Tutorial of the Monadic Age
by Ingo Niermann

short overview (turn on audio!) stills The world is marked by deepening conflicts—between democracies and autocracies, woke and populist identity politics, rich and poor, continued environmental exploitation and harsh complications like climate change. Ingo Niermann argues that, stirred by rapid developments in automation and AI, these manifold crises are about to culminate in a new paradigm of self sufficiency—monadism—that overturns the liberal era and forces a reinvention of all social parameters.

Tutorial of the Monadic Age is an internally linked glossary of key terms from Ingo Niermann’s new book The Monadic Age: Note on the Coming Social Order (Sternberg Press, London, 2024).

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Ingo Niermann is a speculative writer and the editor of the Solutions Series at Sternberg Press. Based on his novel Solution 257: Complete Love (2016), Niermann initiated the Army of Love, a project that tests and promotes a need-oriented redistribution of sensual love. His work has been featured at the Berlin Biennale; the Istanbul Biennale; documenta, Kassel; the Venice Biennale; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Niermann is a lecturer at the Institute Art Gender Nature, HGK Basel FHNW. – ingoniermann.com