Sickness International

FKA Peter Polack

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

working on two graphic novels, to be published in october and december. a southern gothic mecha insurgency and a romantic dream heist in cyberspace, both presenting critical analysis of what technology design does to life and politics

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

Midjourney AI proposes a sauna experience with full-body scanners to open in 2027 and 'change our relationship with our bodies'

what better backdrop for slimy datacrats doing business in the shadows, had to 3D model it for the comic, based on their evil lair AI renders

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

i always draw white on black bc its better for photosensitivity but unfortunately for my sanity inverted is looking better. the hands down best part of anime is when the light casts a shape on someone's face and it glows...

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

wild compared to German police who go to such great lengths to act like they dont to this, just because they dont do it real-time on a screen with the side door wide open 👀

[The English 909 (A 5th Dimensional Radio Station) @909isLive]

Nothing to see here folks, move along now.

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

photos from the first iterations of Flesh Network, a live demo of the point when technology design slips from care to biopolitical violence, told through sound and a historiography of communication systems. next one Aug 29 in Chemnitz

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

published first manifesto this spring in Simulacrum Magazine. the gist is that logical abstractions have political and psychological effects: AI is better suited to inventing pathologies than approximating the truth, and cybernetics makes you paranoid. DM for text

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

chronic illness makes my body into a veil or foreign object that stands out before me. i know somebody tried to dissect the pain body from the reality body. but what are the consequences?

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

leaked dhalgren software

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

@papeldetrapo where the podcast analytics say that 10% of viewers are bots, im like oh no, i need more of them

[will @EmoFoucault]

Spinelessness is kind of essential to both of them. I still remember Wark ableistly pontificating whether there could be such thing as a “disabled riot” when trying to dunk on the Invisible Committee at Columbia’s 13/13 meeting.

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

talked with @delo about the destruction of aid infrastructure in gaza

english translation here - https://t.co/GKDfP09hmj

[Joe @joedyke]

Has anyone figured out whether the "village in southern Lebanon" at 00.55 is actually a real place or purely fictitious (ignoring the missile claims obvs)

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

speaking tn with @engelhardt_x about computational media that interprets and articulates crime - if youre in berlin come through!
https://t.co/JB5fFAp8wg

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

PLATAFORMA (2024)

[Sickness International @sicknessintl]

paying attention to these computational tactics, branded as humanitarian measures:

- dividing geography into indexed zones, so that suddenly your physical location can be treated as a criminalizable affair
- coercing biometric surveillance in exchange for access to safety

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

NEW INVESTIGATION: Since 7 Oct 23, the Israeli army has weaponised humanitarian measures such as ‘evacuation orders’, ‘safe routes’ & ‘safe zones’ to support their military operations & facilitate the mass displacement of Palestinians.

View the platform: https://t.co/sOL45vXBcM

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

With @alhaq_org, we continue to monitor cases of reported attacks by Israel on medical facilities in Gaza. This task is made harder by Israeli disinformation; in the thread below, we demonstrate that Israeli media statements following the al-Ahli hospital blast were misleading.