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Collapse Vol. I: Numerical Materialism

September 2006
Editor: Robin Mackay
Associate Editors: Ray Brassier, Michael Carr
Paperback 115x175mm, 288pp. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies
ISBN 978-0-9553087-0-4

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Related:

Collapse Vol. II
   Collapse Vol. III
   Collapse Vol. IV
   Collapse Vol. V
   Collapse Vol. VI



About this Volume

Collapse is an unprecedented collection of work by leading practitioners in diverse fields of enquiry. Conceived as a meticulously compiled and compendious miscellany, a grimoire or instruction manual without referent, as a delirious carnival of sobriety, Collapse operates its war against good sense not through romantic flight but through the formal insanity secreted in the depths of the rational ("the rational is not reasonable").

Collapse aims to force unforeseen conjunctions, singular correspondences, and unnatural cross-fertilisations; to diagram abstract regions as yet unnamed.

The first volume of Collapse investigates the nature and philosophical uses of number through interviews with philosophers scientists and mathematicians, essays on the mathematics of intensity, terrorism, the occult and information theory, and graphical works of multiplicity.

The print edition of this volume is now sold out; the volume will soon be available in electronic form from the downloads page.


Contents

ROBIN MACKAY
Editorial Introduction [download as PDF]
ALAIN BADIOU
Philosophy, Sciences, Mathematics (Interview)
GREGORY CHAITIN
Epistemology as Information Theory
REZA NEGARESTANI
The Militarization of Peace
MATTHEW WATKINS
Prime Evolution (Interview)
"INCOGNITUM"
Introduction to ABJAD
NICK BOSTROM
Existential Risk (Interview)
THOMAS DUZER
On the Mathematics of Intensity
KEITH TILFORD
Crowds
NICK LAND
Qabbala 101

Related Links

Gregory Chaitin
Eliminative Culinarism (Reza Negarestani)
Number Theory and Physics Archive (Matthew Watkins)
Future of Humanity Institute (Nick Bostrom)
Anaximandrake (Thomas Duzer)
Metastable Equilibrium (Keith Tilford)

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