A provocative and stimulating manifesto by Benjamin Bratton that promotes new ways of inhabiting (and artificialising) the planet, facing the
environmental, economic and social crisis that radically belies the possibility of a continuation of the current globalised capitalist model.
Benjamin H. Bratton (born 1968, Los Angeles, lives and works in La Jolla, San Diego, CA) is a theorist whose work spans
philosophy, art and
design. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Director of The Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. He is also Professor of Digital Design at The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. His research is situated at the intersections of political & social theory, emerging computational media & infrastructure, and interdisciplinary design methodologies.