This September, in celebration of our 10th publication, Becoming Press presents: “ Πάμε Βενετία” — a hang-out and conference featuring many authors and collaborators of Becoming Press, in Venice, Italy. ✱✱✱

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Exocapitalism European Tour

✱ about

Exocapitalism marks the next chapter in the story of two researchers who have grown tired with a self-replicating discourse that seems to spiral endlessly only to arrive back where it was. With all the relevant sensibilities and love, discourse on capitalism can feel a bit... Cage-y, dingy, cavernous but poorly lit and damp. Even progressive discourse produces a kind of circle-of-pain—a hamster wheel—which you pour your life into and nothing changes. The psychoanalytical jaguar might be less confused if it could understand the concept of glass. Jaguars can run on the walls of their enclosure, in a momentous circle, no different to those show-girlies in the Motorbike pits of New Mexico or Tong Setan. It is not unlike the torlauf of a turntable stylus as it tracks its way along the vinyl cliff, only to suddenly clip a scratch and fly out of the groove; as the needle pops into the crevice, it is thrown back into the previous groove, where it will loop-untoward-death like an ox-bow lake.
If this is the task which lies before authors Poliks & Trillo, then Exocapitalism is the first attempt to jog the wheel, or shift the needle, to break out of the loop. As a book it is not a totalizing philosophical work about capital, neither is it a deep excavation of some underlying, string-like particle buried deep within us—and it is absolutely not a fantastical exploration of mind-control aliens extracting our lifeblood. This book is a rigorous attempt to massage the discourse, or to smooth out some bumps and contradictions which sometimes seem to have been carved into the world deliberately. This work is not theoretically estranged from Marx, Baudrillard or even Land, but it tracks a different path entirely, and attempts to build, from the ground up, new theories and concepts that account for the ever-more-nebulous and chaotic, economic, financial and social phenomena of our multiplicitous Vernetzte Welten.

✱ program

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The book will be available for purchase at all venues.

Tuesday 9th September

18:00

London, GB

King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS
Macadam Building, Embankment Room (MB-1.1.4)
Registration Link coming soon

Alfie Bown ^[host] & Marek Poliks ^[author]

Monday 15th September

18:00

Venice, IT

bruno, Calle lunga S. Barnaba,
Dorsoduro 2729, 30123 Venezia
part of “Πάμε Βενετία”—The Venice Conference
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