Digital Esoterism Or to be a Witch in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Ginevra Petrozzi

This text will follow the structure of a well-known Tarot spread: the Celtic Cross. This arrangement is made up of ten positions. Each position unveils a different aspect of a situation, and whilst reading may seem disconnected from the others. Yet, it is quite important to read every position as it is, one by one, as you would do with Tarots. As in Tarots, a card by itself doesn’t really mean anything, but when put next to the others it becomes part of a scheme –– almost a path... continue reading 

 

Beautiful World – Typo-Film

Directed by Mieke Gerritzen

Beautiful World is a film about a feeling that prevails the world at present. This feeling is one of joy, inspiration and refreshing innovation, but also one of being oppressed and manipulated through technology and economization. I call it a feeling because we can’t concretely define the situation: we can’t speak of left or right, black or white, text or image. It is a grey area, in which a mix of different cultures and countries, tradition and innovation, commercialism and idealism is searching for legitimacy. A world in which fusion and blending are forming an image of the future... continue reading
 

Now You See Me: Visibility of the Lesbian Identity on TikTok

By Dunja Nešović

In April 2020, I was in my second month of lockdown. The particular state of isolation I was in made my digital life more tangible, and my ‘real life’ intensively more digital. Around that time, TikTok started to gain more popularity and to become a social networking phenomenon which I didn’t delve into until I found out about ‘lesbians on TikTok’ through a discussion on my Twitter feed. TikTok lesbians were talked about as a particular category of both platform users, and lesbians in general, which some perceived as either fun, cringe, attractive, educational and/or just purely fascinating... continue reading
 

APRIA #3 – Urgent Publishing

Edited by Miriam Rasch and Nishant Shah.

Publishing can be a slow business—frustratingly so when you want to participate in societal debates that evolve ever faster. That’s especially the case when you want to elevate such debates with high-quality materials—well-researched, well-designed, sustainable publications. It gets even more tantalising when you’re after a public outside your own (academic) bubble and want to build critical and communal audiences. In the project Making Public, these experiences and ambitions were the starting point for two years of experimentations and conceptualising around the notion of ‘urgent publishing.’... continue reading

The Left Can Meme: Strategies to Challenge Dutch Oppressive Political Discourses 
By Chloë Arkenbout

https://networkcultures.org/thedigitalgutmensch/2021/11/11/the-left-can-meme-strategies-to-challenge-dutch-oppressive-political-discourses/