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The Download #7: In-person file sharing / El intercambio de archivos mano a mano
"The Download is a series of Rhizome commissions curated by Paul Soulellis that considers posted files, the act of downloading, and the user’s desktop as the space of exhibition. !!!Sección A R T E [No. 11+Rhizome], by Julia Weist and Nestor Siré, explores the structures of Cuba’s El Paquete Semanal."
Yanis Varoufakis on Marx, an adaption from his introduction to The Communist Manifesto
"The Communist Manifesto foresaw the predatory and polarised global capitalism of the 21st century. But Marx and Engels also showed us that we have the power to create a better world."
Marx Now: A Symposium, at Goethe-Institut New York — Panel: "The Poetics and Aesthetics of Marx"
Featuring Malik Gaines, Rebecca Ariel Porte, Juliana Spahr, and McKenzie Wark
Image Factories: Infographics 1920–1945: Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath et al.
Edited with text by Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs, Patrick Rössler. Text by Bernd Stiegler, Otto Neurath, Vilém Flusser.
A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories
Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.
“Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention”: visions of Afrofuturism at Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
With 32 participating artists and 12 coinciding ‘tech projects’, “Afro-tech and the Future of Re-Invention” takes over Dortmund’s Hartware MedienKunstVerein in an exhibition that is both aesthetically and ideologically immersive.
Harun Farocki: “What Ought to be Done”
The Harun Farocki Institut, in collaboration with Motto Books, has republished a 1975 pamphlet written by Harun Farocki entitled "What Ought to be Done" (Was getan werden soll).
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant
Printed: Issue 3 The Summer Of... August 2013
"EXTRACTEUR : art format for museums in the age of social media"
The Colonel is preparing a book in a limited edition on the project "EXTRACTEUR : art format for museums in the age of social media" from a 2011 exhibition at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover.
Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
"Work has ruled our lives for centuries, and it does so today more than ever. But a new generation of thinkers insists there is an alternative." By Andy Beckett
Intro to New Poetics of Labor
Poetry is a form of human labor…the labor of reshaping human value. And Labor is the way we assert our own terms of worth against the world of capital.
