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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Foreign Objekt presents an upcoming book reading and panel discussion for David Roden's newly published book, Snuff Memories (Schism Press: 2021), on March 7th, 2021, at 9am PST.
Panelists include: David Roden, Amanda Beech, Steven Shaviro, Martin Rosenberg, Romina Wainberg, Corey McCall, Simon Sellars, and MOUTH (Edia Connole & Scott Wilson)
𝗦𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗵𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗻𝗶𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹
Hosted by media theorist 𝐘𝐯𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐚
The Author of ‘Meme Dankness: Floating Glittery trash for an Economic Heresy,’ chapter in Post-Memes, eds. Alfie Bown and Daniel Bristow, Punctum Press, 2019.
Dank Deleuze
BA UC Berkeley
MA University of Chicago
Coming from a working class background to infiltrate academia from the future-- Danko Suvin writes extensively on process ontology, poetics, ecology, and abstract economies. He is the leader of Truncata Writing Workshops and the co-host of the Benzo Rehab Dungeon podcast
That intimate feeling:
.Yasaman is a multimedia artist and writer who draws inspiration from the chaos of her inner-life and the observable world to interrogate the planes of our existence.
She graduated from McGill University in 2016 with a degree in Middle East studies and is currently pursuing her MA. She is a proud survivor and former hostage of the private sector.
fakebifoberardi
@fakebifoberardi is inspired by the writings of media theorist Franco Berardi, especially in the areas of cybernetics, intellectual pessimism, chaos, and communication
@meme_love_you_long_time started her Instagram account in 2017 to create relatable content about vulnerability, desire, and confronting reductive gender expectations by using Freudian and affect theory. Now, she is an independent scholar interested in the phenomenon of fan communities, and how they engage with ‘high’ and ‘low’ theories in obvious and discreet ways.
@deleuzeanddragons
Luke is a PhD student at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia in the department of English. His research interests are the politics of aesthetics, Weird fiction and New Wave. He memes as @deleuzeanddragons on Instagram and Dungeons and Repetition 2nd Edition on Facebook. Earlier, he posted as Dungeons and Dasein, but has now joined The Potato Gang. What began as playful explorations of the potential to uncover understanding the meme format has largely turned into obscure sad posting and the difference and repetition of blankly parodic shibboleth. He is poorly read in all areas that one would expect him to have some familiarity with given the above.
@the_philosophers_meme_mk24
Philomeme is a computer scientist who started his page in high school. His primary interested are in German idealism, existentialism, and computing theory and it's implications.
grew out of a renewed interest In Continental Philosophy after and the potential for its dissemination through memes. Mostly it’s a creative outlet to make theory jokes around philosophers and their ideas. Took much of my inspiration from PhilBook( Philosophy groups and pages on Facebook, many center around Deleuze and the CCRU).
𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐱- metaspinoza
www.instagram.com/thousandgrugeaux