*Olia has good ideas.<\/p>\n
Dear Nettimers,<\/p>\n
First of all, I\u2019d like to invite those of you who are not too far from Stuttgart to attend the lecture series I\u2019m organizing this semester at Merz Akademie.<\/p>\n
Secondly, as you can see if you follow the link, the guests and I are trying to create a kind of syllabus around the lectures. Do you have any suggestions for what to add to the reading\/watching\/playing lists?<\/p>\n
yours<\/p>\n
olia<\/p>\n
https:\/\/pad.profolia.org\/s\/Without_Us<\/p>\n
\u201cWith us, the adventure of becoming human has entered a new phase,\u201d writes philosopher Vil\u00e9m Flusser in one of his most beautiful texts, Digital Apparition. The year was 1991, and by \u201cus\u201d he meant \u201cthose who sit in front of their computers,\u201d \u201cpress the keys,\u201d and \u201crealize possibilities\u201d: \u201crealize alternative worlds and thereby themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is 2026. We have tried all the key combinations and helped to build the world in which we are hardly needed anymore. Computer users have generated enough data, uploaded enough videos, photos, texts, and documents for AI slop to thrive and for the Dead Internet to zombie around forever. The world we once saw as a place where we can be ourselves \u2014 or become someone completely different \u2014 has squeezed and evaporated our dreams, producing a concentrate, a powder: easy to store and repurpose.<\/p>\n
The digital today belongs to \u201cideal subjects\u201d (Goriunova); non-playable characters write their own lore (de Seta). What does it mean to be \u201cglitched and fragmented\u201d (Menegon)? How does it feel to be \u201cmoss in between the sidewalks\u201d (N.B. Spiders)? Will \u201cwe go dark when the servers go dark\u201d(Diehm)?<\/p>\n
— *Olia has good ideas. Dear Nettimers, First of all, I\u2019d like to invite those of you who are not too far from Stuttgart to attend the lecture series I\u2019m organizing this semester at Merz Akademie. Secondly, as you can see if you follow the link, the guests and I are trying to create a kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"\n
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