Selected writings


Books

The Shadow of Being: Symbolic / Diabolic, London, Arkham: Miskatonic Virtual University Press, 2023.

Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2023. ⤶

Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism and the Apocalypse (2nd edition), Berlin: Becoming Press, 2024.

Italian translation ★ Semiotica della fine. Saggi sul capitalismo e l’apocalisse, Bologna: MachinaLibro, 2025.

Portuguese translation ★ Semiótica do fim: Capitalismo e apocalipse, São Paulo: Sobinfluencia Edições, 2025.

French translation ★ Coming soon, Paris: Éditions MF.

Iranian translation ★ Coming soon, Tehran: شر سیب سرخ.

Spanish translation ★ Coming soon, TBC.

Beyond the Image: On Visual Culture in the Twenty-First Century, Eindhoven: Set Margins’, 2025.

Italian translation ★ Al di là dell’immagine. Una guida alla cultura visiva del ventunesimo secolo, Bologna: Inactual, 2026.

“Afterword: Hyperculture”, in Achim Szepanski, In the Delirium of Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited. Berlin: Becoming Press, 2025.

“Ghettogothic”, in Achim Szepanski and Akira Palais (eds.), Ultrablack of Music (Volume 2). London: Zer0 Books, 2025.

“Spectres of Colonialism”, in Silas Heizmann (ed.), Post-Post-Apocalypse, Basel: n.p., 2025.

“Editor’s Note”, in Matt Bluemink, The Future Is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds, Berlin: Becoming Press, 2026.
Italian translation ★ Coming soon. Bologna: Inactual.

Articles

Semiotics of the End: Boredom at the End of the World, Blue Labyrinths, 13 October 2021. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Semiotica della fine: La noia alla fine del mondo, Charta Sporca, 7 November 2021. ⤶

German translation ★ Semiotik des Endes: Langeweile am Ende der Welt (trans. Achim Szepanski), NON, 9 February 2023. ⤶

Semiotics of the End: Turbo-Violence, Blue Labyrinths, 30 December 2021. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Semiotica della fine: Il glitch e la turbo-violenza delle immagini, Charta Sporca, 22 February 2022. ⤶

Semiotics of the End: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza, Blue Labyrinths, 10 April 2022. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Semiotica della fine: Vaporwave e capitalismo, DROGA, 22 June 2022. ⤶

Tre poesie di Orides Fontela (1940–1998), con Sophie Louise Maria Gaden, Charta Sporca, 19 May 2022. ⤶

Jacques Derrida Is Not a Werewolf (According to Nick Land), Blue Labyrinths, 2 January 2022. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Jacques Derrida non è un lupo mannaro (secondo Nick Land), Charta Sporca, 7 June 2022. ⤶

La regina muore, DROGA, 30 September 2022. ⤶

The Philosophy of Jungle and New Breakcore Music: From Rufige Kru to Machine Girl, Blue Labyrinths, 30 January 2023. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Filosofia della musica jungle e della nuova breakcore: da Rufige Kru a Machine Girl, DROGA, 14 October 2022. ⤶

Quel che ho visto, udito, appreso… — di Giorgio Agamben, Charta Sporca, 3 November 2022. ⤶

The End of the Internet: An Interview with Geert Lovink, Blue Labyrinths, 2 January 2023. ⤶

Italian translation ★ La fine di Internet, Not, 22 March 2023. ⤶

Musica hardcore per videogiochi della PlayStation (1995–2005), DROGA, 24 January 2023. ⤶

Musica dei film a luci rosse (1970–1980), DROGA, 15 March 2023. ⤶

Musica vietnamita (nhạc vàng) (1960–1975), DROGA, 6 July 2023. ⤶

Arabic Hauntology: The Sound of Habibi Funk Records, Blue Labyrinths, 13 September 2023. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Hauntologia araba: Il suono di Habibi Funk Records, Inactual, 28 April 2024. ⤶

Le patatine fritte di Friedrich Nietzsche, Charta Sporca, 36, 13, 2024.

Solarpunk as Pharmakon: Building a New World out of the Ruins of an Old One, Berliner Gazette, 26 February 2024. ⤶

German translation ★ Solarpunk als Pharmakon: Eine neue Welt aus den Ruinen der Alten Aufbauen (trans. Krystian Woznicki), NON, 28 February 2024. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Che cos’è il solarpunk?, Inactual, 2 March 2025. ⤶

Portuguese translation ★ O que é o solarpunk?, Carbono, 11 November 2025. ⤶

Anti-Hauntology & the Semiotics of the End, &&&, 27 April 2024. ⤶

Musica o barbarie: Dos Atomos di Dos Monos, Charta Sporca, 6 June 2024. ⤶

English translation ★ Music or Barbarism: Dos Atomos by Dos Monos, Blue Labyrinths, 13 June 2024. ⤶

Reality Never Wins: An Interview with the Silent Majorities, NON, 24 July 2024. ⤶

Italian translation ★ La realtà non vince mai: Un’intervista alle Maggioranze Silenziose, Charta Sporca, 29 July 2024. ⤶

German translation ★ Die Realität siegt nie: Ein Interview mit den schweigenden Mehrheiten (trans. Achim Szepanski), NON, 30 July 2024. ⤶

The Coming Apocalypse. Apocalyptica, 4, 12 September 2024.

La tomba del capitalismo, Charta Sporca, 37, 1, 2025.

