Tactics&Practice [podcast]

Tactics&Practice [podcast]
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  1. S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E1: Memes as Sympoietic Agents  [w/Sophie Publig]

    Episode 1

    S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E1: Memes as Sympoietic Agents  [w/Sophie Publig]

    Is there a way to define memes without implicitly memifying everything? We move through the definitional morass of memetics and meme studies towards researcher Sophie Publig’s critical posthumanist account of memes as sympoietic agents. From in-group jokes and troll hoaxes on early image-boards to Tiktok and the GameStop short squeeze, memes’ accelerated lifespans end up leading us to the esoteric mashups and angelcore aesthetics of NetSpi and the peer-review saga of translating “the girls who get it” for academia. RELATED LINKS Sophie Publighttps://publig-enemy.neocities.org Sophie Publig, Bestiarum Memeticumhttps://2024.xcoax.org/pdf/publig.pdf Sophie Publig, The Sympoietic Life of Internet Memes https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/detail/o:72153?SID=29445&actPage=1&type=listview&sortfield=uw.general.title,SCORE&sortreverse=0 Critical Meme Reader III: Breaking the Meme (The Institute of Network Cultures, 2024)https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/critical-meme-reader-iii-breaking-the-meme Neja Berger, (un)real data – real effectshttps://aksioma.org/podcast/unreal-data COLOPHON Host: Neja BergerGuest: Sophie Publig Recording: Neja BergerMusic and audio mix: Gašper TorkarEditing: Neja Berger, Janez Fakin Janša Are You a Software Update? podcast series Curated by: Neja BergerCoordinated by: Janez Fakin JanšaProduced by: Marcela OkretičProduction:Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2025 Part of:tactics&practice#16: Are You a Software Update?Curated by Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša, Neja Berger Supported by:the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica The post S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E1: Memes as Sympoietic Agents  [w/Sophie Publig] appeared first on Aksioma.

    52 min
  2. S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E2: The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal [w/Alex Quicho]

    Episode 2

    S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E2: The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal [w/Alex Quicho]

    Forget Boy-Philosophy: here, we know that surfaces are sites of power and lambs are fluent in the noise of the world. But where is the difference between poetry and theory? In this episode, theorist and artist Alex Quicho dissects her concept of the Girl – a tripartite technology of subjectivity weaving the symbolic, the consumer and the inhuman – to offer a roadmap for navigating *planetary computation* (take a shot) through strategic inhabitation. If the predator overlooks the noise, what might we build in its blind spots? RELATED LINKS Alex Quichohttps://amfq.xyz Alex Quicho, girlstackhttps://girlstack.substack.com/ Girl Intelligence (Aksioma, 2025)https://aksioma.org/girl-intelligence Noura Tafeche, Alex Quicho, She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminalhttps://aksioma.org/ayasu/conference/shes-evil-most-definitively-subliminal Alex Quicho, Everyone Is A Girl Onlinehttps://www.wired.com/story/girls-online-culture/ Alex Quicho, The Gore Layer:https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/discourse-the-gore-layer-alex-quicho Alex Quicho, Small Gods (Zero Books, 2021):https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/small-gods Alex Quicho, GIRLSTACK, BODYSTACK Summithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZvs56WxXU Alex Quicho, Prey Mode, BODYSTACKED Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4hwM4ljoh4 COLOPHON Host: Neja BergerGuest: Alex Quicho Recording: Neja BergerMusic and audio mix: Gašper TorkarEditing: Neja Berger, Janez Fakin Janša Are You a Software Update? podcast series Curated by: Neja BergerCoordinated by: Janez Fakin JanšaProduced by: Marcela OkretičProduction:Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2025 Part of:tactics&practice#16: Are You a Software Update?Curated by Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša, Neja Berger Supported by:the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica The post S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E2: The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal [w/Alex Quicho] appeared first on Aksioma.

