With more and more urgency we need to tell another, non-heroic, fact-and-material based story of technology, a Carrier Bag variant of it, a “way of trying to describe what is in fact going on” (Ursula Le Guin 1986).
There is a strange disconnect in tech’s recent effects on politics and culture.
While culture and art feel constrained by data populism, scandal management and market opportunism, politics is on a rampage. Nothing seems impossible, from invading or selling Greenland or Gaza, abolishing central banks or food banks, to making…
Introduction
Josue Truong and Leilani Ellis
Focus on “Art in the Age of Average”
mid-life, mid-art, mid-journey
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The hyperreal iconoclasm exploit
Blake Cruz
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Of the future
Sky Dyer
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Politics of Latent Space
Korbin Walters
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Vectofascism
Victoria Hanna
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The Only Flowering Plant in the Ocean
Macie Stein and Alayna Grant
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Protocol Art
Tiffany Yoder
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Art in ever Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.
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Unreal Data
Esteban Hood
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Verbal bombs and sonic resilience
Irene Bailey
Focus on “Dronomation”
Since at Gamer’s Pace. No Pause nor Reset Button
Princess Greer
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Cult of Lethality
Aniya Richardson
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Consumer off-the-shelf models
Leilani Ellis
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Synthetic Battlefield in the Time of Dynamic Maps
Novah Phillips
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A low-cost flight beyond the necessary of post-digital warfare
Haven Webb
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Crimes of Dispassion – Autonomous Violence and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing
Novah Ross
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Surrogate Data and Ungovernable Data
Cristian Fitzgerald
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Eingesetzt Nets – Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and Perspectives Politics
Rodrigo Howe
Unreal Creations. Generative AI as premonition
Kira Abbott
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and To Since then
Sage Gross
The Human Unconscious
Brittany Lambert
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Dreamworlds of Platform Capitalism
Rogelio Hunter
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