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SUM-13-WEB-single
A web single that keeps the earth/outside problem circulating in later editorial and publication form.
Archive condition
The page uses the canonical extracted text as its reading layer while preserving the original file paths as the archival source of record.
Core idea
The page matters because geotrauma survives through editors, translators, and symposia as well as through primary statements. Transmission is part of the concept's afterlife.
Framing documents work by organizing access and circulation. They turn difficult earth-writing into a relay rather than a sealed monolith.
That matters because the outside is not only a theme but also a publication problem: how inhuman material is made legible without domesticating it.
How to read this text
Read the framing choices carefully. Editorial mediation is what makes this page belong in the section.
Track how public circulation changes, but does not erase, the infernal and geological pressure of the materials being introduced.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 78
Though they do not lead to the radical unsettling of human thought and self-conception promised by the encounter with a future AI or alien life-forms, encounters with past intelligence unearth what is radically human and how to comprehend intelligence outside known references [Fig.
Definition · paragraph 44
Looking out at the misty lights, a series of questions arises: What is there to add to the legacy of geotrauma, invasions from the future and inhuman subterranean forces? In what ways can it be de- veloped into new land which would take the past into consideration in a more direct way?
Definition · paragraph 16
Two extreme temporal models for dynamic development already invite to develop this thought into a critical approach: invasions from the future rebuilding the pres- ent in their own image, and geotrauma, the speeding up of geological processes to reveal the scream of the earth and the wound inflicted on cosmic indifference by the emergence of terrestrial life.
Definition · paragraph 111
MB All the Ccru work on the deep past and geotrauma is about the inhuman past. The historical past seems to have gained more impor- tance both in your own and in Nick’s more recent work. AG Probably a part of it has to do with the engagement with intel- lectual history.
History · paragraph 20
1839 DISSONANCE Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia has already shown how the legacy of geotrauma and invasions from the future can be used on the distant hu- man past and be mediated through writing as a method as well as a question of inquiry. Yet, the understanding of archaeology as ‘hidden writing’ seems problematic.
Appears in sections
Geotrauma and the Outside Primary section
Molten earth, Barker, the inhuman Outside, and the archive's geological imagination.