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Urbanomic Media Ltd is a publisher and cultural productio based in the UK. Our aims are:
- to promote research activities that address crucial issues in contemporary philosophy and science and their relation to contemporary art practice.
- to present to the public the results of that research, and an insight into the research process itself.
- to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production.

20/09/2025

Advance copies available now from the Urbanomic webshop and via booksellers worldwide from October 28th.

19/09/2025

Advance copies available from the Urbanomic webshop, in bookstores worldwide from October 28th.

18/09/2025

Advance copies available now from the Urbanomic webshop, in bookstores worldwide from October 28.

16/09/2025
Peter Wolfendale, The Revenge of Reason, available for pre-order now, shipping mid-October! What is the fate of Reason i...
16/09/2025

Peter Wolfendale, The Revenge of Reason, available for pre-order now, shipping mid-October!

What is the fate of Reason in the twenty-first century? Is its invocation nothing but a cipher for earthly powers that dissolve and retrench as the political terrain shifts, or is Reason the only force capable of eroding the unthinking intuitions upon which those powers thrive? Can it be mobilised into concrete systems of uncommon sense, collective weapons to despatch all self-serving rationalisations and vacuously ‘reasonable’ banalities?

Today more than ever, in the face of disinformation, memetic plagues, and neuroactive media, if we are to resist not just the continual solicitation of our cognitive reflexes, but also the unearned authority of endless everyman rationalists and self-appointed secular priests of rationality, then we have no choice but to mobilise Reason to continually dissect the responsibilities they shirk, and to embrace the future demands of thought.

Peter Wolfendale has long been dedicated to this philosophical task, and The Revenge of Reason lays out his vision for Neorationalism as a distinctive philosophical trajectory, exploring the outermost possibilities of Prometheanism, Inhumanism, and Enlightenment, as well as collecting interviews and writings on various philosophical figures and topics, addressing the deepest questions of Physis, Logos, and Ethos—all with exemplary clarity and pedagogical generosity.

Against those who would chain the fate of humanity to its animal nature, Wolfendale’s work makes the case for unbinding our rationality from every petty naturalism and every fixed image of thought, heralding an inhuman destiny unleashed by the revenge of Reason.

13/09/2025

Advance copies available from the Urbanomic webshop, worldwide release 28 October.

11/09/2025

Advance copies available in the Urbanomic webshop, worldwide release October 28th.

10/09/2025
MACHINE DECISION IS NOT FINAL is finally here. A limited number of advance copies are available to order from the Urbano...
10/09/2025

MACHINE DECISION IS NOT FINAL is finally here.

A limited number of advance copies are available to order from the Urbanomic webshop. Official release via booksellers worldwide on October 28th.

Edited by Benjamin Bratton, Anna Greenspan, Amy Ireland, and Bogna Konior

Visions of the contested future of AI veer between common planetary goals and a new Cold War as culturally-specific models of intelligence, speculative traditions, and thought experiments come up against the emergence of novel forms of cognition that cannot be reduced to any historical cultural tradition.

This uniquely-positioned volume provides expert insight into this tension, using China as a touchstone for rethinking ‘artificiality’ and ‘intelligence’ as sites of difference in a way that is already present in the difficulty of precisely translating the Chinese term 人工智能.

Spanning borders between different worlds, histories, futures, and foundational models, Machine Decision is Not Final is not only a timely reappraisal of the stakes of AI development, but a toolbox for constructing more global imaginaries for the future of AI.

Moving beyond the clichés that still dominate the contemporary debate, this interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection decentres familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become.

Contributions by:
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
An Bo
Benjamin Bratton
Chen Qiufan
Gabriele de Seta
Shuang L. Frost
Vincent Garton
Steve Goodman
Yvette Granata
Anna Greenspan
Amy Ireland
Bogna Konior
Vincent Lê
Lawrence Lek
Lukáš Likavčan
Suzanne Livingston
Iris Long
Bingchun Meng
Reza Negarestani
Wang Hongzhe
Regina Kanyu Wang
Xin Wang
Xia Jia
You Mi

More information and chapter summary: https://www.urbanomic.com/book/machine-decision-is-not-final/

07/09/2025

Advance copies available now through the Urbanomic webshop. In bookstores worldwide from October 28.

06/09/2025

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04/09/2025

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