Issue 4/2019
Digital Unconscious
"Digitality" has become a kind of fundamental constant in our media, cultural and even social life. You might well say, somewhat hyperbolically, that even if nothing else still holds our existence together, "the digital" now increasingly assumes this function. That clearly only refers to an infrastructure framework. However, the more precisely, exhaustively and providently this systematic framework operates, the more comprehensively diverse forms of life, behaviour and consumption are exposed to it. And the more inviolable its power grows, as can immediately be noted. Digitality, understood as the way in which any entity, process or artefact can be derived from a simple binary principle, has in any event begun to inscribe itself deeply into our modes of perception, communication and behaviour. People live, work and also spend the rest of t... » read more
Net section
What Can We Learn from the Commons? Aesthetic Practices of Learning and Unlearning
Cornelia Sollfrank
OPEN SCORES – How to Program the Commons
Feminist Server – Visibility and Functionality
Digital Infrastructure as a Common Project
Shusha Niederberger
Furtherfield
“Commonists” and their Attitude towards Imitation
Kevin Rittberger
From Participation to Appropriation
Felix Stalder
Digital Unconscious
Uncanny Nervous Systems and the Digital Unconscious
Konrad Becker
An Anthropological View on Mimetic Nervous Systems
Michael Taussig
Julio Reyes’ Phantom Boat. On the „Mastery of Non-Mastery“
Michael Taussig
This is the Future (2019)
Hito Steyerl
Soziale Sensoren
Katja Mayer
The „Netweird“ Society
Erik Davis
Machines, Spirits, and the Rise of the Secular Occult
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE)
The Invention of the Freudian Robot
Lydia H. Liu
Mine Your Own Business / Te coge el holandés (2018)
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer
Super-Computers, Ancient Myths and Death Cults of the Noosphere
Ewen Chardronnet
Upstream, Following the Unconscious of Machines
About the Works of Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni
Christian Höller
Artscribe
Anna Daucíková
Michael Hauffen
Soil is an Inscribed Body. On Sovereignty and Agropoetics
Bert Rebhandl
Nona Inescu – Corporealle
Moritz Scheper
Nil Yalter – Exile Is a Hard Job
Katalin Erdődi
Margaret Harrison – Danser sur les missiles
Gislind Nabakowski
Sigalit Landau – Salt Years
Milena Dimitrova
Omer Fast – Der Oylem iz a Goylem
Kathrin Heinrich
Collective Exhibition for a Single Body. The Private Score – Vienna 2019
Bettina Brunner
Nikita Kadan – Project of Ruins
Aleksei Borisionok
Hysterical Mining
Lisa Moravec
Books
Michel Foucault:
Die Geständnisse des Fleisches Sexualität und Wahrheit 4
Gislind Nabakowski
Marcelo D’Salete:
Angola Janga – Eine Geschichte von Freiheit
Martin Reiterer
Josephine Berry:
Art and (Bare) Life
Peter Kunitzky