My paper on Stafford Beer’s “Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism,” which was presented at the #POM 2024 conference, has finally been published. If you’re interested in #cybernetics, #Marxism, #diagrams, and #art-research, you may want to check it out: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

My paper on Stafford Beer’s “Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism,” which was presented at the #POM 2024 conference, has finally been published. If you’re interested in #cybernetics, #Marxism, #diagrams, and #art-research, you may want to check it out: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions! My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a…

I finally got a hard copy of this rare report – the state of telegraphy (and telex networks) in Chile by 1970. A key document to understand infrastructural undertakings that unfolded right after that #Chile #Telecommunications #Technology #History

Part of an ongoing conversation between @mbfazi.bsky.social and me on AI/LLMs as "synthetic media" -- more to come!

André Leroi-Gourhan was a pioneering French archaeologist, anthropologist, and philosopher whose work deeply influenced French philosophy of technology through his studies of human evolution, tools, and culture. 1/

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Lauren Sonder at Bardo Projektraum #Berlin

Today we commemorate the passing of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most original voices in contemporary philosophy of technology. 1/

En su vida doméstica, como en la interacción con sus amigos e incluso con quienes eran simples conocidos, creo que se puede decir que la principal característica de Karl Marx era su buen humor desatado y su simpatía ilimitada. jacobinlat.com/2022/01/algu...

Noch nie habe ich das von Piketty beschriebene Problem r > g anschaulicher erklärt gesehen als in diesem Video von Gary Stevenson:

30 years ago, over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered in the Srebrenica genocide. Today, politicians will say "never again". But they are letting it happen, again, in Gaza. We remember all victims of genocide, and vow to build a world that respects the humanity of all.

I just read the entire piece, and I must say that I look forward to seeing it become a reality

The monetary commons is an idea whose time has come! monetarycommons.com

big fan on Ray’s work, this is a real treat. he’s basically rewriting the dialectic of enlightenment for the present soundcloud.com/socialdiscip...

N. Katherine Hayles discusses her background science, literature and skepticism with David Beer. Watch the full interview here: mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/06/14/n...

A tiny but perhaps hopeful break from all this war sh*t. Last weekend at the Miss Read festival in Berlin, I found a true gem: E. E. Kisch's /Karl Marx in Karlsbad/, published by the Finnish Rab-Rab Press. Let’s seek hope

❤️ the Madleen / ❤️ LA

by the physics of forces, which is very important. Good. “On this basis” means: a force is fundamentally related to other forces, that is, a force has no essence, but is defined by the fact that it affects other forces and is affected by other forces.

When talking about AI, we should resist the idea that the ‹I› stands for anything resembling human or animal ‹intelligence› – a concept btw historically deeply intertwined with eugenics & ‹scientific› racism. Rather, this ‹intelligence› seems to be the same as in the term ‹military intelligence› 3/

My first attempt to grapple with Anders here, more to come brooklynrail.org/2024/07/fiel...

I’m teaching myself open source publishing, i.e., designing books and the like with non-proprietary tools. It’s great! In my case, web-to-print techniques based on the Showdown and paged.js libraries. All inspired by the Belgian group Open Source Publishing: osp.kitchen/about

I'm very pleased to share Tunnel & Fortress, a new live coached training series bringing the art of system administration to those with no prior experience in the field. Participants will deploy, garden & harden servers to keep their communities safe. video.nikau.io/w/sXj2kQ8vQo... #exitbigtech

¿Eres simondoniano? Ven al Congreso Internacional Simondoniano organizado por el #SeminarioTF en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNAM. Revisa la convocatoria: stf.filos.unam.mx/2024/12/cong...

I was wondering what happened to all those people working on artificial life as an alternative to #AI - turns out, they're still here and still doing extremely cool work: "Genetic Algorithm Runs On Atari 800 XL" hackaday.com/2025/02/21/g...

