Posts By: patricia

When Fungus punched Anthropos in the Gut: On Crap, Fish-eating Trees, Rhizomes and Organized Networks

By patricia, August 1, 2018

This essay appeared in Rhizomes. by Patricia de Vries   I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual — Virginia Woolf Prelude On a warm summer day, somewhere in the early 1980s in a forest in British Columbia, Jiggs accidentally fell into a pit of crap. After realizing he was stuck, [...]

De Flash Crash: het Monster in de Zwarte Doos

By patricia, June 4, 2018

Dit essay verschijnt in Wijsgerig Perspectief. door Patricia de Vries Het is donderdag 6 mei 2010, twee over half drie ’s middags, wanneer er op de New York Stock Exchange iets ongekends geschiedt. De beursindex van de Verenigde Staten maakt zonder aanwijsbare reden met ongekende snelheid de diepste duik in zijn 114-jarig bestaan. In enkele [...]

The Objectivist Drug Party \\\ Genomic Intimacy

By patricia, June 1, 2018

This essay was written for MU Art Space by Patricia de Vries From May 11 to July 8 2018, MU presents The Objectivist Drug Party and Genomic Intimacy, two solo-exhibitions of the internationally acclaimed artists Zach Blas and Heather Dewey-Hagborg. The Objectivist Drug Party shows recent work of Zach Blas: the film Jubilee 2033 (2018), the latest addition to his [...]

Black Transparency in the Era of Post-Truth

By patricia, April 21, 2018

  Metahaven. 2015. Black Transparency: The Right to Know in the Age of Mass Surveillance. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 205 pages. by Patricia de Vries On the left the Lake of Deep Conviction. Truth breaks from the bottom and bobs to the surface.
      Wisława Symborska – Utopia This review appeared in Krisis: Journal for Contemporary [...]

Doomsday: The Internet of Things goes Supernova

By patricia, October 9, 2017

  The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction _ William Blake by Patricia de Vries On Exitism While you’ve been busy salting away a handful of pennies you made in the gig economy, while working a third shift in unpaid digital and emotional labor, there have been rising whispers amongst immensely [...]

Surveillance Porn Bingo

By patricia, May 22, 2017

SURVEILLANCE PORN BINGO can be played at a conference, Summer or Winter School, lecture, panel discussion, or any other event on internet surveillance & control. The SURVEILLANCE PORN BINGO card can also be used while reading a book or an article on internet surveillance, or during a (bar) discussion with friends or colleagues on surveillance related [...]

Database Aesthetics & The Real: I See it When I Believe it.

By patricia, May 22, 2017

  An extended version of this article was first published in Canon Magazine. The Sputnik Project The term “archive” evokes a dusky place full of photographs, shelves lined with wrinkled pages, and smudged glass encasing cluttered artifacts. The exhibition space of Sputnik, part of the retrospective “De Facto. Joan Fontcuberta 1982 – 2008” (Barcelona, 2008), does much [...]

Against A Calculated Life: How to Overcome the Privacy Worldview

By patricia, February 23, 2017

Originally published in  Please Come Back: The World As Prison?  By Patricia de Vries and Geert Lovink From the high peaks of intellectual arrogance, one can have the clarity to see the world falling apart. (From down here, from the viewpoint of our trivial, illegible, chaotic realities: we salute them.) _Valeria Luiselli Bruno Latour famously [...]

Shift + Command + Finem Respice, of: Hoe je de Duif in je Hoofd Loslaat

By patricia, January 18, 2017

Een kortere versie van dit essay verscheen in Wijsgerig Perspectief door Patricia de Vries Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler _ A.E.   Het is 1943. In een laboratorium in Cambridge in de staat Massachusetts, spelen twee duiven pingpong. Het is het resultaat van Project Pigeon van de behaviorist Burrhus Frederic [...]

When Fungus punched Anthropos in the Gut: On Crap, Fish-eating Trees, Rhizomes and Organized Networks

By patricia, August 15, 2016

  By Patricia de Vries   I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual _Virginia Woolf   It all started with a Beagle dog falling into a pit of crap. As it often does, incidentally. It was a warm summer day somewhere in the early 1980s in a forest in British [...]