Telematic people is a phrase used to describe us moderns in Vilém Flusser’s Into the Technical Universe (2011[1985]) that appealed to me while collaborating with Maria Ahmed on a zine inspired by Flusser. Our zine was named In Pursuit of an Apparition, Hands Can Miss the Object (2024); also, Flusser’s words. It seems like a mistake to read Flusser’s coinage as either utopian or dystopian. Perhaps instead, it indicates a zoomed-out view, which can be challenging for us myopic creatures who cling (perhaps somewhat defensively) to our parochial vision, which might also be described as an apparition. For me, the collaboration with Maria marked the beginning of Telematic People Publications, a series of zines and booklets that explore the implicit and unavoidable shifts, rifts, and fractures we are all grappling with, consciously or less so, as our historical human exceptionalism is forced to confront itself in the face of developments across science, technology and beyond. This project is open to collaboration. Please contact me for further information.

 

  • Beyond Obsolescence– (Working title)
    60pp including covers, booklet/zine, due Winter 2025