Table of Contents

Robin Mackay, 'Editorial Introduction'; Ray Brassier, 'The Enigma of Realism: On Quentin Meillassoux's "After Finitude"'; Quentin Meillassoux, 'Potentiality and Virtuality'; Roberto Trotta, 'Dark Matter: Probing the Arche-Fossil (Interview)'; Graham Harman, 'On Vicarious Causation'; Paul Churchland, 'Demons Get Out! (Interview)'; Clementine Duzer and Laura Gozlan, 'Nevertheless Empire'; Kristen Alvanson, 'Elysian Space in the Middle-East'; Reza Negarestani, 'Islamic Exotericism: Apocalypse in the Wake of Refractory Impossibility'

About the Author

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

Quentin Meillassoux teaches philosophy at Universite de Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne), and is author of After Finitude.

Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy atSCI-Arcin Los Angeles.His work on themetaphysicsof objects led to the development ofobject-oriented ontology. He is a central figure in thespeculative realismtrend in contemporary philosophy.

Paul M. Churchland is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, Matter and Consciousness- A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.

Kristen Alvanson is an American artist and writer. Her essays and artworks have been published in journals and anthologies worldwide, and she has participated in group and solo shows in New York, Tehran, Shiraz, London, Istanbul, Berlin, Vienna, Singapore, Kessel-Lo, Z rich, and Vilnius.

Reza Negarestani is an Iranian philosopher best known for pioneering the genre of "theory-fiction" with his book Cyclonopedia. (Urbanomic/Sequence Press).