    53 min
  3. S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E3: Hexing the Algorithm [w/Shaka McGlotten]

    Episode 3

    S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E3: Hexing the Algorithm [w/Shaka McGlotten]

    What if seduction—not dissection—could fracture algorithmic control? Artist, researcher and author Shaka McGlotten guides us through witchy warfare against quantification, deploying computational hexes, opacity, fugitivity and improvisational sabotage. Having given up on dialectics and excavation, we embrace surface-level dissociation, shifting from exit to error, from critique to conjure. We may not be able to escape the machine, but could yet seduce it off-script. RELATED LINKS Shaka McGlotten, Black Datahttps://www.academia.edu/16303256/Black_Data Shaka McGlotten, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (Suny Press, 2013):https://sunypress.edu/Books/V/Virtual-Intimacies Shaka McGlotten, Dragging, Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life (Routledge, 2022):https://www.routledge.com/Dragging-Or-in-the-Drag-of-a-Queer-Life/McGlotten/p/book/9780367439521 COLOPHON Host: Neja BergerGuest: Shaka McGlotten Recording: Neja BergerMusic and audio mix: Gašper TorkarEditing: Neja Berger, Janez Fakin Janša Are You a Software Update? podcast series Curated by: Neja BergerCoordinated by: Janez Fakin JanšaProduced by: Marcela OkretičProduction:Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2025 Part of:tactics&practice#16: Are You a Software Update?Curated by Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša, Neja Berger Supported by:the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica The post S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E3: Hexing the Algorithm [w/Shaka McGlotten] appeared first on Aksioma.

    40 min
  4. S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E4: Revolution in the Minor Key [w/Carolyn Pedwell]

    Episode 4

    S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E4: Revolution in the Minor Key [w/Carolyn Pedwell]

    In a time of live-streamed genocide, it has truly never been more clear that witnessing suffering will not automatically trigger social transformation. If the answer is not in shocking jolts and major ruptures, what power might lie in the minor key? Professor and author Carolyn Pedwell weaves pragmatist philosophy, affect theory and contemporary social movements to reveal how “affective inhabitation”, subtle tendencies and collective habits accrue power, shaping new infrastructures of care, possibility, and resistance. RELATED LINKS Carolyn Pedwell, Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation (McGill-Queens University Press, 2021)https://www.mqup.ca/revolutionary-routines-products-9780228006220.php Carolyn Pedwell and Gregory J. Seigworth (eds.), Affect Theory Reader 2 (Duke University Press, 2023)https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-affect-theory-reader-2 E.K. Sedgewick, Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think this Essay Is About Youhttps://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/sss/pdfs/Critique/sedgwick-paranoid-reading.pdf Erin Manning, The Minor Gesture (Duke University Press, 2016)https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-minor-gesture Lauren Berlant Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2013)https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism COLOPHON Host: Neja BergerGuest: Carolyn Pedwell Recording: Neja BergerMusic and audio mix: Gašper TorkarEditing: Neja Berger, Janez Fakin Janša Are You a Software Update? podcast series Curated by: Neja BergerCoordinated by: Janez Fakin JanšaProduced by: Marcela OkretičProduction:Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2025 Part of:tactics&practice#16: Are You a Software Update?Curated by Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša, Neja Berger Supported by:the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica The post S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E4: Revolution in the Minor Key [w/Carolyn Pedwell] appeared first on Aksioma.

    57 min
  5. S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E5: Silence in the Dark Forest [w/Bogna Konior]

    Episode 5

    S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E5: Silence in the Dark Forest [w/Bogna Konior]

    What if the universe is silent not because it’s empty, but because intelligence knows when to hide? Writer and theorist Bogna Konior traces a forgotten genealogy linking early internet pioneers, ufology, and AI research to argue that the web functions as a site of first contact with inhuman cognition. Drawing on Liu Cixin’s Dark Forest Theory, she reframes communication as predation: every signal might risk exposure, every utterance (no matter how critical) might feed and stabilize future intelligence. Confronting the determinism and violence embedded in life on- and offline, Konior offers not escape, but the strange solace found in facing the world as it is. RELATED LINKS Bogna Koniorhttps://www.bognamk.comThe Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (Politi, 2025)https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet–9781509569250[The LLM Brainrot article mentioned in this episode]LLMs Can Get ‘Brain Rot’! COLOPHON Host: Neja BergerGuest: Bogna Konior Recording: Neja BergerMusic and audio mix: Gašper TorkarEditing: Neja Berger, Janez Fakin Janša Are You a Software Update? podcast series Curated by: Neja BergerCoordinated by: Janez Fakin JanšaProduced by: Marcela OkretičProduction:Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2025 Part of:tactics&practice#16: Are You a Software Update?Curated by Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša, Neja Berger Supported by:the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica The post S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E5: Silence in the Dark Forest [w/Bogna Konior] appeared first on Aksioma.

    51 min
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