http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/moneylab-reader-an-intervention-in-digital-economy/ Contributors: Irwan Abdalloh, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Robert van Boeschoten, Finn Brunton, Paolo Cirio, Jim Costanzo, Primavera De Filippi, Eduard de Jong, Irina Enache, Andrea Fumagalli, David Golumbia, Max Haiven, […]

Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
A friend recently turned me onto the idea that somebody, somewhere is embedding USB ports into infrastructure in various places around the world —…

via http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2015/04/02/post-cinema-cultures-of-energy/ maybe it’s a kind of aspect-blindness on my part but by and large I don’t find films (fiction not docs) and videos to be particularly vivid/moving/convincing examples of the […]

Second in a series of posts on the suicide-murder by Andreas Lubitz. Focusing on psychopathy, evil, depression and suicidal serenity all the obvious content warning ignite.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2015/apr/01/over-population-over-consumption-in-pictures?

On the 28th of March I opened a new blog for a project slightly darker in hue than synteticzero but which remains within its orbit. The first post of any […]

“Discussing the extraordinary complexity of our everyday actions, and inviting comparison with the power of visual artists to interrupt our habitual behaviour, the speakers explored how ‘Manual’ draws attention to […]

plus her paper Public Interventions: http://www.skor.nl/_files/Files/OPEN!%20Key%20Texts_Sassen.pdf

http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2014.09.02_kotsko_on_agamben_0.mp3 “How foundational are violence and coercion to Western sovereign authority? According to Giorgio Agamben, states of emergency have become not the exception but the rule, and the individual has […]

“Living Side by Side: On Culture and Security: Does the concept of security assume a distinctive cultural form in the midst of deafening patriotic calls for protection and precaution? This […]

A kind of experiment- aphorisms, stories, snapshots, quotations; gatherings; fallings apart; written over various nights of insomnia, exhaustion, and the circadian/cognitive  chaos of night shifts. Download it as a pdf. Print it […]

Originally posted on Sophie Lewis, writer based in Philadelphia:
I’ve recently joined the Out of the Woods writing collective so I’m flagging our review of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything. We…

“When private prison representatives first showed up in Willacy County in the 1990s, they distributed spreadsheets promising millions of dollars a year for a county whose major source of income, […]

“They say that the young driver Andreas Lubitz had suffered from depression and had kept hidden his mental condition to the company he worked for, Lufthansa. The doctors advised a […]