#neganthropocene

Immense unrest has seized hold of the world. The risk is that this unrest will turn into something more than just disquiet, and more even than anguish: into terror. This danger is obvious to anyone who is not too afraid to look at what is taking place, and it is fundamentally connected to the becoming of the Anthropocene: the direction in which this geological age is unfolding is increasingly seen by humankind as an inexorably fatal form of becoming.

Does anyone really believe that it is possible to ‘solve’ the problems of climate change, habitat destruction and cultural destruction without addressing the consumerist basis of the present macro-economic system, or vice versa, or without addressing the way in which this system depletes the psychic energy required to find the collective will, belief, hope and reason to address this planetary challenge?

Everything acts as a screen. It is firstly for this reason and as such that we live among screens – that is, this is, in a way, how it has always been. The totem and the transitional object, as well as the fetish, are screens – that is, supports of projections that conceal [dissimulent]. But digital screens, like those of Samsung, for example, or, again, those today being designed by Amazon and Netflix, these screens, which are simultaneously electric, electronic, optoelectronic and more and more frequently tactile, are now what both support and occlude the question of the totality of the future, and of the future as totality, and they do so as the fulfilment of nihilism – as well as being what, alone, make it possible to imagine something beyond this fulfil- ment of nihilism.