Re: “Meta”

2021-11-08 Thread Frédéric Neyrat
I agree with the last message of Ted. Meta is a lure that prevents us from seeing Infra: 1) the classic ideological critique - Meta conceals reality (environmental reality) - hides that reality is what Meta produces; 2) Z does not care about the quality of the lure, because it's not his problem. I

Re: “Meta”

2021-11-08 Thread Ted Byfield
I agree with Brian that Facebook's "rebranding" isn't an urgent problem in its own right, but I disagree with the rhetorical gambit of introducing a preferred subject by dismissing another. There are lots of genuinely important subjects that never get a word on nettime, and it isn't hard to see

PIKSEL21 – "Decoding Black Magic. Interventions in Infrastructure" exhibition, by the Critical Engineering Working Group

2021-11-08 Thread 220hex
PIKSEL21 – REBOOT ME SOFTLY The 19th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies 18th-21st November Bergen (Norway) "Decoding Black Magic. Interventions in Infrastructure" exhibition, by the Critical Engineering Working Group 18th November-12th December C. Sundts gaten 40 Be