A Book for Disappearance explores themes of extinction and ecology through the lens of contemporary technology and using AI and image-generation platforms as collective tools. It grapples with the contradictions of living in this world full of worlds and full of crises, while revindicating processes of nomadic becoming, transcending fixed identities, and collective emergence. While disappearance may seem abstract or esoteric, it has tangible implications for both individual and collective action. In this book, the concept of disappearance emerges as an alternative, including a variety of short poetic and experimental texts on the multiple possibilities that surface from our engagement with AI alter-egos and a collective artistic exercise with image generation technologies. Texts by Laura Tripaldi, Institute of Queer Ecologies, and Stacy Alaimo provide further food for thought, and invite readers into recondite explorations—of parasitic spaces and ghost bodies through materialist feminisms; of oak archives and the previous lives that forests can narrate to us; of acid oceans and the psychedelic trips they might afford.

 
Authors:
Essays:
    Institute for Postnatural Studies
    Institute of Queer Ecologies
    Laura Tripaldi
    Stacy Alaimo

Contributors:
    Abdulla Buhijji
    Alex Knychalska
    Alvaro Azcarraga
    Anna-Katharina Laboissière
    Annika Kappner
    Antonine Scali Ringwald     
    Barbara Kiolbassa  
    Catherine Taft
    Egór Kraft
    Elisa Balmaceda
    Elizabeth Burmann Littin
    Ella Rosenblatt
    Florencia Pochinki
    Gina Sara
    Kashi Proenza
    Grace Leonora Turtle
    Guillem S. Arquer Ishaan
    Aggarwal Joeëllâ Kálâlã
    Joke Van den Heuvel
    Laura Pante
    Lena Kuzmich
    Lena Michalik
    Mio Al-Hashimy
    Nadine El Khoury
    Natalia Sorzano
    Paulina Mirowska
    Rithika Pandey
    Ryder Kimball
    Shayma Nader
    Tom Shepherd-Barron
    Traian Cherecheș
    Veronika Gryshchuk
    Walla Capelobo
    Yo-E Ryou
    Zoe Keller

Coordination of the Collective AI Model Training: 
    Veronika Gryshchuk

Editorial team:
    Yuri Tuma
    Gabriel Alonso
    Catalina Imizcoz
    Karol Muñozcano

Editorial design:
   Matteo Guarnaccia
   Alicia Sánchez

Language: Texts in English
Binding: Softcover
Printed: June 2023