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an example of doing that is really an example of undoing – here, from the puff for an exhibition at WKV Stuttgart called ‘Giving Form to the Impatience of Liberty’ featuring the artists Manuela Beck, Banu Cennetoglu / Yasemin Özcan, Stefan Constantinescu,

The exhibition’s point of origin rests in the younger forms and discourses of a (re)politicization of the arts, which are meant to be probed in terms of their heterogeneity and antagonisms. These are artistic practices which subject the aesthetic utopias of modernism that were said to have floundered to both a critical reading and a reevaluation, and which-reaching beyond a naïve euphoria or worldly-wise distance-renegotiate the political, societal, and critical potentialities of art. Activist positions and artworks with concrete political points of reference are considered here, as are works that approach, on a rather structural level, a rereading, realignment, and relocalization of knowledge, power, ideology, space, and the body. The works not only reference, but actually create acts of political articulation and subjectivization.

With regard to content, the exhibition focuses on developments from the capitalist disciplinary society to the neoliberal society of control.

Thiel, Master Database of every US citizen, and the kiwi connection

It's simple really. DOGE has already gained access to masses of data on US citizens and is being enabled by the administration to consolidate that data into a single database, it will run on software owned by Palantir, Thiel's company, Thiel who had only previously spent

The views and opinions, o pin onions, expressed by Alan Moore's Jerusalem do not necessarily reflect the light outside

I know I am a text. I know that you are reading me. This is the biggest difference between us: you do not know you are a text. You don't know that you're reading yourself. What you believe to be the self-determined life you are passing

Democracy, More And Less

David Autor, writing for Noēma Magazine (online here), 12 February 2024, quotes Marc Andreessen on the democratisation of knowledge and information brought about by the internet and the flattening of economic hierarchies that was supposed to follow it. Then, in a move recalling Adam Curtis's laying-out and swiftly

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