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Traditionally aesthetics has been associated with phenomenal experience, human apprehension and an appreciation of beauty—the domains in which human cognition is rendered finite. What is an aesthetics that might occur ‘after finitude’?
Introduction – Baylee Brits, Prudence Gibson, Amy Ireland – 7
1 Xenochronic Dispatches from the Domain of the Phonoegregore – Marc Couroux – 23
2 Art Theory/Fiction as Hyper Fly – Prudence Gibson – 39
3 Art, Philosophy, and Non-standard Aesthetics – Thomas Sutherland – 53
4 The Nuclear Sonic: Listening to Millennial Matter – Lendl Barcelos – 71
5 Geology Without Geologists – Douglas Kahn – 89
6 Folding the Soundscape :: An ad hoc Account of Synthesis – Adam Hulbert -99
7 Transfinite Fiction and the case of Jorge Luis Borges – Baylee Brits – 111
8 Picture that Cyclone – Stephen Muecke -127
9 Enter the Black Box: Aesthetic Speculations in the General Economy of Being – Laura Lotti – 139
10 The Murmur of Nothing: Mallarmé and Mathematics – Christian R. Gelder – 157
11 Accelerationism, Prometheanism and Mythotechnesis – Simon O’Sullivan – 171
12 Pink Data: Tiamaterialism and the Female Gnosis of Desire – Tessa Laird – 191
13 The Emergence of Hyperstition – Chris Shambaugh (and Maudlin Cortex) – 203
‘The Krakatoan Chimera’ – Chaim Horowitz – 204
14 Noise: An Ontolog y of the Avant-garde – Amy Ireland – 217
After After Finitude: An Afterword – Justin Clemens – 229
Editors 237
Contributors 239
NOTES FOR TEACHING - David Haines 