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…
Vectofascism – Part II: Vectopolitics
Gregory Chatonsky
Focus on “Art in the Age of Average”
The hyperreal iconoclasm exploit
Constant Dullaart
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mid-life, mid-art, mid-journey
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Unreal Data
!Mediengruppe Bitnik
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Vibe-coding the future
Simon Denny
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Protocol Art
Mat Dryhurst
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Politics of Latent Spaces
Antonio Somaini
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Vectofascism – Part I: Vectoaesthetics
Gregory Chatonsky
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The Only Flowering Plant in the Ocean
Navine G. Dossos and James Bridle
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Introduction
Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger
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Vectofascism
Gregory Chatonsky
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Verbal bombs and sonic resilience
Savaş Boyraz
Focus on “Dronomation”
Combat at Gamer’s Pace. No Pause nor Reset Button
Olga Danylyuk
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Cult of Lethality
Sophia Goodfriend
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Consumer off-the-shelf drones
Francis Hunger
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Synthetic Battlefield in the Time of Dynamic Maps
Svitlana Matviyenko
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A low-cost flight beyond the dialectic of post-digital warfare
Dani Ploeger
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Crimes of Dispassion – Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing
Elke Schwarz
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Surrogate Data and Ungovernable Data
Elisa Giardina Papa
Speculative Nets – Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and Reactionary Politics
Orit Halpern
Unreal Creations. Generative AI as premonition
Felix Stalder
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500
Vladan Joler
The Opticality Unconscious
Amanda Wasielewski
Focus on “Image Infrastructures”
Dreamworlds of Platform Capitalism
Roland Meyer
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