Capitalism and Mathematics: An Interview with Giorgi Vachnadze, Everyday Analysis, 19 February 2025. ⤶

Distorsione e significato: Les Rallizes Dénudés, L’Indiscreto, 7 March 2025. ⤶

La dissidenza politica di Jianwei Xun: Ipnocrazia e la filosofia del falso, DROGA, 22 May 2025. ⤶

Meme e fiamme: L’estetica dell’insurrezione della Gen Z, Machina, 28 October 2025. ⤶

English translation ★ Memes and Flames: The Aesthetics of the Gen Z Uprising, Institute of Network Cultures, 29 October 2025. ⤶

The Phantom Image: On Francesca Woodman’s Self-Portraits, Alienocene, 15, 4 April 2025. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Francesca Woodman, l’immagine fantasma, Antinomie, 3 February 2026. ⤶

Lo schermo nero, Charta Sporca, 38, 1, 2026.

Solarpunk: A Short Guide to the Decolonization of the Sun, Blue Labyrinths, 20 April 2026. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Solarpunk. Una breve guida alla decolonizzazione del Sole. Charta Sporca, 22 September 2026. ⤶

The Society of the Screen: Collective and Personal Media, Blue Labyrinths, 16 October 2026. ⤶

Interviews

Cardozo, Camila. Entrevista com Alessandro Sbordoni, Carbono, 11 July 2026. ⤶

English translation ★ How to Reclaim the Present. Spike Art, 21 October 2026. ⤶

Disintegrator Podcast [Roberto Alonso Trillo and Marek Poliks], Special Episode with Becoming Press, 3 November 2025. ⤶

Foletto, Leonardo and Bresciani, Rafael. Capitalism, Semiotics, and the Subjectivities of the End: Interview with Alessandro Sbordoni, Institute of Network Cultures, 6 September 2025. ⤶

Portuguese translation ★ Capitalismo, Semiótica e as Subjetividades do Fim: Entrevista com Alessandro Sbordoni, BaixaCultura, 10 September 2025. ⤶

Spanish translation ★ Capitalismo, Semiótica y Subjetividades del Fin: Entrevista a Alessandro Sbordoni, BaixaCultura, 10 September 2025. ⤶

XX121. Future Reloaded: An Interview with Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni, Blue Labyrinths, 27 January 2025. ⤶

Italian translation ★ Il futuro non è perduto. Un’intervista con Alessandro Sbordoni e Matt Bluemink, Machina, 28 February 2025. ⤶

Talks and events

Presentazione del libro: “The Shadow of Being: Symbolic / Diabolic”, with Alessandra Cislaghi, Trieste: Università degli Studi di Trieste, 7 June 2022. ⤶

Semiotics of the End, with Geert Lovink, Chloë Arkenbout, and Tommaso Campagna. Extended Publishing Fest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12 January 2024. ⤶

Book Presentation: Semiotics of the End, with Matt Bluemink. Het Fort van Sjakoo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13 January 2024. ⤶

Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse, with Matt Bluemink. The Gilded Acorn Bookshop, London, United Kingdom, 23 March 2024. ⤶

Multiplication of the End(s) with Christian Nirvana Damato, Bruno, Venice, Italy, 12 September 2025. ⤶

Semiótica do Fim: Capitalismo e Apocalipse, with Leonardo Foletto. Sobinfluencia Edições, São Paulo, Brazil, 19 July 2025. ⤶

Immediacy: The Bias of Information, Πάμε Βενετία, Cyprus Pavillon, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 13 September 2025. ⤶

Digital Death Drive, Ljubljanastrophe, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29 April 2026. ⤶

Planetary Ecologies and Cosmo-Politics, PEPTalk, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2026. ⤶

Charta Sporca (n. 37) Fantasmi, with Diletta Coppi, Bruno, Venice, Italy, 12 September 2025. ⤶

Post-Internet. Cultura visuale e nichilismo, with Arianna Caserta, Liminal Milieux, IUAV, Venice, Italy, 11 October 2026. ⤶

On Collective and Personal Media. Studio Image, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, 13 October 2026.

Charta Sporca (n. 38) Nero, with Jacopo Barusso and Marco Bussani, Knulp, Trieste, Italy, 23 October 2026.

The Future Is Not Lost: Book Launch and Talk with Matt Bluemink, ICA, London, United Kingdom, 11 November 2026. ⤶

Translations

Bastani, Aaron. Perché Realismo capitalista di Mark Fisher è il libro più importante del XXI secolo? (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), Artribune, 1 February 2023. ⤶

Cirnigliaro, Lorenzo. Born in the Lost Future: Bladee and Hauntology (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), Blue Labyrinths, 20 February 2023. ⤶

Cirnigliaro, Lorenzo. Give Up the Future: Organ Tapes and Tiqqun (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), Blue Labyrinths, 27 February 2023. ⤶

Colquhoun, Matt. Note sul surrealismo capitalista (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni). Not, 19 January 2023. ⤶

Culp, Andrew. Filosofia Sotterranea. Saggi su politica e insurrezione (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), Roma: DeriveApprodi, forthcoming.

Marchand, Julia. Prefazione (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), in Arianna Caserta, Teen Nihil. Cinema, adolescenza e nichilismo, Bologna: Inactual, 2026.

Kulesko, Claudio. From Plato to the Moving Image: Notes on Lynchian Ethics (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), Blue Labyrinths, 5 February 2025. ⤶

Lovink, Geert. Extinction Internet (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), Notzine, 1, 7 March 2024. ⤶

Muni, Andrea. An Impossible Interview with Georges Bataille (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), Blue Labyrinths, 26 August 2022. ⤶

Papacci, Riccardo. The Melancholia of Class: Intellectuals and Subcultures in Consumer Society (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), NON, 3 February 2023. ⤶

Parikka, Jussi. C’è ancora tanto spazio nella simulazione (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), Notsfera, 11 June 2024. ⤶

Žižek, Slavoj. Benvenuti nella civiltà del paradosso del mentitore (trans. Alessandro Sbordoni), Charta Sporca, 22 April 2025. ⤶