Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Against this we must instead recognize that capitalism has always been a crushing, extractionist artificial intelligence.” – I really enjoy this kind of academic critique of academic critics of AI 121
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasM. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Structuralism lovers and haters: see you at Duke University 💎 “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Age of AI” conference, 22-23 Oct 2026. An outstanding line-up! Programme in the poster 🖼️ I will present my new publication, “Cave Machines” (Aksioma, 2026). 293
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Between Sept. 21–26, compost.cc was part of the Unplugged? #art & #technology residency organized by #Marginal in #Bucharest. We presented our project to a new people, connected with the local community, & added new nodes to the #network and gave away others, which will find a new location! 040
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Anne Carson is a goddamn magician with language. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukAnne Carson · On RosalíaWe require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No... 24112
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasZentrum für Netzkunst Berlin @zfn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026ROTBOTS – exhibition 📍 /rosa, Heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 Berlin Opening: Wednesday, 30 September 2026 Exhibition: 1–17 October 2026 Panel discussion "Tactical Rot": @vukcosic.bsky.social and Geert Lovink, 4 October 2026 @networked.work · distant.gallery · Fabian Hampelt · Networked Materiality 142
Reposted by Diego Gómez-Venegasmarkcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Here's a video of David Berry of Team ELIZA on the code of the first chatbot at the UNESCO Source Code Exhibition. This exhibition can travel to your area Organized by the Software Heritage Foundation. A milestone in Critical Code Studies #critcode @softwareheritage.org youtu.be/-Xo4uImfdLc?...youtu.beELIZA: Rediscovering the First Chatbot / À la redécouverte du premier chatbot by TEAM ELIZAYouTube video by Inria - Médiation Scientifique 021
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasRepeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026From our friends at Zer0 Books: www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o... 023
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We are delighted to announce the second collection, and the first external deposit, on compost.cc: the archive of #ScreenWalks. Watch the announcement video below and then install a node to join in on the fun 100
Reposted by Diego Gómez-Venegaspanke.gallery @pankegallery.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Network Portraits – solo show by Olia Lialina www.panke.gallery/exhibition/n... 📍 panke.gallery 🗓️ 10 September – 3 October 2026 082
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I'm thrilled to be in the final editing stage of my contribution to the volume on the #history of #cybernetics in #LatinAmerica, edited by José-Carlos Mariátegui and David Maulén – to be published by MIT Press next year 110
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I’m really obsessed with #Rilke’s sentence “You must change your life” these days. Even more, though, with the way in which Pedro Madrigal translated that sentence for the Spanish version of Sloterdijk’s essay: “Has de cambiar tu vida”—Spanish can beautifully painful 100
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Starting next week, compost.cc will be part of the Unplugged? residency. With other 9 projects, we'll imagine & co-create around post-energy practices and "what happens to our creativity when we switch from the infinite plug to a permacomputing perspective?" – We are really looking forward to it! 000
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Having watched The #Odyssey last night, I can’t help but offer this #media-genealogical interpretation: The fact that Ulysses is the polymechanos, and that the final shot of the film shows a burning Trojan horse, puts #technology at the center of the mistakes mentioned by polytlas Odysseus 010
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A painful, good, and perhaps necessary reading #Foucault #Neoliberalism #Governmentality 000
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Yesterday, I had one of those disaster-bureaucracy days in Berlin, being sent from one building to another & nothing worked. Today, things began similarly, but I was lucky enough to interact with 4 super nice, sympathetic, and helpful ladies. Thanks to them, it was a successful-bureaucracy morning 000
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Barbara Bielitz and I are curating & mentoring the Flusslab Art Residency at Coswig (Ant), Germany this summer. Next Friday (07/31/26), there’s an open studio day. If you’re around and want check the artists’ work-in-progress, come visit and chat with us between 2–5pm 111
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasHanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026‘In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish’ – my interview with violinist Michael Barenboim, now online @972mag.com www.972mag.com/michael-bare...972mag.com‘In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish’For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible. 110534
