Une sélection de documents produits par l'« organisation semi-fictionnelle » International Necronautical Society (INS) fondée par l'artiste et écrivan Tom McCarthy et le philosophe Simon Critchley.
On August 7, 1999, Tom McCarthy founded the International Necronautical Society (INS) with a public presentation of the "Founding Manifesto," a touchstone that would inform the organization's proceedings for years to come. Composed of official committee members and illicit "agents," the INS harks back to early twentieth-century avant-gardes, producing declarations, reports, public hearings, broadcasts, and research documents, as well as orchestrating more covert media infiltrations, all governed by the objective, set out in the "Founding Manifesto," of mapping, entering, and occupying the space of death through literature, philosophy, culture, and technology.
The Mattering of Matter is a collection of INS documents produced between 1999 and 2010. This edited selection of texts reflects the INS's development, through both internal bureaucratic changes and its ever-growing repertoire of references, all of which work towards their ultimate goal of constructing a necronautical "craft" with which to propound and escalate the overall INS project.
Tom McCarthy (né en 1969 à Londres, où il vit et travaille) est un artiste et un romancier britannique. Il est secrétaire général de l'
International Necronautical Society, une organisation semi-fictionnelle d'avant-garde, et a publié de nombreux romans et essais.
Remainder, son premier ouvrage, a reçu le prix Believer Book en 2008.
Voir aussi
Holding Pattern (édité par Tom McCarthy).
Simon Critchley (né en 1960) est un
philosophe anglais. Son travaille embrasse l'histoire de la philosophie, la théorie politique, la religion, l'éthique, l'esthétique, la littérature et le théâtre.
