Chronosis

Chronosis Reza Negarestani, Keith Tilford, Robin Mackay Published by Urbanomic March 2021 Paperback 265x175mm, 152pp ISBN 978-1-913029-54-8 Approaching the comic medium as a supercollider for achieving maximum abstraction, in Chronosis artist Keith Tilford and philosophers Reza Negarestani (author of Cyclonopedia and Intelligence and Spirit) and Robin Mackay create a graphically stunning and conceptually explosive universe in which the worlds of pop culture, modern art, philosophy, science fiction, and theoretical physics crash into one another. Stalking the multiverse, a strange entity manifests itself in different guises, visiting trauma upon whoever encounters it—whether Jeremy Charles, earthbound hawker of paranoid cosmic visions, or the interplanetary order of the Lacars, intent on extending their galactic empire to planet Earth. This is the figure of Time itself, with whose birth the story of Chronosis begins. The ascetic order of the Monazzeins, who dwell nowhere and nowhen,