This is an interview with Joanna Zylinska. Joanna Zylinska is a writer, artist, curator and Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London, where she direc…

This is a contribution to the LETHE MACHINA SERIES curated by Sasha Shilina and C.I.P.H.E.R. from DIFFRACTIONS. ABSTRACT: This paper interrogates how the anthropomorphic body is being reimagined un…

I. CLARICE THE MYSTIC At a reading I gave in Seattle two years ago, a man with white hair told me he had once lived in Brazil and had named his daughter after Clarice Lispector. Later, he handed me a ...

This is a contribution to the LETHE MACHINA SERIES curated by Sasha Shilina and Silas Nemo from DIFFRACTIONS. Transcription follows the essay below. :: For anyone who anticipates being observed in …

This is an interview with Abelardo Gil-Fournier. Abelardo Gil-Fournier is a Spanish artist and researcher based in Madrid. Trained in physics and holding a PhD in Arts from the UK, his practice cri…

0rphan Drift has explored the boundaries of machine and human vision, since its inception in London in 1994. The collective as avatar has taken diverse forms through the course of its career, somet…

This is a contribution to the LETHE MACHINA SERIES curated by Sasha Shilina and C.I.P.H.E.R. from DIFFRACTIONS. ABSTRACT: This paper interrogates how the anthropomorphic body is being reimagined un…

This is an interview with Harry Halpin. Harry Halpin is a technologist and philosopher who moved from building Indymedia during the anti-globalisation protests to earning a Ph.D. in Informatics und…

This is an interview with Harry Halpin. Harry Halpin is a technologist and philosopher who moved from building Indymedia during the anti-globalisation protests to earning a Ph.D. in Informatics und…

I’ve read a couple interesting posts over the last few days on the topic of the analytic/continental divide. The first was Jon Cogburn’s post linking to Ray Brassier’s talk on Sel…

This is the first part of an interview with Peter Wolfendale. Peter Wolfendale is an independent philosopher and leading voice in contemporary Neorationalism. Currently a resident in Yokohama, Japa…

This is an interview with Anna Engelhardt. Anna Engelhardt is the alias of a research-based video artist and writer based in Dover, UK. Her investigative practice follows the traces of material vio…

An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. ...

This is an interview conducted with Bogna Konior. Bogna is a scholar and a writer whose work focuses on emerging technologies. She is currently Assistant Professor of Media Theory at NYU Shanghai, …

We invite contributions for a special issue exploring the speculative historiography and material genealogies of intelligent machines in warfare, inspired by and in dialogue with Manuel DeLanda’s s…

Submundo 808: The Sonic Apparition In June 2025, I attended a baile funk party organized by the São Paulo-based collective Submundo 808 on the outskirts of Brazil’s federal capital. What I encounte…

Written by V.e.x.i.l. Research Lab or Volumetric Exposures & eXploitable Infrastructural Logics Research Lab based out of Valletta, Malta and Penang Island, Malaysia. “Force, and Fraud, are in …

A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” — Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness “It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”— Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble “…

:: The Slave and the Suicide (Automatism) :: In the tides of contemporary technophilia it is now commonplace to find ourselves engaging with the surge of a cleverly disguised anthropomorphizing tre…

Gabriele de Seta is, technically, a sociologist. He is a Researcher at the University of Bergen, where he leads the ALGOFOLK project (“Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular cr…