Peter Heft is a PhD student at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. His interests orbit accelerationism, time travel, and futurism, fascism and utopia. His current course of study follows questions of energeticism and materialism—the crux between the two being most fully explicated by Freud, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari, and Negarestani, producing a genealogical account of the so-called ‘libidinal materialism’ and impersonal desire as the ontology undergirding both speculative realism and capitalism as a process.
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Stellar Bile, Terrestrial Extraction & Carrie Blast Furnaces
INTRODUCTION The following analyses are hypothetical entries into Karen Pinkus’ Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, a dictionary which itself ought to be read as a work in perpetual progress.[1] Drawing upon Pinkus’ work—cross-referencing, if you will—I want to introduce two entries (themselves, necessarily works in perpetual progress) into Pinkus’ registry; one site-specific, one ‘generic’: “Carrie Furnace”… Read More »