Our world is a complex, sophisticated system but also an increasingly chaotic and barbaric one. Due to the war on terror, the dualization of our world under neoliberalism, global warming, the ongoing demographic explosion and migration, chaos and anarchy are becoming part of our world system in a new way. We are entering a planetary state of emergency. One could call it the ‘New World Disorder’ or ‘Entropic Empire’.

Entropic Empire is not only a posthistorical science-fiction scenario but also a philosophical consideration on the eternal return of prehistory: the state of nature. ‘Rogues states’, ‘state ending’ and ‘civil war engineering’ are part of the Entropic Empire. Ultimately this book tries to fathom the political condition of a coming era. The simple but worrying question is: Are we falling out of history?

Lieven De Cauter is the author of The Capsular Civilization and published Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization in cooperation with NAi Publishers.

Our world is a complex, sophisticated system but also an increasingly chaotic and barbaric one. Due to the war on terror, the dualization of our world under neoliberalism, global warming, the ongoing demographic explosion and migration, chaos and anarchy are becoming part of our world system in a new way. We are entering a planetary state of emergency. One could call it the ‘New World Disorder’ or ‘Entropic Empire’.

Entropic Empire is not only a posthistorical science-fiction scenario but also a philosophical consideration on the eternal return of prehistory: the state of nature. ‘Rogues states’, ‘state ending’ and ‘civil war engineering’ are part of the Entropic Empire. Ultimately this book tries to fathom the political condition of a coming era. The simple but worrying question is: Are we falling out of history?

Lieven De Cauter is the author of The Capsular Civilization and published Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization in cooperation with NAi Publishers.