Mastodawn

" There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen,1992, Anthem song

“He was just somebody who fell through all the cracks..."

A young man who came to Australia to study computer science died in the bushes near the bustling tunnel entrance to Sydney’s St James station. "Roughly 100,000 people went in or out of St James station during the time ..."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/bikram-lama-birdman-sydney-st-james-tunnel-homelessness-ntwnfb
#biopolitics #Sydney #education #housing #visas #homelessness #VulnerableHomelessness #precarity #cracks #SystemicFailures

When ‘the birdman’ of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days

Exclusive: The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?

The Guardian

BellingenNSW Mar 28

"One for mum, one for dad, and one for the war" ?

“Sometimes it looks like when the right side of politics says that people should have more children … they’re really saying that we should have more white babies.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/27/pronatalism-push-more-babies-around-world-ntwnfb

#reproduction #children #British #Australia #FarRight #FamilyPlanningSupplyChains #GlobalFertilityChains #biopolitics

Image: Pram parking inside a restaurant

BellingenNSW Mar 2

Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/aged-care-disability-australia-algorithms

When automated decision-making (algorithm) is in charge to ration care it could suggest forced euthanasia

Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4, The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to kill people with mental and physical disabilities. >>
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program

#SocialServices #care #governance #algorithm #efficiency #SystemicNeglect #abandonment #GlobalTrends #biopolitics #violence #HumanOversight #euthanasia #AktionT4 #necropolitics

Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm

When we relinquish care to a computer, we put lives at the mercy of a flawed system

The Guardian

Artun Faliro Mar 1

Whether we #exercise adequately, matters for health. But our health is also embedded in unchecked politics, class struggle, patriarchy and #global #inequalities every day. Erosion of #democracy by mass #surveillance technologies disguised as 'innovation', and unchecked #biopolitics, are affecting our health, #physiology, and well-being.

Politics of planetary health matters in #thesetimes of polycrisis because health, prescriptions, #drugs, and #innovation are inherently #political.

b҉Jan 14

this kind of posi pseudo-therapeutic nonsense is nauseating statecraft, & it’s timed real nice with her colleague’s statements of support for an extrajudicial ICE killing.

#PPB #portlandpolice #portlandpolicebureau #ppa #pdx #portland #orpol #oregon #pnw #USpol #ice #Gestapo #capitalism #neoliberalism #biopolitics #rashidaSaunders #jonathanRoss #JonRoss #reneegood #acab

PPB officer releases new memoir about silence, transformation

YouTube

Neural Dec 24

edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, Susan Schuppli – Militant Media: CRA #2

https://neural.it/2025/12/edited-by-riccardo-badano-tomas-percival-susan-schuppli-militant-media-cra-2/

#militantmedia
#neuralarchive #neuralmag #technoculture #dataethics #biopolitics

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3319

Neural Nov 3

aerobic topologies: socio-spatial knowledge practices of fermenting microbes by Carolin Melia Brendel

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3312

#aerobictopologies #artbook #artsciencetechnology #artsci #artscience #scienceandart #sciencemeetsart #bioart #bioarte #bioartist #ecoart #anthropoceneart #interspeciesart #bacteriaart #postnatural #posthuman #biopolitics #mediaecology #biosensing #chemistryart #newmediaart #newmediaartist #mediaart #mediaarts #mediaartist #experimentalpublishing #neuralarchive #neuralmag
#artbook #artscience

Artun Oct 9, 2025

Queering and Decolonizing the Critique — Eleştiriyi kuirleştirmek ve sömürgelikten çıkarmak

📌 Op-ed 7 Ekim 2025

Archives, science and medicine are not inherently neutral.

Queering the critique invites us to think about #time, #science and #health in ways that are #decolonial and #nonlinear, transcend the present, and question the archives and the hegemonic uncritical accounts of #history in planetary health, technology, and #innovation.

#biopolitics #Foucault

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/15578100251383816