emanation of psyche

Very snazzy design on the recent print publication of Laboria Cubonik’s Xenofeminist Manifesto. Notes and thoughts below:pic.twitter.com/9ctShIR3HD

What can we make of technology? “Serious risks are built into these tools,” and we should be wary of a blind techno-utopianism. The proposal here is different: not necessarily more tech, but new arrangements to “re-engineer the world” in “a positive feedback loop.”pic.twitter.com/N7WHcqybU8

Future politics must reckon with “a reality crosshatched with fibre-optic cables, radios and microwaves, oil and gas pipelines, aerial and shipping routes, and the unrelenting simultaneous execution of millions of communication protocols with every passing millisecond.”pic.twitter.com/2uUUCqpDpG

“Suggestions to pull the lever on the emergency brake of embedded velocities [...] is a possibility available only to the few.” To scale back, to huddle close, is to damn those caught outside. XF expands solidarity universally: “large-scale social change for all our alien kin.”pic.twitter.com/CeVb05ECAH

But what of the reactive and disheartened state of cyber-culture today? “Valuable platforms for connection, organization, and skill-sharing become clogged” by the “puritanical politics of shame.” A communicative accelerant is caught under the weight of libidinal inhibitors.pic.twitter.com/0XNdIwUrSM