ABSTRACT
As if everything else in thought and the real stayed intact, the artificial naturalised is by no means merely the onset of a new ‘regime’ of world-making and materiality. On the contrary, the coming-into-being of a world where it is the artificial (and no longer nature) which constitutes the horizon, medium, and prime condition of existence for all living things, marks a decisive historical rupture. It points to the emergence of a new historical epoch, one that operates to quite different dynamics than the modern from which it sprang. The chance of interrupting our trajectory towards catastrophe is contained in possibilities objectively opened by this development.
