The SM panel discussion over at Foreign Objekt is now available to view in entirety here

https://youtu.be/uVz3YKaoZc4

It was a bracing, challenging but also thoroughly enjoyable exchange.

Panelists: David Roden, Amanda Beech, Martin Rosenberg, Romina Wainberg, Corey McCall, and Simon Sellars.


Moderated by: Setareh Taghvaei
Organized and Curated by: Sepideh Majidi
Video Edited by: Shaum Mehra

Link to presentations:
Full Presentation: https://www.foreignobjekt.com/snuff-m...​

Amanda Beech presentation and text: https://www.foreignobjekt.com/snuff-m...​
Simon Sellars presentation: https://www.foreignobjekt.com/snuff-m...​
Corey McCall presentation and text: https://www.foreignobjekt.com/snuff-m...​
Romina Wainberg presentation and text: https://www.foreignobjekt.com/snuff-m...​
Martin E. Rosenberg presentation and text: https://www.foreignobjekt.com/snuff-m...​

In David Roden’s Snuff Memories, an ancient time-war ripples through a demon-haunted cosmos as its characters systematically expunge their humanity. Their ‘posthuman becoming’ pre-empts any possible ethics or sane politics. Instead, desire is weaponized from a bleak, inhuman future. Bodies replicate and unzip across the novella’s pornographic vignettes, remade in erotic rituals of mutation, death, and pain.

Snuff Memories explores themes common to the discourses of New Realism, Posthumanism, Accelerationism, and Weird fiction: the cultivation of general intellect, the storming of heaven, our complicity with alien intelligences and uncontrollable technologies, the possibility of an ethics of ‘becoming inhuman’ in a world without transcendental norms.

In this seminar five contemporary thinkers and writers--Amanda Beech, Martin Rosenberg, Romina Wainberg, Corey McCall, and Simon Sellars--consider the themes and questions thrown up by the novella in dialogue with its author.