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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Thomas Mical
Posthuman Apparatuses with Alien Durations
This theory-research work has been a slow process of burrowing through philosophy of time, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of technology to find a hidden core. As such, this research project is aligned with the Posthuman Time Lab aspirations. This research in progress will form an urgent trans-disciplinary book project with Springer Nature (India). The research began with the initial Time Lab readings in non-holism in technology and temporal delays in art. From here their intersection in time-consciousness becomes a deformable lattice or mesh. This elaboration is extended to a synthetic Posthuman theoretical framework of the delaminated apparatus, dissembled from prior apparatus theory, and drawn across a range of neuro-technologies (highlighted in recent posthuman films). Posthuman technologies assume a reciprocating mechanism of non-linear time. From Apparatus Theory we seek hidden attunement to a posthuman theory of time called Alien Duration. This incorporates Husserlian time-consciousness, the Guattarian machinic unconscious, as well as the Lovecraft cosmology of infinite universes - which inserts madness into representation, exposing traces of emergence in forms of nonlinear time (time loops, and time coiling and uncoiling) as alien. The alien sentience in the unconscious time-consciousness deforms the vitalist modes of duration through a process of recursion – durations being those pools of discrete autonomous mobile-sections or choronotopes, aggregated outside a singular subjectivity like the dream-stacking in Inception or the Influencing-Machine in early Psychoanalysis. The final act is the refinement of the Alien Duration informed by writings on alien subjectivity, abductive logic, and Brassier’s Alien Theory.