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The Body Politic of subRosa

Rachel Falconer writes about the cyberfeminist art collective 'subRosa', a group using science, technology, and social activism to explore and critique the political traction of information and bio technologies on women’s bodies, lives and work.

By Rachel Falconer - 07/10/2013

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Community without Community in Digital Culture: An interview with Charlie Gere.

"I advocate a more 'non-relational' approach that does not deny the transformative effects of new media in terms of community, but thinks of it more in terms of hospitality to the other." Marc Garrett interviews Charlie Gere on Digital Culture in the Twenty-first Century with reference to two of his books, Digital Culture (2002) and Community without Community in Digital Culture (2012). Gere is a Professor of Media Theory and History in the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University.

By Marc Garrett - 06/09/2012

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Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 2

Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 2. An Attempt at Thinking Art and Capital: Unknown Unknowns, is the second of five essays by Canadian artist & critical thinker, Katie McCain. McCain discusses how capitalism has become on the one hand all encompassing and on the other utterly unreal. Arguing that we need to be prepared to think the impossible so that resistance is able to grow.

By Katie McCain - 02/05/2012

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Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 1

Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 1 is the first of five essays by Canadian artist & critical thinker, Katie McCain. McCain discusses how capitalism has become on the one hand all encompassing and on the other utterly unreal. Arguing that we need to be prepared to think the impossible so that resistance is able to grow. "If it is permitted that both the universe and capitalism are contingent, and therefore completely indifferent to human existence and human thought, then the possibility for alternatives opens up."

By Katie McCain - 01/03/2012

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On Amorphous Politics by Patrick Lichty

Patrick Lichty's article explores shifts toward new forms of sociopolitical dissent. Such as cellular forms or resistance including asymmetrical warfare like global insurgencies, the use of social media. Examples would be Twitter and Facebook in their ability to lens dissent for actions in Syria, Egypt and Tunisia, Wikileaks and its ability to mirror, and politics that use anarchistic forms of collective action such as the Occupy Movement, what he calls an amorphous politics of dissent.

By Patrick Lichty - 09/12/2011

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Steven Read && Software ART

Artist who makes lots and lots of software code art. Minimalist, generative, color field, seo, video, installation, etc. Come check it out!

RealTime + OnScreen Magagzine

RealTime is a print and online arts magazine covering innovative practices in media art, digital art, hybrid art, performance, dance, sound and music, visual art, film and video in Australia and internationally. As well as an extensive archive of back editions, RealTime also offers a features section covering festivals, a studio for new works and a portal critiquing quality websites.

Mute Magazine- culture and politics

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Furthertxt.org [2003 - ]

Furthertxt.org is the second sister site to furtherfield.org. A a bi-monthly thematic text project, edited by digital art critic Charlotte Frost (Rhizome Net Art News and Mute).

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Perverse engineering

Perverse Engineering is a perversion of 'reverse engineering'- taking something apart to find out how it Ãs made in order to acquire the knowledge to 'make your own'

By Ruth Catlow on 25 Sep 2007 - 12:00am

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