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This talk is a diachronic analysis of the Mechanicus. We will examine recent and historical cultural attitudes relevant to the Adeptus Mechanicus, in accordance with our practice of using Warhammer 40k itself as a framework to explore critical theory and historical concepts, rather than exploring Warhammer 40k through these frameworks, a reversal of the lens …
The grim darkness of the far future harbors an ontological abyss – the Warhammer 40k universe unfurls as a delirious cosmology of hyperspatial paradoxes and spectral becomings that undermine all conventional spatio-temporality. My contribution plunges into the vertiginous “non-spaces” permeating this dystopian cosmos – rifts, folds, and lines of deterritorialization that deconstruct rigid human constructs …
As I sit down in my scriptorium, the cogitator comes alive with a touch of my finger, its spirit has grown accustomed to in lengthy rituals of familiarization after it was first assigned to me. Eager to work, it presents me with chatter from the noosphere that still my flesh is too weak to perceive …