Founded in 1999 by Tom McCarthy, the International Necronautical Society (INS) spreads itself as both fiction and actuality, often blurring the two. “Famously described as ‘replaying the avant-garde along the faultline of death’” (Art Monthly, London), the INS inhabits and appropriates a variety of art forms and cultural ‘moments’ from the defunct avant-gardes of the last century to the political, corporate and conspiratorial organisations they mimicked. The INS’s manifestos, proclamations, reports, broadcasts, hearings, inspectorates, departments, committees and sub-committees are the vehicles for interventions in the space of art, fiction, philosophy and media. A collection of key INS texts was published by Sternberg Press (Berlin, 2012) under the title The Mattering of Matter.

International Necronautical Society

Books by Tom McCarthy, General Secretary, INS

C (2010)
Men in Space (2008)
Tintin and the Secret of Literature (2007)
Remainder (2nd edition, 2007)

Books by Simon Critchley, Chief Philosopher, INS

The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology (2012)
The Book of Dead Philosophers (2009)
Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought (2009)
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (2008)
Things Merely are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (2nd edition, 2005)
Very Little Almost Nothing (2nd edition, 2004)
On Humour (2002)
Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001)

publications by Anthony Auerbach, Chief of Propaganda, INS