iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp.de · 26/03/2026

Alexander Kluge ist gestern im Alter von 94 Jahren in München verstorben.

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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today! In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance. Use the code SAMMAN20 for 20% off: www.sup.org/books/politi... mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364586...

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Wayne McGregor’s Infinite Bodies at Somerset House, London - the ‘virtual body’ in the OMNI piece certainly arresting.

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

What if we stopped thinking about the digital as just our devices and started understanding it as a way of mediating reality through discrete units? That's the question driving this book I co-wrote with Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792019...

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The final Japanese pressing from my recent Shinjuku shop trip - absolute classic from 1965 on Impulse with the pale blue backed cover. Sounds as good as it looks!

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

And another Japanese pressing of a classic from Disk Union, Shinjuku:

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Picked up some sweet vintage Japanese pressings of essential albums. This one from Disk Union in Shinjuku:

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Found the Japanese pressing of this great album from 1982 in Nishihara, Shibuya - has dated very well with its post-punk blend of afrobeat and indie-jazz.

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Not sure whether a ‘Digital Art Museum’ would really deliver but #teamLab’s Borderless at Azabudai Hills, Tokyo certainly delivers state-of-the-art spectacle. Just as fascinating here to people-watch how visitors interact with the flux of images. We’re a long way from the Lumière Brothers …. or?

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The final film in the new Melanie Gilligan series - Home Together (2020-2022) - is now available on the excellent Weird Economies site. My accompanying essay can be found here too: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

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Allegories of a Future Collective | Weird Economies

The artist and filmmaker, Melanie Gilligan, may be best known for her trilogy Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Popular Unrest (2010), and The …

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This week’s Melanie Gilligan film on Weird Economies is The Bay Area Protests (2016-2022), a compelling exploration of three moments of widespread protest in the Bay Area between 2009 and 2011. More in my accompanying piece: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

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Allegories of a Future Collective | Weird Economies

The artist and filmmaker, Melanie Gilligan, may be best known for her trilogy Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Popular Unrest (2010), and The …

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...

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What I Read About AI in 2025

From AGI to Workslop It's time for our annual tradition: a very long list of pieces written about AI this year that have stuck with me, for better or for worse. I've sorted them in alphabetical order...

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

My new piece for Weird Economies on the films of Melanie Gilligan - to accompany a curated series of films - a new upload weekly - up to 21 Dec 2025. weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

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Allegories of a Future Collective | Weird Economies

The artist and filmmaker, Melanie Gilligan, may be best known for her trilogy Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Popular Unrest (2010), and The …

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Hito Steyerl at the MAK Vienna: ‘Humanity Had the Bullet Go in Through One Ear and Out Through the Other’ - featuring Hell Yeah We Fuck Die and Mechanical Kurds.

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Sahej Rahal: MYTHMACHINE (2022) at the Kunstraum Vienna.

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Femke Herregraven: The Murmur of the Dying (2023) - at the Kunstraum Vienna

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Found this gem hidden away in the local used vinyl shop - great bit of Fela from 1977!

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Blown away to see the display of Calculating Empires by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Paris - Le Monde selon l’AI @jeudepaume - full of good things.

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Tim Lindemann @timlinfilm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🎬 Call for Papers 🎬 We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more! Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa Please share! #CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky

Frances McDormand in Zhao's "Nomadland" (2020)

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

QMUL cut 200 roles in the past two years: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s... #SaveHE #UKHE

Qmul cuts 200 roles
60 lost to voluntary severance in 2024
80 professional service staff took VS in 2025
50 academics took VS in 2025
Strategic exits
Redundancies in restructures

Remaining staff with increasing workload

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.

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Call for Papers

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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I’m organizing an international workshop next week at Roskilde University: Speculating the Future: Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities. We’ll explore how speculative fiction helps us understand speculative finance & future-making. The keynote will be delivered by Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside.

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Not sure what my iphone made of the huge #averysinger pieces at the Serralves Foundation today - so many good exhibitions in a stunning setting.

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Record Store Day - all my @acertainratio.bsky.social vinyl went missing years ago - nice to pick up To Each on RSD. The Fox and Winter Hill 🔥.

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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Today is the day: Financial nihilism.

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Raymond Williams Society @r-williams-soc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....

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Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2025

We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 11th year. The deadline for entries is Friday 28th February 2025. The prize for the wi…

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Excited to be part of this super collection of articles on Cinema and Financial Speculation that has just appeared in French with Images Secondes. Some excellent pieces to catch up on over the holiday break: imagessecondes.fr/index.php/04...

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04 | 2024 Cinéma et spéculation financière – Images secondes

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Mikkel Krause Frantzen @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Today is, believe it or not, the official publication date of “Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary.” The perfect Christmas gift 🎁

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04 | 2024 Cinéma et spéculation financière – Images secondes

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We made a round-up on the other place (it’s nearly our anniversary on this app, but we didn’t post much of the events in the 1st half of the year) Break-ins, court cases, bailiffs, eviction of toddlers. But most of all: many who chose QMUL to be so much better than this twitter.com/qm_ucu/statu...

Image of Queen Mary's Queens' Building with a decal of scrooge over it, while people are protesting at the bottom. Neatly sums up our employment relations in visual form. The image comes from the 22 December 2023 piece Aditya Chakrabortty wrote about the state of Queen Mary in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott

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UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies @ucl-ccs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Last Thursday, over 1,000 people packed UCL's Logan Hall to listen to Thomas Piketty, Gillian Tett and Ash Sarkar at our CCS Inaugural Annual Conversation. Thank you all for an incredible evening, and stay tuned!

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Went to the book launch for Tim’s new book this week - exciting work on film/cultural geography/precarity - big recommend!

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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Brilliant subject for a book. I was excited when I first heard about this. I look forward to reviewing it soon…

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Finance and Society @finandsoc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Very excited to announce the publication of 10(3). The issue includes articles on the asset condition, Apartheid financing, and Insurtech, plus a forum on postcapitalist finance and some cracking review articles. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Finance and Society: Volume 10 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Finance and Society - Volume 10 - Issue 3

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Loved this recent piece*. Which AI-themed or -generated short films do you use with ug students? I already have a few thoughts but will have missed loads. #AIimages #artistsmovingimage *by Lawrence Lek

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

ICYMI: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (2024) Chapters on the financial regime and the financial image, financial gaze, financial time, financial space, financial performativity, via Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Petzold, Isaac Julien and other anti-wolves of Wall Street!

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Currently reading. Anyone out there see the original exhibitions in Vienna and Tabakalera San Sebastian-Donostia?

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Chris Clarke @chris-clarke.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I created a starter pack for the political, cultural, social study of money and finance. It is incomplete and provisional. Please suggest additions/updates! go.bsky.app/3BhMAZq

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

And three away points …. ⚒️ 🥳🥳🥳

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Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

💙 My baby is here 💙 ILUMINACE 2/2024 - OPEN ACCESS - TEXTS & AV ESSAYS What if we stopped asking how computers shape moving images and asked: how is computer iconography represented in audiovisual media? Dive into the complex portraits of computer labor in film & TV. See: bit.ly/3YMMG5m

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Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Working with my final year student group on #HarunFarocki and #HitoSteyerl and remembered this fine short intro to their work, via the timely exhibition put on at London's Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in 2020: Life Captured Still. ropac.net/video/12-har...

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Harun Farocki & Hito Steyerl | Life Captured Still

The first major posthumous exhibition of Harun Farocki’s work in the UK showed his seminal video and new media art installations alongside the work of Hito Steyerl.

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