Technology
Is Meta a company, or the general state of being online? What subliminal messaging is influencing me as I fall asleep to ASMR? How do algorithmically curated choices interact with our free will? Do I gain comfort watching mukbang videos and cleaning tutorials, or anxiety? How are teen hype houses on social media influencing elections? Could video games be used as social experiments for implementing new economic systems? Can we hack the digital classroom? What, if any, online experiences remain that don’t relate back to a consumptive practice? Tech now defines us––not the other way around. It is not just a neutral instrument, a means to an end, but has become our way of understanding the world, evolving at a pace that is beyond our cumulative imagination.
Always On My Mind
Daniel Felstead with Jenn Leung
Master linguist Nicki Minaj considers the significance of Elon Musk's first successful Neuralink brain chip implant.
The Future of Life
Jonas Lund
Embrace the security of AI systems dictating every decision, from what to eat to how much you sleep
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The Bots (Spanish Market)
Eva & Franco Mattes
The following interview is a true account using words from the workers that social media keeps hidden.
Moscow Hotel is sick of your tears
Ruba Al-Sweel
Ruba Al-Sweel connects our physical and spiritual enmeshment with tech to a collage of ancient, esoteric knowledge.
Counterfeit Poast
Jon Rafman
Take a moment to exit your usual filter bubble and algorithmic echo chamber to enter the universe of Jon Rafman's Counterfeit Poast.
Literally No Place
Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung
Julia Fox avatar is back. Now she takes us on a journey into the AI utopian versus AI doomer cyberwarfare bedlam. Watch this video before picking a side.
The Metaverse in Janky Capitalism
Daniel Felstead
This is a grotesque, cringe, messy, perverse, and sublime analysis of the future of the internet.
Up Next
Eva & Franco Mattes
Sahar Tabar's image may be undeclared parody, but it's also the story of competing powers and unlikely alliances.
Syzygy
September 5th, 2006
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
Are Mark Zuckerberg and his silicon valley tech bro progeny the modern incarnation of Ronald Reagan, Pastor Jerry Falwell and the 1980s conservative Moral Majority movement?
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DKP is Market Socialism
Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
How virtual socialism works in massive multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft.
Bina48
DIS
Before ChatGPT and Bing AI (aka Sydney) there was Bina48.
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The Slow Red Pill
Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
How does the Far Right get run-of-the-mill conservatives to cross over?
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On Platforms
Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
How the platforms we use every day consolidate the worst extremes of neoliberal ideology.
After Scarcity
Bahar Noorizadeh
After Scarcity explores cybernetics in the USSR when computation ≠ total financialization.
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The Bots (Turkish Market)
Eva & Franco Mattes
The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.
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The Bots (English Market)
Eva & Franco Mattes
The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.
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The Bots (Greek Market)
Eva & Franco Mattes
The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.
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We Have To Meet Things Halfway: Graham Harman
Derek G. Larson
Jon challenges Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos while speeding through a data center.
Inside Pionen
Emma Charles
Preservation and paranoia, inside Pionen; an interview with its architect, Albert France-Lanord.
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The Bots (Greek Market)
Eva & Franco Mattes
The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.
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The Bots (Arab Market)
Eva & Franco Mattes
The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.
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The Bots (Italian Market)
Eva & Franco Mattes
The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.
Gretchen Bender: TV, Text and Image Focus Group
Dis
Gretchen Bender’s TV, Text and Image was the precursor to today’s ever-present memes and Tweets.
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Southern Gothic
Derek G. Larson
Imagine William Faulkner had access to lysergic acid diethylamide and lived in an abandoned mall.
The Drone is the Message
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
It’s not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It’s the drone.
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Beijing
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
Everyone has their opinions. Our computers soon will have theirs.
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Spite
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
The A.I. embodied in Casey Jane Ellison wants us to know she’s in charge.
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Panera's Basilisk
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
Soon he began to realize where there’s knowledge, there’s a knower.
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Dust
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
Boundaries have always been porous, mistaking them as anything but may just be our undoing.
Classrooms
Shawn Maximo
If architecture mediates learning, what does that mean in the era of remote schooling, where a technologically-dependent student body has become increasingly decentralized?
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Controlled Opposition
Matt Goerzen & Ed Fornieles
Investigating the tricks trolls play.
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Seasonal Associate By Heike Geissler
Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)
10,000 Words from Seasonal Associate, Heike Geissler's labor memoir for the Amazon Era.
What is Blockchain?
Simon Denny
Are networked nodes working together really the same as equal political participation?