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• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria

  Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

  August 20 2020, 6:13am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…

  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

  July 29 2020, 1:03am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism — Course Out Now!…

  Following our one-hour promo chat from the other day, I’m very excited to announce that The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism, a collaborative course written by James ‘@meta_nomad‘ Ellis and myself is now live at teachable.com.

  July 24 2020, 12:59pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache NaturSlime w/Ben Woodard

  We interview Ben Woodard and discuss his work focusing on the Naturphilosophie, Schelling, Slime Dynamics, and especially Biopolitics in the wake of Covid-19. Interview by Dustin Breitling === Original video: https://m.soundcloud.com/diffractionscollective/naturslime-wben-woodard Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Wed Jun 3…

  June 3 2020, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Hope Against Hope: An Interview with Out of the Woods on COVID-19,…

  AB: Your approach to climate politics emphasizes what you call “disaster communism.” Can you unpack that phrase? What does each term signify? And what do they mean when you put them…

  May 22 2020, 5:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hope Against Hope: An Interview with Out of the Woods on COVID-19,…

  AB: Your approach to climate politics emphasizes what you call “disaster communism.” Can you unpack that phrase? What does each term signify? And what do they mean when you put them…

  May 22 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Revolutionary Monsters: the Suicide of Identity Politics

  In their discourse on the revolution, Negri and Hardt use the concept of a positive generative monster. Monstrosity arises as otherness, something contrary to the existing order. It is a freak…

  October 20 2018, 8:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The right-wing politics of the “Singularity” | Salon.com

  Silicon Valley is not a place known for its religiosity, yet a remarkable number of tech leaders and workers have an irrational belief in the Singularity.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 25 2018, 8:30am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine

  From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

  April 14 2018, 5:54am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

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  August 4 2017, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark ABOLISH BORDERS as Revolutionary Futurity | Art Practical

  To witness revolutionary futurity—the belief that social transformation is possible, and begins with a transcendence of the self—in a public space that fosters genuine politics, drive up San Francisco’s 24th Street…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism On the Far Side of the Marchlands (exhibition)

  January 28 2017, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark How Twitter Is Changing Modern Warfare - The Atlantic

  Like most every­thing today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion of northern Iraq—a bloody…

  October 16 2016, 7:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Laboria Cuboniks in Conversation «DIS Magazine

  Laboria Cuboniks is currently a group of 6 women working together online to redefine a feminism adequate to the twenty-first century. They collectively wrote Xenofeminsim: A Politics for Alienation in 2014.

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Portfolio Tate Series: Digital Thresholds: from Information to Agency (public event)

  May 17 2016, 7:23am | Comments

• Bookmark More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species…

  The things we create define us, as a culture and as a species. Yet, so often, as we hurtle into the future, our creations seem to take on a life of…

  April 20 2016, 6:13am | Comments

• Additivism More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown

  April 16 2016, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Unbound: The Politics of Scanning

  There's a great scene in the first episode of House of Cards where the ambitious young journalist Zoe Barnes is sitting on the floor of her rented apartment's living room scanning…

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Staging Aliveness, Challenging Anthropocentrism: Subverting an Art Historical Paradigm | NOEMA -…

  [This text is a shortened version of Hauser, Jens: Chatarra dura, política suave y máquinas mojadas: Hacia un humano innecesario / Hard Scrap, Soft Politics, and Wet Machines: Toward an Unnecessary…

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bibliography Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies 2015 (Critical Climate… by Heather Davis

  January 19 2016, 7:50am | Comments

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  November 10 2015, 5:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Singularity and the anthropocentric bias | Svedic.org

  There is a small problem with that. When these thinkers say something can possibly happen, ordinary people start to believe that it will inevitably happen. Like in politics, constantly suggesting that…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Fillip / Speed Trials: A Conversation about Accelerationist Politics (Mohammad Salemy, Nick…

  Speed Trials: A Conversation about Accelerationist PoliticsMohammad Salemy, Nick Srnicek, and Alex Williams Mohammad Salemy – As a curator, I have been investigating the synthesis of mass computation and mass telecommunication, or what I…

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 18 2015, 8:42am | Comments

• Bookmark #DECELERATE MANIFESTO for a Decelerationist anti-politics - Philosophical Percolations

  Decelerationism leans gingerly towards a future that is basically more of the same, a mod­ern­ity that's going to generate itself no matter what we blog. 1. At the beginning of the second decade…

  June 12 2015, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark After Accelerationism: The Xenofeminist Manifesto - &&& Journal&&& Journal

  It has arrived! The Laboria Cuboniks collective have just released their highly-anticipated manifesto, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation, via their Twitter account.

