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The Incomputable and Instrumental Possibility - Journal #77 November 2016 - e-flux

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If it is true that the individual is caught in a circle of continuous undulation between enslavement and liberation, trapped in the paradox of simulta…

In Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood trilogy, Lilith Iyapo, an African-American woman, awakens in a cell many centuries after the human race has effectively destroyed itself with nuclear weapons. She has been taken, together with a small number of other survivors, by the Oankali, a nomadic alien species searching the universe for new genetic information to expand their intelligence. The Oankali have repaired the Earth and now the remaining humans must combine their DNA with the Oankali’s third sex in order to redesign a new race purged of humanity’s self-destructive, hierarchical tendencies.…

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