Dispute plan to prevent future luxury constitution

Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution charts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failed schemes, and dubious histories.

Benjamin H. Bratton's kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Both rely on all manner of doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns to realize their propagandas of the deed, threat, and image. Blurring reality and delusion, they collaborate on a literally psychotic politics of architecture.

Bratton is a theorist whose work spans Philosophy, Art and Design. His recent writings and public talks have dealt with a wide range of issues, including the political geography of cloud computing, algorithmic reason in contemporary art, architecture and design, contested sovereignty in network societies, highly-granular universal addressing systems, augmented reality and ubiquitous computing interface design, alternate models of ecological governance, and the geophilosophical challenges of machine intelligences.