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media researcher and/or media artist https://www.gomezvenegas.com/
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I think there is something fundamentally troubleing in Patricia Piccinini’s posthuman worlds: All the creatures seem to be kinda of white—literally pinkish skins with red hair. All of them. So all this praise from major philosophical figures, whom I admire, makes me a little uneasy

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Many people outside the US – especially in Europe – criticize and laugh at Trump’s decision to rename the Golf of Mexico. But many of them have been using the word America as a synonym for the US for decades, even though they know …

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I see that Luisa Neubauer wore a protest dress on the red carpet of the Berlinale. She is angry that fascism is spreading in Germany and the US. But she distanced herself from Greta when she protested against fascism being inflicted on non-western brown people. Luisa is such a fake activist

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“In fact”—Kate Crawford writes in her Atlas of AI—“the concept of intelligence has done inordinate harm over centuries and has been used to justify relations of domination from slavery to eugenics.”

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From the Archive: Think piece by Paul Feigelfeld and Jussi Parikka, 'Kittler on the NSA' - an introduction to Friedrich Kittler’s short text on the NSA (National Security Agency) titled "No Such Agency" originally published in 1986. www.theoryculturesociety.org/kittler-on-t...

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This is Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism (1973) – my redrawing of it. If you want to learn more about it, I invite you to read chapter five of my dissertation, where I explain and discuss the model in detail: doi.org/10.18452/29151 #Cybernetics #Models #Capitalism

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This is Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism (1973) – my redrawing of it. If you want to learn more about it, I invite you to read chapter five of my dissertation, where I explain and discuss the model in detail: doi.org/10.18452/29151 #Cybernetics #Models #Capitalism

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I really like Sybille Krämer insistence—following Matthew Kirschenbaum—that computers are forensic machines

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Today was my first day at the #Stabi Library in Potsdamer Platz – I was a Grimm Zentrum regular before the pandemic. The place is really fascinating. Old, futuristic, vibrant, a little ruined, charming. I even saw a girl wearing a T-Shirt that read “Refugees Welcome” on my way out. Another #Berlin

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The current political discussion in Germany is whether the Christian Democrats would make an alliance with the AfD – the far-right, Musk-loving, Nazi-like local party. As a Chilean I can only say that in hard times the Christian Democrats always make deals with the (extremely) bad guys

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And I think that thinking of information as tension, as the potential that allows two or more disparate realities to become one, is an essential starting point for imagining, designing, and then developing radically emancipatory technological futures …

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Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism #3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

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Simondon says that information is tension. Moreover, that information “is the tension between two disparate reals, it is the signification that will emerge when an operation of individuation will discover the dimension according to which two disparate reals can become a system.”

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Take this advice and use discount code RESOLUTION30 to get 30% off Late Fascism for the next 24 hours www.versobooks.com/products/262...

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As much as I cherish Mark Fisher’s work in my heart, I have to say that at least since his death, it’s clear that the opposite is true. Tech capitalism reclaimed the future and regularly shows us that it can bring it to us … 1/4

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Man, it's so awesome that we have an english archive of Marx's journalism during the 1848 revolutions, a great primary source of historical events. marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx...

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Alejandro Zambra, *Mudanza* (first page, 2014 edition)

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Simondon against the Berlin School of Media Studies

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I just found out, via John Merrick (not here apparently), about this new book, which seems to be really interesting – especially for those interested in the history of the New World and the scope of the notion of America: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326...

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I just finished my belated reading of Yuk #Hui’s *Recursivity and Contingency* (2019). I wished I had read it before or during my PhD work, but I simply didn’t get around to it. It’s really a great and illuminating work / 1

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Following Stiegler and Simondon, Yuk Hui writes: “The artist is not someone who produces a work of taste, but rather someone who is capable of and responsible for creating a circuit that allows a transindividuation between the I and the we […]”

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I look forward to speaking at the conference “Legacies of Antihumanism”, 5th-7th December, University of Ljubljana. I will engage with the conference’s theme by speculating on a possible “off-centre AI” and the symbolic order computational machines produce. The abstract for my keynote is below.

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On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Vierte Welle Film Festival is screening “Luchadoras”, a Mexican documentary from 2021. ->Monday, 25 November, 8:00 pm In Lichtblick Kino, Berlin lichtblick-kino.org/special/24-1...

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