ARMEN AVANESSIAN

Miamification

Max Bach (Ed.)

How might we conceive of comradeship during a time that is increasingly predetermined by algorithms and governed by techno-politics? Austrian philosopher and political theorist Armen Avanessian chronicles his stay in Miami Beach during Art Basel as an experiment in writing about our times of individual optimization and digitization. An inventory of the self in the second person—and a philosopher’s reflections in the infinity pool of the art world—this book reckons with a new time complex as well as the aesthetics and infrastructures of the contemporary. Can we advance from conditions of financial feudalism and climate change to a progressive poetics of the digital? The city of tropical noir becomes a case study for a geopolitics and economics of the future: Miami vision, Miami vacation, Miami fiction, and Miamification. Avanessian is recognized for his teaching and fellowships at the Berlin Free School, Columbia University, and Yale, among others. His work on speculative realism and accelerationism in art and philosophy has found a wide audience beyond academia.

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