"🚨BREAKING🚨 On March 25th Tufts PhD grad worker Rumeysa Ozturk, a Fulbright scholar, was ambushed by ICE on her way to an Iftar dinner with friends ...first known abduction of a student activist in Boston. We must stand together against the deportation machine." www.instagram.com/p/DHpqYVIgl3I/

How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975)

Freshly out: "Becoming minor, virtuality and counter-modelling" (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...), a short comment on the fabulous article by Chris Borbach and Max Kanderske with the title "Counter-practices: Understanding sensor datafication through subversive action" doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Life reminds me that the cornerstone or spine—I can’t decide which metaphor is better—of knowledge and research are librarians. What a fundamental profession for our cultures

I think there is something fundamentally troubleing in Patricia Piccinini’s posthuman worlds: All the creatures seem to be kinda of white—literally pinkish skins with red hair. All of them. So all this praise from major philosophical figures, whom I admire, makes me a little uneasy

Many people outside the US – especially in Europe – criticize and laugh at Trump’s decision to rename the Golf of Mexico. But many of them have been using the word America as a synonym for the US for decades, even though they know …

I see that Luisa Neubauer wore a protest dress on the red carpet of the Berlinale. She is angry that fascism is spreading in Germany and the US. But she distanced herself from Greta when she protested against fascism being inflicted on non-western brown people. Luisa is such a fake activist

“In fact”—Kate Crawford writes in her Atlas of AI—“the concept of intelligence has done inordinate harm over centuries and has been used to justify relations of domination from slavery to eugenics.”

From the Archive: Think piece by Paul Feigelfeld and Jussi Parikka, 'Kittler on the NSA' - an introduction to Friedrich Kittler’s short text on the NSA (National Security Agency) titled "No Such Agency" originally published in 1986. www.theoryculturesociety.org/kittler-on-t...

This is Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism (1973) – my redrawing of it. If you want to learn more about it, I invite you to read chapter five of my dissertation, where I explain and discuss the model in detail: doi.org/10.18452/29151 #Cybernetics #Models #Capitalism

This is Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism (1973) – my redrawing of it. If you want to learn more about it, I invite you to read chapter five of my dissertation, where I explain and discuss the model in detail: doi.org/10.18452/29151 #Cybernetics #Models #Capitalism

I really like Sybille Krämer insistence—following Matthew Kirschenbaum—that computers are forensic machines

The current political discussion in Germany is whether the Christian Democrats would make an alliance with the AfD – the far-right, Musk-loving, Nazi-like local party. As a Chilean I can only say that in hard times the Christian Democrats always make deals with the (extremely) bad guys

And I think that thinking of information as tension, as the potential that allows two or more disparate realities to become one, is an essential starting point for imagining, designing, and then developing radically emancipatory technological futures …

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism #3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

Simondon says that information is tension. Moreover, that information “is the tension between two disparate reals, it is the signification that will emerge when an operation of individuation will discover the dimension according to which two disparate reals can become a system.”

Take this advice and use discount code RESOLUTION30 to get 30% off Late Fascism for the next 24 hours www.versobooks.com/products/262...

As much as I cherish Mark Fisher’s work in my heart, I have to say that at least since his death, it’s clear that the opposite is true. Tech capitalism reclaimed the future and regularly shows us that it can bring it to us … 1/4

Man, it's so awesome that we have an english archive of Marx's journalism during the 1848 revolutions, a great primary source of historical events. marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx...

Alejandro Zambra, *Mudanza* (first page, 2014 edition)

Simondon against the Berlin School of Media Studies

I just found out, via John Merrick (not here apparently), about this new book, which seems to be really interesting – especially for those interested in the history of the New World and the scope of the notion of America: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326...

From my latest Anti-Capitalist Chronicles podcast, Revolt and Recession: The Global Crisis of Higher Education and Work. [7/8] youtu.be/dseBBrRiK20?...

I just finished my belated reading of Yuk #Hui’s *Recursivity and Contingency* (2019). I wished I had read it before or during my PhD work, but I simply didn’t get around to it. It’s really a great and illuminating work / 1

Following Stiegler and Simondon, Yuk Hui writes: “The artist is not someone who produces a work of taste, but rather someone who is capable of and responsible for creating a circuit that allows a transindividuation between the I and the we […]”