"I adore trash, cheap plastic objects, cracktros, single-purpose workarounds, fakes, forgeries, bump keys, and slim-jims. (1) Things either made as interference themselves or the symptoms of an imperfect world. Evidence of chaos and our _...Read More_

>"Kahle, the Internet Archive’s founder, tells me that he wishes more of the web was shaped like the Dead Archive. “What you’re looking at,” he said, “is from an era of the Internet that I think is best typified by what Tim Berners-Lee _...Read More_

"People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others".

>"Strelka Mag — Exploring new urban conditions. The online magazine of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design."

Associated with Gulf Futurism, a movement of artists commenting on the accelerationist state of the Arabian Peninsula, Monira Al Qadiri creates work that addresses the tension between _...Read More_

‘Life has become about influence, temptation, and selling ideas. But I don’t think any of it’s really working.’

An excerpt from Oval by Elvia Wilk, published by Soft Skull. Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. She is the author of the novel Oval (Soft Skull, 2019) and writes for publications including frieze, Artforum, e-flux, _...Read More_

Anti-racism efforts that are watered down by “listening” and “learning” treat justice as though it can be acquired through the awakening of people’s hearts and minds—instead of through a clear-cut democratic process. Following the Nuremberg _...Read More_

“Chile: Riot cops hate music. It reminds them that once they were human.” Good to know.