On the occasion of the 16th edition of tactics&practice Are You A Software Update?, which explores how software systems shape human action, participation, and agency, journalist and researcher Neja Berger curated and hosted this series of podcasts to expand on the topic.
tactics&practice [podcast]: Are You A Software Update?
When critique obsesses over hidden depths, it mirrors the very logic it opposes, demanding revelation while overlooking the potency of the surface. Are You a Software Update? explores how power might be disrupted not by digging deeper, but engaging its own seemingly superficial terrain: weaponizing seduction in memes, Girls, glitches, and camp; cultivating habits; deploying enchantments. Perhaps the question isn’t whether we are due for an update, but how we might update differently – not by feeding the recursive loops that fragment our movements, but through the ambient transformation that unfolds in the cracks of what is already visible.
