Il ritorno del futuro A long piece - in Italian - about the current state of the future. With reflections on #Additivism, #Xenofeminism, #Chthulucene, #PostInternet:

In true spirit of Marinetti, additivism chasing an ideal post-human to the edge of pornography; technological fetishism in their case is a decidedly erotic fetishism, that blessed wallows in a sea of perversions and uninhibited excitement for the deformed: “There is nothing more desirable for mankind do more often fertile union between a man and an Analytical Engine. Our technologies are the sexual organs of speculation material. Any attempt to understand events is rendered impossible by our anthropomorphism.

If the Xenofeminism pursues a "futro alien”, the 3D Additivist Manifesto calls for “a gradual awakening of matter; the emergence, finally, of a new form of life. ” Therefore it proposes to “forge anarchy, rebellion and disorder,” and to create “clutter from his digital magazine”. The great metaphor to the root of the project additivism, is the 3D printer, it becomes a tool to “condense imagery into material reality”: not so much a machine of desires, as a machine for the desire.

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Courtesy grouphab.it and Harm van den Dorpel. An extended and altered version of this text will be published in... You Are Here: Looking at After the Internet

Information ethics has become a scholarly growth industry in recent years, especially through the work of Rafael Capurro, the  founder of the International Center forInformation Ethics (ICIE). The maturity of the debate is reflected in the leading question of the International ICIE Symposium 2004 in Karlsruhe, Germany: how isembodied human life possible within local cultural traditions and the horizon of a global digital environment? The Symposium  explores ethical ramifications of thisquestion by encouraging research and reflection on effects of the Internet and postInternet developments of digital networks on a wide range of phenomena, includingcommunity, democracy, customs, language, media, economic development, and cultural memory. These are valuable projects, and much can be learned from themabout the causal relations in which digital networks in their current form are implicated.