I’d like to share with you our new podcast series. Thanks for listening :)
Best, Marcela ----- Dear friends, I'd like to share with you our new podcast series. Thanks for listening! :) Best, Marcela aksioma.org ✦ ✦ ✦ I’d like to share with you our new podcast series. Thanks for listening :) Best, Marcela ----- *Are You A Software Update?* <https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=a7f04e70fb&e=b2b01b8bf8> A New Podcast Series With the *tactics&practice #16: Are You A Software Update? <https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=f616a56c09&e=b2b01b8bf8>* programme we dedicated the first half of 2025 to exploring, in various languages and formats, how software systems influence human actions, participation, and work. To delve further into the topic, journalist and researcher *Neja Berger* curated and hosted a new season of podcasts. ✧ ✧ ✧ When critique obsesses over hidden depths, it mirrors the very logic it opposes, demanding revelation while overlooking the potency of the surface. This podcast series <https://aksioma.org/podcast/are-you-a-software-update> explores how power might be disrupted not by digging deeper, but engaging its own seemingly superficial terrain: weaponizing seduction in memes, Girls, glitches, and camp; cultivating habits; deploying enchantments. Perhaps the question isn’t whether we are due for an update, but how we might update differently – not by feeding the recursive loops that fragment our movements, but through the ambient transformation that unfolds in the cracks of what is already visible. *Ep. #1 *✧* Memes as Sympoietic Agents *→ released! <https://aksioma.org/ayasu-ep1> Researcher *Sophie Publig* rethinks memes as sympoietic agents, from early image-board hoaxes to TikTok trends, angelcore aesthetics, and the academic saga of “the girls who get it.” *Ep. #2 *✧* The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal* → 9 September 2025 Artist and theorist *Alex Quicho* introduces *the Girl* as a tripartite technology of subjectivity—symbolic, consumer, and inhuman—offering strategies for navigating planetary computation from within its blind spots. *Ep. #3 *✧* Hexing the Algorithm* → 16 September 2025 Artist and author *Shaka McGlotten* proposes witchy tactics against quantification: opacity, fugitivity, and computational hexes that shift us from critique to conjure—seducing the machine off-script. *Ep. #4 *✧* Revolution in the Minor Key* → 23 September 2025 Professor *Carolyn Pedwell* explores how subtle tendencies, affective inhabitation, and collective habits accumulate power, building infrastructures of care and resistance when shock and rupture fall short. *Ep. #5 *✧ → 28 November 2025 In this episode, Neja Berger will talk to *Bogna Konior* about *The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet*, her latest book to be released at the end of November by Polity. ✧ ✧ ✧ This and all previous seasons are available on the Aksioma website <https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=0dbdb210a4&e=b2b01b8bf8> and on the following podcast platforms: Spotify <https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=05df9b0652&e=b2b01b8bf8> | Apple Podcasts <https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=40013bba41&e=b2b01b8bf8> | SoundCloud <https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=951eefbc01&e=b2b01b8bf8> | YouTube Music <https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=602d6085aa&e=b2b01b8bf8> ✧ ✧ ✧ Marcela Okretič Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana www.aksioma.org
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