Robin Mackay

Robin Mackay is director of Urbanomic, has written widely on philosophy and contemporary art, and has instigated collaborative projects with numerous artists. He has also translated a number of important works of French philosophy, including Alain Badiou’s Number and Numbers, Quentin Meillassoux’s The Number and the Siren, François Laruelle’s The Concept of Non-Photography and Éric Alliez’s The Brain-Eye and Undoing the Image.

Publications

Pity is Treason

On Logic and the Theory of Science

(Translator)

Chronosis

Secrets of Creation

(Editor)

Hydroplutonic Kernow

(Editor)

Construction Site for Possible Worlds

(Editor)

After Death

(Translator)

Dialectic of Pop

(Translator)

Enchantment of the Virtual

(Translator)

Duchamp Looked At (From the Other Side) / Duchamp With (and Against) Lacan

(Translator)

Abducting the Outside

(Introduction)

Becoming-Matisse: Between Painting and Architecture

(Translator)

The Infra-World

(Translator)

Body Without Organs, Body Without Image

(Translator)

Cold War/Cold World

(Editor)

#Accelerate

(Editor)

Fanged Noumena

(Editor)

The Order of Sounds

(Translator)

Simulation, Exercise, Operations

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To Live and Think Like Pigs

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Fission

Speculative Aesthetics

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When Site Lost the Plot

(Editor)

From Decision to Heresy

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From Decision to Heresy

(Translator)

The Number and the Siren

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The Concept of Non-Photography

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The Medium of Contingency

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Chapters

A Marker

Sonic Faction

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Sonic Faction (Discussion)

Sonic Faction

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Foreword: In Praise of Perpetual …

Omnicide II

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The Residency

Secrets of Creation

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Exploring the Boundaries, Seeing it …

Secrets of Creation

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Introduction: The Madness of …

Secrets of Creation

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Introduction

Construction Site for Possible Worlds

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Translators’ Interface

Duchamp Looked At (From the Other Side) / Duchamp With (and Against) Lacan

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Underground Adventure

Hydroplutonic Kernow

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'But It's Only Late If...'

Hydroplutonic Kernow

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Editor's Introduction

Abducting the Outside

Author

What Philosophy for Today’s Science?

Enchantment of the Virtual

Translator

On a Little Phrase of Riemann's

Enchantment of the Virtual

Translator

Introduction: From Les Enjeux du mobile …

Enchantment of the Virtual

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Foreword: In Praise of Abnormal …

Omnicide

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Image Invasion

Cold War/Cold World

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The Cold War, At Home and Abroad

Cold War/Cold World

Translator

Introduction

Cold War/Cold World

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Response to Final Machine

Final and First Machine

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Ceci est Ceci

Speculative Solution

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This is This

Speculative Solution

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Outsights (Interview)

When Site Lost the Plot

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The Barker Topos

When Site Lost the Plot

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Introduction

When Site Lost the Plot

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Nick Land, Une expérience dans …

Fission

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Introduction

Simulation, Exercise, Operations

Author

Transvaluation of the Transcendental …

From Decision to Heresy

Translator

What the One Sees in the One

From Decision to Heresy

Translator

Universe Black in the Human Foundations …

From Decision to Heresy

Translator

Letter to Deleuze

From Decision to Heresy

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Leibniz Variations

From Decision to Heresy

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Variations on a Theme by Heidegger

From Decision to Heresy

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Experimental Texts, Fictions, …

From Decision to Heresy

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The Degrowth of Philosophy

From Decision to Heresy

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A Rigorous Science of Man

From Decision to Heresy

Translator

Introduction: Laruelle Undivided

From Decision to Heresy

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Introduction

#Accelerate

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The Horror In The Library

Sanity Assassin

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Translator’s Note

The Number and the Siren

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Editors’ Introduction

Fanged Noumena

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Discussion

The Medium of Contingency

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Introduction

The Medium of Contingency

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Foreword

Final Machine

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Discussion 3

Speculative Aesthetics

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Neo-Thalassa

Speculative Aesthetics

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Discussion 2

Speculative Aesthetics

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Discussion 1

Speculative Aesthetics

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The Coup de Dés, or the Materialist …

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From Collective to Wager

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Editorial Introduction

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The Metaphysics of Predation

