An essay by curator and researcher Doreen Ríos on monsters and cannibals and what we can learn from these figures related to today's internet, comissioned within the Open Call Error 415 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable.
Netstalgia is the cultural symptom of platform capitalism in crisis. When users feel exhausted by algorithmic feeds, AI automation and corporate consolidation, the industry repackages the aesthetics and affect of the “old internet” as a cure.
An essay on how the current state of technology enables a new quality of fascism by writer and sociotechnologist Jürgen Geuter aka @tante, commissioned within the call for projects Error 406 [Tech Fascism] Not Acceptable.
An essay on Aggrieved Masculinity, Silicon Valley and the New Far Right by writer and cultural theorist Ana Teixeira Pinto, commissioned within the call for projects Error 406 [Tech Fascism] Not Acceptable.