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasAlan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Just published open-access: @sarahciston.com et al., *Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI* direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... @berrydm.bsky.socialdirect.mit.eduInventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AIHow the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventin 25229
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Barbara’s hill – #UdK #Rundgang #Chena #Berlin #Heimatlosigkeit 041
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Last May, compost.cc had its 1st public presentation in the [Future] Territories exhibition at #dasLot in Vienna. With a #permacomputing installation (📷 1 & 2) and a BringYourOwnDevice #workshop (📷 3 & 4), we began our #mediaart journey towards #criticalcomputing and #mediaarchaeology. More soon! 040
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I finally closed my academia dot edu account! Most of my writings are now just on their respective publisher’s websites or on my own hosting #digitalsovereignty #platformcapitalism #ai #llms 000
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasBenedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social · 06/06/2026with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social 0176
Reposted by Diego Gómez-Venegasmarkcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Decades ago, Jeff Shrager wrote one of the most influential BASIC versions of ELIZA Years later, he helped us rediscover the original source code Nothing clever to say, but what symmetry! sites.google.com/view/elizage... #TeamELIZA #ELIZA #AIHistorysites.google.comELIZAGEN - ELIZA ClonesCommonly Known ELIZA Clones 011
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasJürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Ist das der selbe Habeck der nach dem 7.Oktober die deutschen Muslime unter Generalverdacht stellte, der mitverantwortlich dafür ist, dass die Staatsräson "völkische" wurde....? 75611
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Now in English. I’ve always opposed the fixation with the Opsroom bcs (among other reasons) it helps the Western discourse & caricature that nothing real happens outside the West. The story about the Pisco Sour is, if anything, a misleading story. There was no space for cocktails in that room 100
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Das Problem mit Legenden ist, dass sie irreführend sein können. Der Opsroom war NICHT das Herzstück Cybersyns. Die Geschichte mit dem Pisco Sour ist lediglich eine westliche Karikatur. Im Archiv findet sich nichts über Cocktails—nur (Bonsiepe-)Geschichten Cc @annanosthoff.bsky.social 110
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasAaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I'm excited to release part 3 of my series on beyond capitalism with @Autonomy_Inst. The big question people often asked about my recent work is—ok sure, but how do we get there? Please have a look at my first sketch of an answer to that question. autonomy.work/portfolio/be...autonomy.workBeyond capitalism: from design to implementationThe third instalment of Aaron Benanav's 'Beyond capitalism' series turns to the question of transition to a multidimensional economy. 35217
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasEL PAÍS @elpais.com · 16/05/2026—¿Podemos regular la tecnología? —Regular o desregular es un falso dilema. Hay que encontrar un camino diferente El modelo de negocio de las tecnológicas quizás no acabe con la humanidad, explica el filósofo Yuk Hui, pero sí puede empobrecer nuestras vidas social.elpais.com/26d… 1177
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Installing compost.cc @ Das Lot in Vienna! The installation requires ~130W (6 laptops, 2 tablets, & 1 router). Opening tomorrow @ 7pm. If around, check it out & join the BYD workshop on Sat 5/9, 3pm www.lot.wien/futureterrit... #permaComputing #digitalCommons #mediaArchaeology #mediaTheory 000
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasZachary Furste @iiil.li · 02/05/2026Pleased to share that compost.cc , a project by myself and @digomezvenegas.bsky.social, will have a debut installation and workshop in Vienna next weekend at en.lot.wien/futureterritories ! Bring along an unused device to the workshop 9 May at 15:00 and leave with a functioning compost node!compost.cccompost.ccpermacomputing for common digital archives 041
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasAlonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I've been discussing the Malvinas/Falklands a lot. Some strongly believe that it is ironic for anticolonial leftists to defend Argentina's position because in this context it would be the colonialist imperialist side. I push back against that claim here: opiniojuris.org/2026/04/30/t...opiniojuris.orgThe Malvinas/Falklands Dispute in Anti-Imperialist HistoryArgentinean President Javier Milei’s recent comments about Argentina’s sovereignty over the Malvinas/Falklands Islands and Trump’s latest threat against a European ally, hinting he could support Ar… 378
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026In mid-May, I'll be presenting at the Latin American Network of Simondonian Studies, which is taking place in Rio de Janeiro this year – my talk will be online, though (:-|). I'm really looking forward to getting involved with this community! reles.gilbertsimondon.org/2026/04/21/c... #Simondon 131
