Aesthetics After Finitude

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'?PhilosophyaestheticsFront Cover 1Series 3Title Page 4Copyright 5Contents 6Introduction 8Xenochronic Dispatches from the Domain of the Phonoegregore 24Art Theory/Fiction as Hyper Fly 40Art, Philosophy, and Non-standard Aesthetics 54The Nuclear Sonic: Listening to Millennial Matter 72Geology Without Geologists 90Folding the Soundscape :: An ad hoc Account of Synthes\is 100Transfinite Fiction and the case of Jorge Luis Borges 112Picture that Cyclone 128Enter the Black Box 140The Murmur of Nothing:Mallarmé and Mathematics 158Accelerationism, Prometheanismand Mythotechnesis 172Pink Data: Tiamaterialism and theFemale Gnosis of Desire 192The Emergence of Hyperstition 204‘The Krakatoan Chimera’ 205Noise: An Ontology of the Avant-garde 218After After Finitude: An Afterword 230EDITORS 238CONTRIBUTORS 240Rear Cover 243