Taking the recently published book The Reticular Society (PM Press, 2026) as their guide, Ian Alan Paul and Andrew Culp will reflect upon the networked reorganization of capitalist society, the diverse ways digital technologies have invaded and imposed their shape upon everyday life, and what forms of revolt might remain possible against the suffocating flows of our online world.

This event is organized in collaboration with PM Press as part of their All We Have Is Each Other Speaker Series.

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Ian Alan Paul is a theorist whose work engages with technopolitics and anarchist thought. Over the course of their life they have taught and developed projects in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Egypt, and Palestine. They presently are part of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Media, Power, and Difference at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and published their first book The Reticular Society with PM Press in 2026.

Andrew Culp is Professor of Media History and Theory and Director of the MA in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. His scholarship recovers negativity as a political and aesthetic force, with interventions in radical philosophy and anti-political theory. His first book Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) argues against the “canon of joy” that has domesticated French philosophy. His newest book, Anarcheology of Power, examines the enduring divide between rulers and the ruled across five modes of power.