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Happy to share that our project compost.cc will have its first presentation in the Future Territories exhibition at Das Lot in Vienna on May 7–10 en.lot.wien/futureterrit... #Permacomputing #DigitalCommons #Infrastructure #MediaArts #DigitalHumanities #MediaTheory 120
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Reflecting on my understanding of nostalgia and its connections (or the connection I see) with utopia and melancholia through this essay and open call #mediaarts #mediatheory #netart #mediaarchaeology #mediagenealogy #netactivism error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalg...error417.expectation.fail 010
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026We have a new website! Please check it out and let us know what you think — more news coming soon compost.cc #permacomputing #archives #digitalcommons #mediaartscompost.cc 000
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Last night, we watched Hail Mary in Friedrichshain, and we were surprised and moved by the inclusion of Violeta Parra’s “Gracias a la vida” (Mercedes Sosa’s version) in the film's soundtrack. Thank you to whoever made that decision! #VioletaParra 010
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Zachary Furste ( @iiil.li ) and I are working on a #permacomputing project through which we are facilitating the creation of a network for collectively preserving endangered #archives. It's called compost.cc and you can learn more by visiting the about section: compost.cc/about 011
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasNico @nico-encounter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Reading Eco's book Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language and its great to see him correct this very common error of Lacan and the post structuralists directly 021
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasCominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 19/03/2026new article out! The Redemption of Saint Max: Stirner's Critique of Marx In: Marx and the Critique of Humanism. ed. Andres Saenz de Sicilia (Bloomsbury, 2026) philarchive.org/rec/BLUTRO-13 17423
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Two Central European powers are now planning to develop a nuclear arsenal together. Two countries that have been besieged by internal fascism for years. And in one of these countries, the local fascist party could join the government coalition in the foreseeable future. The stupidest move ever! 010
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026These MFs have just ruined this beautiful statue honoring the #workers who built the television tower in #Berlin by placing a horrible skyscraper wannabe in front of the tower – they just hate the city’s historical traces of #socialism 110
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Yesterday we saw the Chilean movie Matapanki at the Berlinale. In the Q&A session, the director Mapache Fuentes said that the film project began as a joke and in the spirit of not taking movies too seriously… #Berlinale #Generation14Plus www.berlinale.de/en/2026/prog...berlinale.deMatapanki | BerlinaleBerlin International Film Festival - official website 220
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasParis Marx @parismarx.com · 18/02/2026Back in 2023, I noticed the refreshed Ursula K. Le Guin website no longer had this essay. I reached out to ask if it could be restored, and a few days later someone from the foundation sent over the URL to show it was back online :) 224350
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Ein Deutscher hat mir heute gesagt, dass Wim Wenders ein Idiot ist — auf Deutsch … Und echt verärgert #Berlinale 000
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I attended the “Critique of AI” roundtable organized by @ktbberlin.bsky.social today. It was really nice and refreshing to listen to Matteo Pasquinelli, Ana-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer, and Rainer Mühlhoff in a big room full of diverse, committed people #AI #Critique #CriticalTheory #MediaTheory 0123
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasDiego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I’ve been thinking about Bad Bunny’s last night speech. Especially on the “…we are Americans” part. I know that central & northern Europeans decided to forget it, or simply don’t care, but Latin Americans understand the word “American” as an equivalent to European, Asian, or African… 132
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I’ve been thinking about Bad Bunny’s last night speech. Especially on the “…we are Americans” part. I know that central & northern Europeans decided to forget it, or simply don’t care, but Latin Americans understand the word “American” as an equivalent to European, Asian, or African… 132
Reposted by Diego Gómez-VenegasCominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026CRITIQUE OF AI Mon, February 16, 2026 16:00 - 18:00 Senatssaal, HU Berlin Unter den Linden 6, 10117 With Matteo Pasquinelli, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social, and Rainer Mülhoff moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/cri... 25813
Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Se ha publicado mi ensayo en el dossier “Convergencias arte-tecnología-política” de la revista del Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte. Les invito a leerlo. Abajo el link. #Arte #Tecnologia #Latinoamerica caiana.caiana.com.ar/dossier/2026...caiana.caiana.com.arMónica Bate y los murmullos inertes – una exégesis mestiza - Caiana 041