo Catastrophicus Louis Armand explores the agonism of an emergent Algorithmic State Apparatus. Its genealogy traverses the constellation of aesthetic \u0026amp; political avant-gardes of the long 20th century \u0026amp; the terminal shock of posthumanism. Technology has always posed a challenge to notions of human subjectivity. Yet this challenge cannot be resolved dialectically, as a rapprochement between the human \u0026amp; non-human, since technology must be understood as defining in advance what it means to be human, conditioning the very possibility of Òhuman being.Ó\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure of Homo Catastrophicus is the historical ÒsubjectÓ turned on its head Ð a theoretical antipode to the dialectic of modernity \u0026amp; the ÒNo FutureÓ conspiracy of Capitalist Realism. If capitalist realism inscribes history as crisis Ð as a discourse perpetually anachronistic to itself, Òout-of-joint,Ó always before its time yet perpetually after the event Ð then Homo Catastrophicus evokes history's schizoid chaos agent. Homo Catastrophicus is not a descent of man for modern times, it is an ontology of catastrophic being grasped through an antagonism with every possible world-view: ideology's doppelganger. Homo Catastrophicus is the alterego of the humanist fallacy Ð an inhumanity that dreams the apotheosis of civilisation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louis Armand","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44929038745761,"sku":"9781916541078","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/m2q5rr4-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1747591202","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/homo-catastrophicus","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}