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Databodies Issue #32 @
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On October 26, Paradiso Amsterdam presents ParaPlay, an event around profiling, tagging and security, with performances by KKEP, Z25.org Dat-a, Orchestra of Anxiety, and Live to Tell: Surveilling, Profiling
and Fixing Identities. Several TJs (DJs of Thought) exclamate their thought-provoking statements on how databodies (collections of personal data) these days travel the world on a higher speed than our physical bodies.

To contextualize this event, cut.up presents a special issue about the social consequences of profiling, tagging and security, titled Databodies. The Databodies issue contains articles by Richard Rogers and Sabine Niederer, Loes Sikkes, Michael Stevenson, Jasper Moes, and Esther Weltevrede.

Infrastructure that Sticks: Digital Affect Within Sovietcore

By Salome Berdzenishvili, November 4, 2024

Жить тяжело и неуютно Зато уютно умирать (Living is difficult and confining, But dying is liberating) The words written above are an excerpt from the song Sudno (Boris Ryzhy) by post-punk band Molchat Doma from Minsk. These words also often loop over the reels on post-Soviet aesthetics found online – the ones of decayed brutalist [...]

Ágnes Básthy: Crisis? What Crisis? Taking a Suspicious Walk around a Fashionable Notion

By Geert Lovink, October 31, 2024

(Text of the speech by Ágnes Básthy on the first day of Metaforum X, Budapest, October 25, 2024) “‘Krisis’ was originally a medical concept which designated, in the Hippocratic corpus of texts, the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would be able to survive the disease. Theologians reprized the term to indicate the [...]

Infrastructure that Sticks: Digital Affect Within Sovietcore

Ágnes Básthy: Crisis? What Crisis? Taking a Suspicious Walk around a Fashionable Notion

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