Term 2 Paper Draft

Working title: De-singularities

As human culture on this planet appears to be reaching a critical historical point, there exists a possibility to change the terms of our engagement with the cosmos in which we inhabit. Computer scientists have long theorised that we are approaching a technological singularity, whereby a machine intelligence will introduce a paradigm shift of unparalleled proportions into human existence. This type of thinking is rife with a fatalism that seems to preclude any sort of intervention in this destiny. This form of thinking can also be found throughout texts and work regarding the anthropocene. Within it lies forms of thinking that seem to conclude the finality of the destruction of the planet, and the best we can do at this point is to inspire sympathy with those on the front lines of this environmental catastrophe. In this text I will highlight historical and cultural precedence for alternatives to the control systems that dictate the morphological arena of contemporary thought, and through these examples, offer notions on how these concepts can be used in artistic practice as a salvo against the recent political developments in the western world. The construction of time that stems from the early capitalist systems of western europe to this day dictates the manner in which space is still perceived in western nations. As if there is an implied telos to the nation state, in the supposed greatness of an arbitrary geographical boundary born from bloodshed, institutional racism and colonial theft. Within the racist political right, in typical hubris, exists this dream of a temporal action where the future becomes more like past and less like the present. In the early stages of systems theory