Exercises in Xenosophy: Making Kin-Allies among Aliens and Cyborgs against Capital
Making Allied-Kin between aliens and Cyborgs against Capital
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Accelerationism; Alienation; Xenofeminism; Cosmopolitics; Capital.Abstract
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The following article intends to elaborate an exercise of (counter-)mapping the cosmopolitical space of possibilities, suggesting unexpected modes of forming alliances in it or, to put it otherwise through Donna Haraway, other modes of making kin. Some guiding threads are chosen in this non-linear trajectory to xenologically explore this cosmopolitical space of possibilities: the issue of totality and transcendentality in face of the capitalogenically induced intrusion of Gaia; the dialectics of alienation/emancipation; and acceleration as a political project. Only having partial conclusions, the text seeks to chart new ways of thinking by moving across diverse ideas and authors: a strategy here called ‘xenosophy’, the alien or foreign thought-process. It still matters here to think how a politics of acceleration (as a reorientation of the displacement vectors in the cosmo-techno-political state-space) and a rational practice, as self-alienation and alienation-for-(it)self, may help in the wider exercise of constructing worlds beyond this one, which could be synthesized under the alias of Capital.
Keywords: Accelerationism; Alienation; Xenofeminism; Cosmopolitics; Capital.
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