Daniel Rourke is a writer and artist based in London. In his work Daniel exploits speculative and science fiction in search of a radical ‘outside’ to the human(ities), including extensive research on the intersection between digital materiality, the arts, and posthumanism. In March 2015 artist & activist Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel released The 3D Additivist Manifesto – a call to push technologies beyond their breaking point, into the realm of the provocative, and the weird. The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between (lecture) In this talk Daniel Rourke refigures the sci-fi horror monster The Thing from John Carpenter's 1982 film of the same name, a creature of endless mimetic transformations capable of 'becoming' the grizzly faced men who fail to defeat it. The Thing is both a process that exposes the unthinkability of (human) life ‘in’ the world, whilst also addressing Rosi Braidotti’s call for forms of theory that ‘learn to think about processes and not only concepts… [that] represent in-between zones and areas of experience or perception.’ The ability to perform self-effacement and subsequent renewal at every moment is The Thing’s most enduring quality, a quality we must embrace and mimic ourselves if we are to out manoeuvre the monsters that harangue us. www.machinemachine.net