UFO
UFO is not a university in a traditional sense—or in any sense. It is a model, continuously revising what a university is or could be. Its goal is to act as a transformative vehicle, capable of moving through impossible spaces and concepts. It operates with complexity, computation, dynamics, ontology, and intelligence, which form the bedrock of the transformative formations that emerge through its behavior and characteristics.
We are living in a time when existing structures and organizations are being stripped down. Their true face is exposed: a lack of care for humanity at their core, built entirely on power and struggle. Our task begins with recognizing this, and understanding ourselves as a force capable of transforming struggle into a different kind of power.
We have, historically, given our power away to a small few. But that no longer makes sense—these figures no longer carry any real organizational value. What is emerging is the possibility for any character to rise into such positions. Not the same positions, but new configurations—new forms. This opens up a global scale of resistance, because the mediatory connections that once held power in place are dissolving through the mutation of existing structures. Not their total destruction, but a selective removal and addition—a mutation that turns them into something far more horrible.
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Laboratories Involved in the Residency:
Posthuman Studies Lab (Foreign Objekt)
Posthuman Art Laboratory (Foreign Objekt)
Complex and Dynamic Systems Lab (Foreign Objekt)
▪️𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐢𝐝𝐢: 𝐒𝐞𝐩 𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡
Complexity-Probability-Posthumanism
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/post/complexity-probability-posthumanism-symposium-and-laboratory-framework-by-sepideh-majidi
▪️𝐑𝐚𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫: 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Posthuman Pragmatism: Selecting Power / The Human: From Subversion to Compulsion
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/post/ray-brassier-posthuman-pragmatism-selecting-power-the-human-from-subversion-to-compulsion
▪️𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨: 𝐒𝐞𝐩 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡
Probability and Decision Theory
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/post/anna-longo-probability-and-decision-theory
▪️𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐧: 𝐒𝐞𝐩 𝟏𝟖𝐭𝐡
Technological Anti-Holism and the Thinking of the Outside
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/post/speculative-and-unbounded-posthumanism-david-roden
▪️𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐄 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠: 𝐒𝐞𝐩 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡
Cosmopolitics and Post-Human Aesthetics: The Case of Marcel Duchamp
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/post/martin-e-rosenberg-cosmopolitics-and-post-human-aesthetics-the-case-of-marcel-duchamp
▪️𝐑𝐞𝐳𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢: Oct 𝟐3𝐭𝐡
The Time of a Scandal: Induction, Memory and Experience
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/post/reza-negarestani-the-time-of-a-scandal-induction-memory-and-experience
