The PostScriptUM Anthology (2010–2023)

Essays on Art, Technology, Society and the Environment

Price: 25€
Language: English


… AI, airports, algorithm, anthropocene, asset-based protocols, authorship, belonging, big data, bio art, blockchain, bot, calligraphy, capitalism, carbon footprint, CCTV, citizenship, classes, climate change, collaboration, computing infrastructure, cookies, criticism, crypto, cryptography, custumisation, DAOs, data mining, death of the author, debris, deep state, deep web, delegation society, digital capitalism, ecology, encryption, entreprecariat, fake/prank, finance, gender, gig economy, growth, hacking, hacktivism, hidden landscapes, human/nature, humor, hyperobjects, identity, images, incorporation, indie game, infrastructures, institutions, intelligence agencies, internet, labour, language, Luther Blissett, media culture, media event, memes, microplastics, military, names, nature, net art, new extractivism, NFTs, obfuscation, observing, offshoring, overidentification, ownership, peer-to-peer, performance, piracy, platform economy, politics, poor image, portrait, post-capitalism, post-growth, post-human, power, precarity, predictive algorithm, privacy, production, pseudoevent, radical geography, readymade, recycling, re-enactment, repurposing technologies, scale, secret operations, security, seduction, seeing, self-exploitation, software, speed, stateless machines, steganography, story/narrative, storytelling, surveillance, tax havens, temporality, theatre, utopia, visibility, waste, world building …

What can an anthology on art, technology, society and the environment tell us about the future? In a period of a prolonged generalised crisis, to what extent can critical texts and culture at large offer tools for thinking and acting? Overwhelmed with the feeling that we have no agency to affect what happens in the world nowadays, the only way to step forward might be to look back without losing our desire and urge to affect the present and shape the future.

EN | 10.5 x 16.7 cm | 418 pp | B/W | soft cover | 2024
ISBN 978-961-7173-51-2


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The PostScriptUM Anthology (2010–2023)
Essays on Art, Technology, Society and the Environment

Contributors: Aude Launay, Bojana Kunst, Clémence Seurat, Daniela Silvestrin, Dušan Kažić, Eva & Franco Mattes, Felix Stalder, Florian Cramer, Geoff Cox, Ida Hiršenfelder, Inke Arns, James Bridle, Jaya Klara Brekke, Jon Lackman, Lev Kreft, Marc Garrett, Martin Zeilinger, Matthew Fuller, Mojca Kumerdej, monochrom, Nika Mahnič, Paolo Ruffino, Primož Krašovec, Régine Debatty, RYBN, Silvio Lorusso, Steve Rushton, Tomislav Medak, Trevor Paglen, Valentina Tanni, Vuk Ćosić

Editors: Daphne Dragona, Domenico Quaranta
Editor in chief: Janez Fakin Janša
Editorial assistant: Rok Kranjc

Language editor: Miha Šuštar
Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin
Print: Collegium Graphicum
No. of copies: 350

Published by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Represented by: Marcela Okretič

Ljubljana, April 2024
© Aksioma, the authors

Promotion and distribution: Sonja Grdina

Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana

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