http://www.francisalys.com/public/hielo.html

http://www.junglegossip.com/smithmag.html

Transgression: There is no option to escape

"0x00 Ours is a world in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with 
technological mediation, interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, 
virtuality, and complexity. XF constructs a feminism adapted to these 
realities: a feminism of unprecedented cunning, scale, and vision; a future 
in which the realization of gender justice and feminist emancipation 
contribute to a universalist politics assembled from the needs of every 
human, cutting across race, ability, economic standing, and geographical 
position.  No more futureless repetition on the treadmill of capital, no more 
submission to the drudgery of labour, productive and reproductive alike, no 
more reification of the given masked as critique.  Our future requires 
depetrification.  XF is not a bid for revolution, but a wager on the long 
game of history, demanding imagination, dexterity and persistence. "

XENOFEMINISM – A POLITICS OF ALIENATION – Laboria Cuboniks

From Henrik Olesen’s Companion Species series

Saartje Baartman (a.k.a. “Hottentot Venus”) at Musée De L’Homme in Paris

Colonial Planning and After

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QRG_Y26WiI

While neoliberal capitalism has been remarkably successful at laying claim to the future, it used to belong to the left — to the party of utopia. Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’s Inventing the Future argues that the contemporary left must revive its historically central mission of imaginative engagement with futurity. It must refuse the all-too-easy trap of dismissing visions of technological and social progress as neoliberal fantasies. It must seize the contemporary moment of increasing technological sophistication to demand a post-scarcity future where people are no longer obliged to be workers; where production and distribution are democratically delegated to a largely automated infrastructure; where people are free to fish in the afternoon and criticize after dinner. It must combine a utopian imagination with the patient organizational work necessary to wrest the future from the clutches of hegemonic neoliberalism.

 

— On Algorithmic Communism

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

“World Brain treats the architecture of data centers, the collective intelligence of kittens, high-frequency trading, the law of the jungle in the Wikipedia era, and the adjusting of transhuman rats…”

http://worldbrain.arte.tv/#/

(http://www.thomasmailaender.com/cyanotypes-2/)

Jimmie Durham, Building a Nation, 2006. Installation view at Matt’s Gallery.

Jimmie Durham, Building a Nation, 2006.  Installation view at Matt’s Gallery.

I made a robot to help me argue on the internet pic.twitter.com/NxpXhk0NMM

— Simone Giertz (@SimoneGiertz) March 16, 2016

www.simonegiertz.com

Chalky Soil. Unexpected Bugs.

Some Silly Stories

 Episode 1

Waxed and Beautiful