This A-side of A Rational Tangle, released in 2015 on The Death of Rave has the most beautiful drop. Instead of “driving” one should describe techno as “pulling patterns”, I have proposed on the basis of Henning Baer’s machinic rubbing (L. Fakegruber: A new rave writing term for “driving”. In: Shituationist Institute, 12/6/2019), A1 of…
We have said it before, the app cult has to be stopped. So how is the current discussion about facebook data breaches connected to this? To sum up the privacy problem of social media: Users give access to their data and to the data of their “friends” by using all these little tests and games,…
After Artistic value in digital communication (2016), here’s a new essay over at Shades Magazine on value in the digital sphere, on the economy of the free* services (*paid for by the digital labour performed by the users). Excerpt: how to organise the users that are facing the most powerful treat: things that cost somethings…
At the Chaos Communication Congress we did a session with WiseUp. It was part of the program of Reclaim Club Culture in the 1Komona assembly. The title was “Sound radicality and club communality”. We recorded it, you can stream it here: We also produced a reader/zine for this session, we share it here: club panel…
Shituationist Institute and WiseUp did a session together at the Chaos Communication Congress #34C3. It was part of the program of Reclaim Club Culture in the 1Komona assembly. The title was “Sound radicality and club communality”. We recorded it and will make it available in the future. On the congress we produced a reader for…
For DIS Magazine, Rob Horning reflects in Fear of Content on content online in relation to the content of artworks in Susan Sontags essay “Against Interpretation”: Sontag thought that “to interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world,” but the pox of internet content overwhelms by demanding too little of the intellect, by not having enough…
Remember when all the hip art students were suddenly carrying around french insurrectionist literature by the Invisible Committee and Tiqqun? One could guess it was over in 2010, after that Fox news commercial (insurrectionism became mainstream?), all we can say is, that on the surface only some ironic ripples were left online. Netartists on dump.fm…
check this: By queer atonality we mean the notion that queerness can be abstracted to mean deviation as such, aleatoriness as such, or openness as such, and thus, through such extreme abstraction, queerness may be assigned as a proper monicker for biological and even ontological systems. In other words, if biology is that thing that…
Our text “Post scriptum”, which is about shituationism, is published in the conference proceedings of the KISMIF conference in Porto 2014. Read it in this free ebook: here, p. 261-263, or download our text as a pdf-extract.
part 1 (written in 2007, published as textfile #412 of the Cult of the Dead Cow) part 2 (a follow up, 5 years later, published 2012 on the Shituationist Institute) and now part 3 (first published on el.blogsport.de): On cargo cult and gadget cult. „Rather than give out laptops (they‘re actually Motorola Zoom tablets plus…
The new conference and party of Datacide next week in Berlin. More info at datacide.c8.com DATACIDE 12 RELEASE PARTY & CONFERENCE in the spaces of subversiv e.v. Brunnenstrasse 7, Berlin-Mitte October 20th The new issue will be available for the first time at the event! Party starts at 11pm with live sets & DJ’s: Xanopticon…
we heard you like berlin, art and politics…. read: Rosa Perutz about the Berlin Biennale.
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