Issue 1/2018
Asocial Media?
“The Know-It-Alls” is the title American author Noam Cohen chose for his study on those who make the brave new digital world. It is generally recognized that this world has many, dark sides, not to say abysses. Cohen’s book (discussed in this issue) makes clear that the know-it-alls have however set their sights on squeezing every last ounce of profit out of these abysses, and that this process has long been underway. To a large extent entirely ignoring social and political collateral damage, for a good 20 years the major innovators from Silicon Valley have labored to make their vision of “enhanced” humanity a reality—even if that means that pronounced divisive tendencies become ever more apparent across society, with a tiny elite increasingly disengaged from the unfortunate masses. This development unleashed by Google, Amazon, Facebook an... » read more
Net section
Hypernormal Hybrids
Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder
Animal Intelligences
Non-human problem solving and the limits of “speciesism”
Susana Monsó
Wer hat Angst vor künstlichen Vögeln?
Stefan Woltran
Demonstrationen kollektiven Vermögens
Christa Benzer
„Russische Hacker“
Herwig G. Höller
Asocial Media?
Truth and Disavowal
New Media Realities and the Liberal Trauma
Olivier Jutel
Meme War – War in the Nets
A conversation between Marc Ries and Maria L. Felixmüller on a central political slogan in social media channels
Marc Ries und Maria L. Felixmüller
Be Realistic, Ask for the Impossible (2017)
Lara Baladi
The Dogma of Computability
Neoliberal Capitalism, Neo-Materialism, and Beyond
S. M. Amadae
NO! NO! NO! (2017)
Mykola Ridnyi
The Match
Lost and Found at the Computer Trade Fair
Thomas Raab
Endless Flux
What It Means to Scroll in Digital Space
Alessandro Ludovico
Es ist zwölf Uhr, ich kauf mir Supreme
Hans-Christian Dany
Hope 2008-2017 (2017)
D. H. Saur
Artscribe
Art Without Death: Russischer Kosmismus
Michael Hauffen
Stefan Burger
Julia Moritz
trigon 67/17 – ambiente nuovo/post environment
Manuela Pacella
The Kyiv International – Kiew Biennale 2017
Hedwig Saxenhuber
VALIE EXPORT. Das Archiv als Ort künstlerischer Forschung
Bettina Brunner
Birobidschan
Herwig G. Höller
An Evening with Chto Delat
Edit András
Sergei Eisenstein: The Anthropology of Rhythm
Valentina Tanni
in awe
Laura Amann
Naturgeschichten: Spuren des Politischen
Andrey Shental
Books
Didier Eribon:
Gesellschaft als Urteil: Klassen, Identitäten, Wege
Jens Kastner
Eyal Weizman:
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Noah Chasin
Kristin Ross:
Communal Luxury. The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
Jochen Becker
Noam Cohen:
The Know-It-Alls
Christian Höller