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Editorial Introduction

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Philosophers’ Islands

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Editorial Introduction

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Shadows of Copernicanism

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Spectral Dilemma

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Editorial Introduction

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Another World

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Matisse-Thought and the Strict …

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Mathesis, Science and Philosophy

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Subtraction and Contraction

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‘I Feel I am a Pure Metaphysician’

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Response to a Series of Questions

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Editorial Introduction

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Potentiality and Virtuality

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Editorial Introduction

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On the Mathematics of Intensity

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Existential Risk (Interview)

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Philosophy, Sciences, Mathematics …

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Editorial Introduction

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Events

Sonic Faction III

Art Is / Is Art: An Evening with Rhea Myers

Sonic Faction II

Cultivating Darkness

Sonic Faction

Bristol Social Dissonance Launch

Rewilding Practice Live Q&A

Structure and Synthesis—in Conversation

Rewilding Practice

Atlas Europe Square Launch—London

Atlas Europe Square Launch—Brussels

Proof of Expenditure (4 Saps)

Kabin

Unfamiliar Planet

The Utopia of Popularity

From the Spine to the Stars

Inspection II

How to Make Yourself an AGI

Unboxing the Machines

Ballardian Breakfast Briefing/Midnight Séance

Gesture as Playlist

The Ultimate Yarnwork

#Accelerate vs Châtelet at Spike

Speculative Aesthetics Launch at Tate

Objects and Objections

#Accelerate Launch

Speculative Aesthetics Roundtable

Final Machine

Simulation, Exercise, Operations

Extraction and its Complications

Urbanomic/Sequence Launch

Non-Philosophy, Non-Photography

Speculative Solution

The Medium of Contingency

Hydroplutonic Kernow Fault-Map

Hydroplutonic Kernow

Sound out of Line

Image-Force

Darwin: The Greatest Humiliation?

Recorded While It Actually Happened

Thinking Nothing

Documents

Paths of the Sea: On Approaching Gilles Grelet’s Theory of the Solitary Sailor

Applied Pansemiotics: The Disney Triskelion and the Image of God

 (Translator)

Founded on Nothing: An Interview with Quentin Meillassoux

 (Translator)

The Second Davos University Conference

 (Translator)

French, Pop’s Forked Tongue

 (Translator)

Dreams and Fabrications

 (Interviewer)

Reengineering Philosophy

So Many Unrealities

Concept and Intuition in Abstract Probability Theory

 (Translator)

Doctor Strange: A Hero of the Mind

 (Translator)

Forget About Elections, Once and For All!

 (Translator)

From False Globalisation to the One Communist World, via the Question of ‘Foreigners’

 (Translator)

Mark Fisher Memorial

Lost Films as Philosophical Fiction

 (Translator)

To Remake the ‘Timaeus’

 (Translator)

The Madonna on the Craters of the Moon: An Aesthetic Epistemology

 (Translator)

Point of Gaze

 (Translator)

A Slow Gradual Ooze

 (Interviewer)

Gesture as Playlist

Objects and Objections

 (Interviewer)

A Martial Art of Metaphor: Two Interviews with Gilles Châtelet

 (Translator)

Mathematical Thought

 (Translator)

Sound and Concept

Perspective, Alienation, Escape: An Introduction

The Real Thing: The Real and the Sublime

The Real Thing: Panel Discussion

Sound Out of Line: In Conversation with Florian Hecker

 (Interviewer)

Image-Force: In Conversation with Amanda Beech

 (Interviewer)

Speculative Solution: Quentin Meillassoux and Florian Hecker Talk Hyperchaos

Podcasts

Atlas Endlos

Traversing Melancholy

Jean Cavaillès: A Necessary Becoming

A Serial Killer of Memories

PlaguePod Live Year 2 Day 1

PlaguePod Live Day 34

PlaguePod Live: Day 26

PlaguePod Bonus Lockdown Storytime

PlaguePod Live: Day 9

PlaguePod Live: Day 5

The Utopia of Popularity

The Spinal Landscape

Maniac Lullabies

Songs of Labour and Pleasure, from Postpaganism to Neoliberalism

Archipelagic Listening

Yarncast: Field, Plot, Yarn

Yarncast: Hard Cases

Yarncast: Noir in Ultima Thule

Yarncast: Forensics and Counter-Forensics

Yarncast: From Fact Patterns to Plots

Yarncast: Plots, Platforms and Sinister Designs

Yarncast: The Stage and the Diagram