Abstract

Dark Meshwork. For a Theory of ontological Complexity in the Age of Anthropocene This article will provide a taxonomy of the ontological, anthropological and political positions that describe the need for radical epistemological change in the understanding of phenomena related to climate change and digital revolution (Tanatologism, Accelerationism, Decelerationist Cosmopolitics, Xenofeminism). Then, through the analysis of the works of Timothy Morton, Tim Ingold, Emanuele Coccia, Donna Haraway, Eugene Thacker and James Bride, the concept of “dark meshwork” will be outlined, as an ambivalent figure of darkness and hyper-complexity that emerges from the observation of physical phenomena, biological (symbiogenesis and cooperation), ontological (metaphysics of mixture), ethnographic (anthropology of lines) and iconological (the Pathosformel of the Ninfa fluida).