Wietske

Cultural worker and urbanibalist. Works also for BAK, basis voor actuele kunst

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

30°C above normal in the Arctic today.
40°C above normal in the Antarctic today.
It would be unbelievable if it were not true.
And it is terrifying beyond words.
The war we have waged against the natural world has, in climatic terms, just gone nuclear.

[Wietske @Wietske]

The #Nooscope Manifested charts the limits of artificial intelligence and the invisible labour of knowledge upon which a neoliberal technical-patriarchal AI subsists https://t.co/zc8EEfOVBA

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Just as the virus mutates, if we want to resist submission, we must also mutate … Paul B. Preciado on learning from the virus https://t.co/kL3bjwQvv6

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“The biggest risk for all of us is going to be frittering away this time sitting at home on our social media feeds, living the extremely limited forms of politics that get enabled here.” Naomi Klein

https://t.co/qPTjueCOvh

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“We understand the world better when we tremble with it”—Eduard Glissant in One World in Relation, Manthia Diawara https://t.co/pAbjb5yRge

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The structural incompetence of EU states in migrant rescue. A chilling investigation by @ForensicArchi in collaboration with one of the survivors, the artist Amel Alzakout https://t.co/TlsZFFZy15 as seen at @BerlinaleForum

[danmcquillan (@[email protected]) @danmcquillan]

"We need an AI that takes as its problematic exactly the sort of data features that are normally ignored as having no predictive value, because they represent shared conditions rather than individual idiosyncrasies."
#nonfascistAI https://t.co/y0L5eALkw2

[Wietske @Wietske]

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent is out now! Artists, theorists, activists, and scholars propose concrete forms of non-fascist living as the rise of contemporary fascisms threatens the foundations of common life @mitpress https://t.co/gM3BWoDtfH

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Equine literary activism: Female librarians on horseback delivering books, Kentucky, ca. 1930s via https://t.co/oEMSNHZpe7

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Ecological retaliation: the revolt of the wedge-tailed eagle against mining drones https://t.co/czVCMyEZYS

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On fascist pigs and how fascism became institutionalized through food production. A national soil to feed a national body. Which notably included the rearing of fat pigs for a “fat independent Germany” https://t.co/vi6phqqMoQ

[AIMODELS erc-aimodels.bsky.social @erc_aimodels]

Data is not just data but human data — @carolinesinders introducing the workshop Building a Feminist Data Set @transmediale

[NSU Watch @nsuwatch]

Heute Abend (3.12.) teilen wir in #Berlin das Podium mit @ForensicArchi, @GoldenDawnWatch und Ayşe Güleç zu den "Die Lücken der Aufklärung - Über die Arbeit von Forensic Architecture in den Fällen #NSU und #GoldenDawn". 19:30 geht es los. https://t.co/2jreAfqAQD

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

This morning, the courtroom at Korydallos Prison, on the outskirts of Athens, is discussing our evidence concerning the killing of Greek anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas for a second day. Learn more about the background to the case, and our investigation, below. #gdtrial

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Juan Manuel Echavarria’s series of efflorescent bones (after Max Ernst I guess)

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A provocative portmanteau of the terms ‘urban’ and ‘cannibalism’, Urbanibalism, featured in the Posthuman Glossary (Braidotti and Hlavajova, eds.), is an artistic practice and political agenda initiated in... https://t.co/Ic0U4EeAGm

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Post-hurricane crab disorientation (and cannibalism…) https://t.co/0FKoYvkTZh

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“Globalization is how capitalism saved itself from the welfare state” Stuart Hall in conversation with Les Back https://t.co/8VeYNMHMl5

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“The state of insanity is one of extreme loss…we have all the information, but it does not lead to consciousness” https://t.co/KlFs6mJmfg

[Izabella Kaminska @izakaminska]

Good article on the real issue with Uber (the utterly exploitative contractor model): https://t.co/FcMbm7ZdbN