The final Japanese pressing from my recent Shinjuku shop trip - absolute classic from 1965 on Impulse with the pale blue backed cover. Sounds as good as it looks!

And another Japanese pressing of a classic from Disk Union, Shinjuku:

Picked up some sweet vintage Japanese pressings of essential albums. This one from Disk Union in Shinjuku:

Found the Japanese pressing of this great album from 1982 in Nishihara, Shibuya - has dated very well with its post-punk blend of afrobeat and indie-jazz.

Not sure whether a ‘Digital Art Museum’ would really deliver but #teamLab’s Borderless at Azabudai Hills, Tokyo certainly delivers state-of-the-art spectacle. Just as fascinating here to people-watch how visitors interact with the flux of images. We’re a long way from the Lumière Brothers …. or?

The final film in the new Melanie Gilligan series - Home Together (2020-2022) - is now available on the excellent Weird Economies site. My accompanying essay can be found here too: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

This week’s Melanie Gilligan film on Weird Economies is The Bay Area Protests (2016-2022), a compelling exploration of three moments of widespread protest in the Bay Area between 2009 and 2011. More in my accompanying piece: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...

My new piece for Weird Economies on the films of Melanie Gilligan - to accompany a curated series of films - a new upload weekly - up to 21 Dec 2025. weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

Hito Steyerl at the MAK Vienna: ‘Humanity Had the Bullet Go in Through One Ear and Out Through the Other’ - featuring Hell Yeah We Fuck Die and Mechanical Kurds.

Sahej Rahal: MYTHMACHINE (2022) at the Kunstraum Vienna.

Femke Herregraven: The Murmur of the Dying (2023) - at the Kunstraum Vienna

Found this gem hidden away in the local used vinyl shop - great bit of Fela from 1977!

Blown away to see the display of Calculating Empires by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler

Paris - Le Monde selon l’AI @jeudepaume - full of good things.

🎬 Call for Papers 🎬 We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more! Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa Please share! #CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky

QMUL cut 200 roles in the past two years: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s... #SaveHE #UKHE

We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.

I’m organizing an international workshop next week at Roskilde University: Speculating the Future: Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities. We’ll explore how speculative fiction helps us understand speculative finance & future-making. The keynote will be delivered by Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside.

Not sure what my iphone made of the huge #averysinger pieces at the Serralves Foundation today - so many good exhibitions in a stunning setting.

The event page is now available for the AARG event on 20 May on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education. Register here - www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

Record Store Day - all my @acertainratio.bsky.social vinyl went missing years ago - nice to pick up To Each on RSD. The Fox and Winter Hill 🔥.

Today is the day: Financial nihilism.

Launch of Finance Aesthetics - 8th April 5-7pm, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @maxhaiven.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - register here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae... @goldsmithspress.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....

Excited to be part of this super collection of articles on Cinema and Financial Speculation that has just appeared in French with Images Secondes. Some excellent pieces to catch up on over the holiday break: imagessecondes.fr/index.php/04...

Wfh day. Currently spinning:

Today is, believe it or not, the official publication date of “Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary.” The perfect Christmas gift 🎁

Excited to be part of this super collection of articles on Cinema and Financial Speculation that has just appeared in French with Images Secondes. Some excellent pieces to catch up on over the holiday break: imagessecondes.fr/index.php/04...

We made a round-up on the other place (it’s nearly our anniversary on this app, but we didn’t post much of the events in the 1st half of the year) Break-ins, court cases, bailiffs, eviction of toddlers. But most of all: many who chose QMUL to be so much better than this twitter.com/qm_ucu/statu...

Last Thursday, over 1,000 people packed UCL's Logan Hall to listen to Thomas Piketty, Gillian Tett and Ash Sarkar at our CCS Inaugural Annual Conversation. Thank you all for an incredible evening, and stay tuned!

Went to the book launch for Tim’s new book this week - exciting work on film/cultural geography/precarity - big recommend!

Brilliant subject for a book. I was excited when I first heard about this. I look forward to reviewing it soon…

Very excited to announce the publication of 10(3). The issue includes articles on the asset condition, Apartheid financing, and Insurtech, plus a forum on postcapitalist finance and some cracking review articles. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Loved this recent piece*. Which AI-themed or -generated short films do you use with ug students? I already have a few thoughts but will have missed loads. #AIimages #artistsmovingimage *by Lawrence Lek

ICYMI: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (2024) Chapters on the financial regime and the financial image, financial gaze, financial time, financial space, financial performativity, via Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Petzold, Isaac Julien and other anti-wolves of Wall Street!

Currently reading. Anyone out there see the original exhibitions in Vienna and Tabakalera San Sebastian-Donostia?

I created a starter pack for the political, cultural, social study of money and finance. It is incomplete and provisional. Please suggest additions/updates! go.bsky.app/3BhMAZq

And three away points …. ⚒️ 🥳🥳🥳

💙 My baby is here 💙 ILUMINACE 2/2024 - OPEN ACCESS - TEXTS & AV ESSAYS What if we stopped asking how computers shape moving images and asked: how is computer iconography represented in audiovisual media? Dive into the complex portraits of computer labor in film & TV. See: bit.ly/3YMMG5m

Working with my final year student group on #HarunFarocki and #HitoSteyerl and remembered this fine short intro to their work, via the timely exhibition put on at London's Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in 2020: Life Captured Still. ropac.net/video/12-har...

Not to be missed - see you there:

Here's a Critical AI starter pack. I didn't see one so I made it! Likely to be missing people so please suggest folks, yourself included! go.bsky.app/UPULf1S

Really terrific @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with Andrew deWaard about financialisation of contemporary media, based on his excellent @ucpress.bsky.social volume, 'Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture', which is open access - link in reply newbooksnetwork.com/derivative-m...

First Transnational Technocultures Symposium 9.12.24 in Naples #critt with @whkchun.bsky.social

Finance! Also an interest of mine! Two publications coming out in the very near future: the monograph “The Birth of the Financial Thriller - Making a Killing in the 1970s” and the co-edited anthology/glossary “Finance Aesthetics” with ca 50 amazing contributors (mitpress.mit.edu/978191598319...)

If postwar media were characterized by Spectacle, and media of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century by an age of surveillance, then we are now entering a new phase… Trevor Paglen [ paglen.studio ] e-flux journal www.e-flux.com/journal/147/...