Originally subtitled “The Work of Art in the Age of Automated Reproduction”, this text hits home as hard as Walter Benjamin’s essay one hundred years ago. It’s a deep exploration into the future of art, and what A.I reveals to us about the direction art is going. The book contextualises art and philosophy within an evolutionary timescale, and uses biology as an entry point into tackling difficult questions about art and intelligence.

Ulysse Carrière is considered as one of the most thought-provoking and impressive young authors of the last century. Louise Morelle wrote the foreword. Both Carrière and Morelle introduce us to the term differential henology. Henology refers to the discipline that centers around the One, as in the philosophies of Plato and Plotinus.

“This text leaves us with a clearing of the conceptual ground for thinking of the Intellect as unbounded production (as you are about to see unfold). This setting is able to provide a meaning to acceleration as the relinquishment of identity to itself. All that can be automated, must be, for it already is; real acceleration derives from the potentiality to realize that which one already eels is at work in the now, the wirklich working its way to the real. The tedious bone-crushing wheels of history will never stop turning, not until they have turned the world itself into a purposeless engine, at which point there will be no calculation left to execute anyway. The logic of extinction here reveals itself as the condition for anarchic creation to operate, as its unilateral counterpart. Instead of giving ourselves to erotics or, Gods forbid, aesthetics as a replacement for thought, there remains only the immanent necessity of understanding Thinking as a thinking of the Beautiful.” — Louise Morelle, Foreword

Softcover, published in 2024, 65 pages. 11×18 cm.