Simon Tyszko: The Unfun Fair Too
Simon TyszkoThe Unfun Fair TooExhibition: 10 July – 10 August, Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pmThe Unfun Fair expands in our Arch Space as Simon Tyszko develops new pieces within the second half of his...
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Simon TyszkoThe Unfun Fair TooExhibition: 10 July – 10 August, Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pmThe Unfun Fair expands in our Arch Space as Simon Tyszko develops new pieces within the second half of his...
View ArticleThe Shadow of Ikea-ification Falls On Us All
A recent exhibition, The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside, interrogated what pale blue fragments lie in the wake of the whole earth’s broken promise. Review by Hannah Black...
View ArticleEvery Participant’s Dream of Violence
2012 was a great year for the hoodie In May Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg visits Wall Street; a rare occasion. His flight from the West Coast to New York City is justified by the imminent launch of...
View ArticleProvocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology
Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media AnthologyEdited by Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles and Oliver Lerone SchultzPublished in Association with Post-Media Lab BooksBuy on Amazon UK...
View ArticleDigital Solidarity
Digital SolidarityBy Felix StalderSeries editors: Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles & Oliver Lerone SchultzPublished in association with Post-Media Lab BooksBuy on Amazon UK...
View ArticleClean Digital Dancing
If dance becomes dance only by way of thought, as Stamatia Portanova suggests in her new book Moving Without a Body, what happens to movement and the body, when they’re abstracted into the digital?...
View ArticleChanging Our Minds: A Journey to the Centre of the Brain
Humans make their own history, but contemporary philosophy seems to be adapting the neo-colonial perspectives of neuroscience to dismiss the idea this could ever be a conscious and system-antagonistic...
View ArticleNuff Aura: Absolute Artwork Meets Absolute Desperation
[This little screed was written as a facebook post but seemed worth giving a minutely longer half life... It responds to this article:...
View ArticleThe Technical Composition of Conceptualism
If the last four decades of protracted crisis stem from the increasing productivity of capitalist technology, how does culture index this and how (else) might poets respond to the rise of the machines?...
View ArticleMOOCs - Herding education to the slaughter?
Massively open online courses (MOOCs) have been sold as the future of higher education but there is more than a whiff of ‘primitive accumulation’ at the new frontier. Dominic Pettman examines the...
View ArticleWanna Play? Game Over
Sometimes ethical claims about public space and 'free expression' conceal private interests and violence against the oppressed. Jacob Bard Rosenberg on the case of Dries Verhoeven and some problematic...
View ArticleBruce Willis, Irigaray, and the Aesthetics of Space Travel
'Or for instance, if you were crushed to death by hundreds of boxes of chocolate....' John Russell takes the (w)hole system apart and refuses to put it back together again…In his essay ‘The Pineal Eye’...
View ArticleBurning Dwelling Thinking
After the Insurrection that was to come The Invisible Committee’s À nos amis assesses the defeats and 'permanent catastrophe' which never stopped. Alberto Toscano’s extended review, ahead of the book’s...
View ArticleSynthetic Dreams: Gender, Modernity and Art Silk Stockings
The world’s first synthetic fabric, rayon, made from congealed vegetable matter and human labour, was spun into artificial silk stockings and worn by the same women that mass produced it. Hannah...
View ArticleAthens and the Bankers
The Greek crisis is often diminished to a simple story of Debt versus the People. Richard B moves between the symptomatic details of everyday life in Athens today and the deep history of the crisis to...
View ArticleUniversal Discredit
This arresting essay presents an in depth account of the so-called 'system-upgrade' of welfare reform in the UKplc: Universal CreditReposted from: http://de-arrest.me/ For the sword outwears its...
View ArticleThe Anthropocene in 90 Minutes
In Molecular Red Mackenzie Wark collides Platonov and Bogdanov, to produce anthropocene levels of low-theory. But are these very distinctive soviet thinkers really compatible, and is acceleration...
View ArticleINSIDE OUT
Marx famously described capitalism as mad and inverted. Daniel Spaulding re-examines speculative realism through an Adornian prism to disclose a thought of ‘the great outdoors’ beyond capital that is...
View ArticleCesura//Acceso Call for Issue 2
Call for Issue 2. Corrupting Desires! Technique, Performance and ControlEmail to: cesura.acceso@gmail.comWe are currently accepting submissions for Issue 2 of Cesura//Acceso, to be published in June...
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