This book is based upon the efforts of the Ontogenetics Process Group that began meeting in 2017 to explore new and innovative ways of thinking the problem of complexity in living, physical, and social systems outside the algorithmic models that have dominated paradigms of complexity to date.

Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, USA, where he is Founding Director of 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory. His books and edited collections include What Is Posthumanism? and Ecological Poetics, or, Wallace Stevens's Birds. In 2007 he founded the series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press.

Adam Nocek is Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University, USA. Nocek is the Founding Director of the Center for Philosophical Technologies at ASU and the author of Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology.

Introduction 1. Eros and Logos 2. The Epimedial Landscape 3. The Digital Sublime: Algorithmic Binds in a Living Foundry 4. Alienated Life: Toward a Goth Theory of Biology 5. The Square Root of Negative One is Imaginary 6. The Singularity Has Come and Gone: The Beginning of Organization 7. In- Kind Disruptions: Circadian Rhythms and Necessary Jolts in Eco- Cinema 8. Relational Realism and the Ontogenetic Universe: Subject, Object, and Ontological Process in Quantum Mechanics 9. Scientific Thought and Absolutes: For an Image of the Sciences, Between Computing and Biology 10. What "The Animal" Can Teach "The Anthropocene" 11 Ontogenesis Beyond Complexity: Conversations