RAGE AGAINST THE ALGORITHM

On the anniversary of the “Velvet Revolution,” an international meeting of artists, activists & theorists from diverse backgrounds will take in Prague to discuss & plan strategies & tactics for creative emancipation & insurgency under a global regime of algorithmic control & co-option. Subjects will range from Xenofeminism to Sinofuturism, Accelerationism, Alienism, the Anthropocene, Big Data & the “Technological Singularity.”  The three-day colloquium  will be accompanied by a group exhibition (incorporating alt’ai — Qiao Lin, Paul Heinicker, Daria Stupina, Lukáš Likavčan).

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PALOMARES BOMB GRRLS

“They were marching like fugitives around the city. They were hiding yet they didn’t know what was after them. They were in murky depths in a city that now spread out like a swamp. L-Bomb would sometimes close her right eye to see more clearly by bringing an uncoupled luxuriance to her visioning. They threaded themselves in & out of streets, roads, parks, broadways, markets, shopping malls, squares without ever being individual entities. They suffered the abundance of a kind of inexhaustible intermediate state. They were like animals of oblivion, & this was a literal fact too as all ancestors end up with apes & their ancestors, ultimately the stars. They were like creatures rooting around, anyone watching would assume there was some sort of fickleness in play as they would suddenly swing round & make off in a completely new direction to the one they had been following, as if thoughts were being freshly corrupted & their despair a butterfly.”

PALOMARES BOMB GRRLS marks the return of the legendary Neo-Attack! author JOHNNY PULP. Continue reading “PALOMARES BOMB GRRLS”

GUERRILLA SEMIOTIX

EVERYTHING IS SAFE, SOLID & UNQUESTIONABLE! EVERYTHING WILL BE THE SAME FOR EVER & EVER!

Alienist Broadsheet #8 (October 2018) download PDF

EXPERIMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AS SUBVERSIVE FORCE

It was never a question of WHEN WILL THE REVOLUTION BEGIN? A revolution has been in progress for over two hundred years. The question is HOW HAS THIS REVOLUTION CONTINUED TO BE ABDUCTED, BEHIND THE SPECTACLE OF A FEW MOMENTARY “ERUPTIONS” – events left to yellow on the pages of history books? Decade after decade of pornographic commodification has transformed the “historical aura” of transgression & emancipation into a new form of impoverished labour. This production of self-alienation has entered a vicious circle which masquerades as the predominant “revolutionary thought” of today: dissociated to such a degree that it is capable not only of experiencing its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order (Benjamin), but that it is capable of doing so repeatedly, ad infinitum.

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