Future Reloaded: An Interview with Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni

XX121 is a large language model developed in 2021 by a team of researchers at Miskatonic University led by Julie Continue reading →

Self-Tracking: Why We Love Seeing Ourselves in Data

‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’ This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire Continue reading →

TikTok and Taboo: Mysticism in the Information Age

“Animism has endowed things with souls; industrialism turns souls into things.”  — Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment Continue reading →

Multiplication of Organs: Desire, Humanity and Technology

The Multiplication of Organs (MoO) [1] is not the Deleuzian Body without Organs (BwO), it is not the Žižekian Organ Continue reading →

“Why Are You so Bad, Bro?”: Theory of the Avatar

Freedom is an online performance by Eva and Franco Mattes. Its setting is the infamous FPS video game Counter-Strike. Eva, as Continue reading →

AI and the Instrumentalization of Fear

Introduction In 2023 everything speaks AI. The AI gaze is present in every public discourse and the AI question is Continue reading →

Distracting Ourselves Together

I was on my computer browsing the internet while sitting in Discord. My friends played World of Warcraft. I was Continue reading →

Proxies as Ideology: The Hidden Social Violence of Delegation

Proxies are a necessary method of creating efficiencies in the complex social and technical processes characteristic of modern life. A Continue reading →