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MLA 2027 Special Session Proposal--Tales of the Late Human: Extinction, Disposability, and the End-Times Subject

What does it mean to survive under late capitalism—and for whom does survival remain possible? This panel takes extinction not as a future horizon but as a present condition: a slow, stratified process already embedded in economic structures, urban environments, and narrative form. Bringing together and bridging work from literary and cultural studies, earth system science, and science and…

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CFP: Capitalism of Late Humans: Confronting Extinction

Deadline for Submissions: March 21, 2026 Organizer: Dr. Amit Ray/Rochester Institute of Technology Contact: axrgsl at rit dot edu This panel explores capitalism’s role in accelerating human extinction. How do late-stage economic systems shape ecological collapse, biopolitical abandonment, and end-times subjectivity? We welcome interdisciplinary work confronting survival, disposability, and the…

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Artificial ignorance: Understanding the role of AI in modern agnotology

Amit Ray – Rochester Institute of Technology Michael Nolan – Federation of Humanitarian Technologists https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13890 Abstract This paper explores the concept of agnotology, the deliberate production of ignorance, within the context of modern scientific endeavors, particularly in the corporate and technological sectors. It examines how industries…

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The Autocolonial Churn: Colonialism, Computation, and Contemporary Information Systems

Accepted Abstract for Social Text Special Issue on “Colonial Studies of the Platform” Amit RayRochester Institute of TechnologyAssociate Professor of [email protected] Michael NolanFederation of Humanitarian [email protected] Modern colonialism reshaped both the colonized territories and the colonial centers. Efforts to categorize and control populations…

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Agnotology in Literature, Culture, and the Arts (MLA: New Orleans Jan. 9-12, 2025)

deadline for submissions: March 20, 2024 full name / name of organization: Amit Ray/Rochester Institute of Technology contact email: [email protected] This a a call for a Special Topics Panel to be held at the Modern Language Association Conference in New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025. Agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, has emerged as a critical lens through which to…

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Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease, and Agnotology

Ray Dorsey and I published an article on “Paraquat, Parkinson’s, and Agnotology” which appeared in Movement Disorders in March of 2023. It has since been reprinted twice in The New Lede, and Arts and Opinion. The article elicited a subpoena from Swiss-headquartered Syngenta Corporation (a division of Chinese-owned Sinochem) regarding pending lawsuits against them from Parkinson’s patients. It is…

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#agnotology

This is what extinction feels like.

A melting planet, an accelerating (accelerant) species. Hyper nationalism and ideological militancy… I mean what’s not to like about a species that toys with its own extinction, as it demands growth on every front that can be monetized and brought into financial logic? Our very extinction seems to be available for extraction and profit—a growth industry that ends in collapse. Ours is a species in…

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#autocolonialism #precarity

Capitalism and War unleash human biology in recombinant and hybrid ways. In this sense the human begins to actively restructure itself. And, militaries and companies are the ones that are exploring such processes most intensively. Such invisibility begets all kinds of trauma, deformation, and amnesia-cal qualities in a species toto. It boggles my mind. This is happening. Much has likely already…

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#autocolonialism

Capitalism of late humans

#talesofthelatehuman

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#autocolonialism

Capitalism of late humans

#talesofthelatehuman

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#autocolonialism

Note to A and E, 3/12/20

A thought. Please indulge me.

CRISPR is derived from a bacterial mechanism that provides immunity from viruses by using RNA to cut and paste snippets of the viral attacker into the genetic code of the bacterium itself.

There are large scale endeavors to use genetic editing strategies to engineer responses to actual viruses. The arguments for expediency and exigency abound.

That these…

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AcceleRants

Accelerators and accelerants, recombinant and chaotic. Synthetic life emerges from this bacterial animal which, having colonized everything, learns to colonize anew. It grows, it devours, it blooms, it dies. But not without giving birth to other forms of life, intentionally and otherwise. The Xenobots arrive.

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Language is leaving us...

Language is leaving us…

I’ve lost interest in maintaining anything other than spoken voice—presence. Writing seems like failure.

The rate of extraction of our linguistic domains, written and spoken, feels like extinction to me. Nothing else. Those at the top, we apex predators, best flee the earth or hack our own genomes and biomes to give ourselves, up and over, to other possible worlds, living and dead. We at the top…

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For students at the Albertus Universität in Königsberg, anthropology was likely to be their first, if not only, exposure to Kant's thought"

For students at the Albertus Universität in Königsberg, anthropology was likely to be their first, if not only, exposure to Kant’s thought”

“If we now ask whether the human species can be considered a good or a bad race (it can be called a race only when one thinks of it as a species of rational beings on earth, compared to those rational beings on other planets, sprung as a multitude of creatures from one demiurge), then I must confess that there is not much to boast about. Nevertheless, anyone who considers human behavior not only…

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Naked news, fake-d news, or "something else entirely"?

Naked news, fake-d news, or “something else entirely”?

“Was a story selected for its statistical prominence among news organs, or because a personalization algorithm picked it out for us? If the selection was based on statistics, then which statistics—the number of mentions of the story, the authority of the news outlets promoting it, or something else entirely?” Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society (2015) I’m thinking, erm, something else entirely.…

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Gone. Forgotten.

Upgrade, feverish Newness begets what we have found: nothingness. We could never be present in such expectations of a future, predicated upon nearly instantaneous forms of obsolescence. The past and future enfold upon this non-existent now; a now which is forgetting, forgotten. Gone. Absent: Present. The late human sleepsasleep, wakesawake, shuns extinct, shuns. We thought we were human as we…

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