  June 12 2015, 1:36am | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria

  Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

  August 20 2020, 6:13am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…

  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

  July 29 2020, 1:03am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism — Course Out Now!…

  Following our one-hour promo chat from the other day, I’m very excited to announce that The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism, a collaborative course written by James ‘@meta_nomad‘ Ellis and myself is now live at teachable.com.

  July 24 2020, 12:59pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache NaturSlime w/Ben Woodard

  We interview Ben Woodard and discuss his work focusing on the Naturphilosophie, Schelling, Slime Dynamics, and especially Biopolitics in the wake of Covid-19. Interview by Dustin Breitling === Original video: https://m.soundcloud.com/diffractionscollective/naturslime-wben-woodard Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Wed Jun 3…

  June 3 2020, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Hope Against Hope: An Interview with Out of the Woods on COVID-19,…

  AB: Your approach to climate politics emphasizes what you call “disaster communism.” Can you unpack that phrase? What does each term signify? And what do they mean when you put them…

  May 22 2020, 5:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hope Against Hope: An Interview with Out of the Woods on COVID-19,…

  AB: Your approach to climate politics emphasizes what you call “disaster communism.” Can you unpack that phrase? What does each term signify? And what do they mean when you put them…

  May 22 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Revolutionary Monsters: the Suicide of Identity Politics

  In their discourse on the revolution, Negri and Hardt use the concept of a positive generative monster. Monstrosity arises as otherness, something contrary to the existing order. It is a freak…

  October 20 2018, 8:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The right-wing politics of the “Singularity” | Salon.com

  Silicon Valley is not a place known for its religiosity, yet a remarkable number of tech leaders and workers have an irrational belief in the Singularity.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 25 2018, 8:30am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine

  From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

  April 14 2018, 5:54am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 4 2017, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark ABOLISH BORDERS as Revolutionary Futurity | Art Practical

  To witness revolutionary futurity—the belief that social transformation is possible, and begins with a transcendence of the self—in a public space that fosters genuine politics, drive up San Francisco’s 24th Street…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism On the Far Side of the Marchlands (exhibition)

  January 28 2017, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark How Twitter Is Changing Modern Warfare - The Atlantic

  Like most every­thing today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion of northern Iraq—a bloody…

  October 16 2016, 7:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Laboria Cuboniks in Conversation «DIS Magazine

  Laboria Cuboniks is currently a group of 6 women working together online to redefine a feminism adequate to the twenty-first century. They collectively wrote Xenofeminsim: A Politics for Alienation in 2014.

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Portfolio Tate Series: Digital Thresholds: from Information to Agency (public event)

  May 17 2016, 7:23am | Comments

• Bookmark More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species…

  The things we create define us, as a culture and as a species. Yet, so often, as we hurtle into the future, our creations seem to take on a life of…

  April 20 2016, 6:13am | Comments

• Additivism More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown

  April 16 2016, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Unbound: The Politics of Scanning

  There's a great scene in the first episode of House of Cards where the ambitious young journalist Zoe Barnes is sitting on the floor of her rented apartment's living room scanning…

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Staging Aliveness, Challenging Anthropocentrism: Subverting an Art Historical Paradigm | NOEMA -…

  [This text is a shortened version of Hauser, Jens: Chatarra dura, política suave y máquinas mojadas: Hacia un humano innecesario / Hard Scrap, Soft Politics, and Wet Machines: Toward an Unnecessary…

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bibliography Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies 2015 (Critical Climate… by Heather Davis

  January 19 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 10 2015, 5:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Singularity and the anthropocentric bias | Svedic.org

  There is a small problem with that. When these thinkers say something can possibly happen, ordinary people start to believe that it will inevitably happen. Like in politics, constantly suggesting that…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Fillip / Speed Trials: A Conversation about Accelerationist Politics (Mohammad Salemy, Nick…

  Speed Trials: A Conversation about Accelerationist PoliticsMohammad Salemy, Nick Srnicek, and Alex Williams Mohammad Salemy – As a curator, I have been investigating the synthesis of mass computation and mass telecommunication, or what I…

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 18 2015, 8:42am | Comments

• Bookmark #DECELERATE MANIFESTO for a Decelerationist anti-politics - Philosophical Percolations

  Decelerationism leans gingerly towards a future that is basically more of the same, a mod­ern­ity that's going to generate itself no matter what we blog. 1. At the beginning of the second decade…

  June 12 2015, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark After Accelerationism: The Xenofeminist Manifesto - &&& Journal&&& Journal

  It has arrived! The Laboria Cuboniks collective have just released their highly-anticipated manifesto, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation, via their Twitter account.

  June 12 2015, 1:36am | Comments

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