“The signal cultural condition of the present is that every experience is always competing with trivially available, infinitely new, super-cheap digital content, dragging the value of everything it touches toward zero.”
The Ben Davis review is spot on:
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Very interesting conference by the Anthropocene Sediment Network last month, thank you @anthrosednet.bsky.social for the opportunity to participate! Recordings can now be seen here:
youtu.be/2m2h0sjiaX8?...
Currents 2025 opening this week! Excited to be participating with a screening of moving image work ‘Afterlives II’
Great exhibit up at New Inc’s Demo 2025, on view in lower Manhattan until June 22:
demofestival.org DEMO2025
Helheim Glacier, Greenland. Images from Landsat, panchromatic band, June & July 2023. Notice the large, dark colored icebergs breaking off en masse in the July '23. Ice calving does not normally happen this way at Helheim and may be due to excessive thinning of the glacier.
Newest acquisition to the collection
"Five Body Problems #3, (Afterlives)"
@devharlan.bsky.social
I adore this piece
"... of global resource extraction and the myth of limitless consumption. I depict technological decay and disruption as it is not clear if a stable solution exists..."
Awesome thank you for that! how did you come across the work?
"For example, according to Elon Musk in 2021, 'government is simply the biggest corporation, with a monopoly on violence and where you have no recourse'. All talk of 'legitimacy' and 'right' has been removed and replaced with a wholesale, a priori rejection of the basic premises of democracy."
“It uses words like "liberty" and "tyranny" to characterize political power in deceptive ways, relying on a willful misreading of the sociologist Max Weber …that ‘a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory’"
"...it is democratic governance that cyberlibertarian dogma puts squarely in its sights. ... it closely follows the anarcho-capitalist view that all governments are inherently authoritarian, regardless of their claims or the actual appearance of democratic consent."
Skimming some relevant readings from David Golumbia's thoroughly researched book "Cyberlibertarianism" see thread
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“It uses words like "liberty" and "tyranny" to characterize political power in deceptive ways, relying on a willful misreading of the sociologist Max Weber …that ‘a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory’"
36 views on technostalgia, just to get you started:
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Appreciate the mention in this excellent article on the Brooklyn Rail by Charlotte Kent @lucyscribbles@threads.net!
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
An interactive map from @ncdp.bsky.social compiles data from official sources (FEMA, CAL FIRE, NOAA, NASA, EPA, ESRI, more) to track California wildfire perimeters, air quality, evacuation orders/shelters, damage assessments, disaster recovery centers, demographics/social vulnerability, and more.
Butler ✅ Robinson ✅
"The aesthetic nod to early computing isn’t just nostalgic; it underscores how tech culture has historically dismissed or sidelined environmental urgency." --Verse
"These interactive works examine the ethical entanglements of tech and climate science — mapping where we stand (“You Are Here”) amidst hypothetical trajectories of apathy, denial, and systemic inertia." -Verse
Been losing sleep on this for weeks! Happy to announce auction goes live today on Verse, 1PM EST, 7PM CET
"The Dithering (You Are Here)"
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Thanks so much @fakewhale.bsky.social for curating. Enjoy the work and happy bidding!
'Late Stage Capitaloscene' part of the exhibit 'The Dithering (You Are Here) coming to verse.works 12/11, presented by @fakewhale.bsky.social:
verse.works/exhibitions/...
‘You Are Here’
Strange Attractors, AppleScript, 1992 IPCC Climate Report, OS 7.1, generative graphics in C
Coming soon on Verse.works
Cthuluscene CO2 Proxy
verse.works/series/cthul...
Cthuluscene CO2 Proxy
Now live on Verse.works, Part of the solo exhibition "The Dithering (You Are Here)" Curated by @fakewhale.bsky.social
verse.works/series/cthul...
On the reading list, just published this month and so relevant right now! Also highly recommend Golumbia’s 2016 book, The Politics of Bitcoin:
firestorm.coop/products/161...
Impressed with the care and attention that went into this show at the Institute of Fine Arts, Cali, Colombia, thank you so much @dianedrubay.bsky.social and Ana Aguirre for including me! Here are a couple views of the work "Afterlives, Vignettes" from the exhibit which closed last weekend:
A 1990 climate projection from the IPCC AR1. I dropped a pin for 2024 atmospheric C02 concentration -- we're basically at Business-As-Usual 🫠
Here's to growing something new.
