Anthropic’s recent clash with the White House over the use of AI in military and surveillance technology signalled lofty principles. Yet it’s already embedded in the defence systems it claims to resist.
Félix Tréguer, Anthropic, Silicon Valley’s conscience?
https://mondediplo.com/2026/05/12anthropic
« La bonne conscience de la Silicon Valley » https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/69543
They built to dominate or Fascism in the Age of its digital Reproduction, Alberto Toscano. Accessible in pdf #aksioma
Opening duckrabbit.tv 2.0 by #SimoneCNiquille tomorrow at 7 PM at #Aksioma Project Space 🦆🐇 🐰
Come to Cade Diehm's talk on Para-Real or believe in the Independence of Cyberspace till the end of your days
Tuesday May 19 18:15 Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
https://pad.profolia.org/s/Without_Us#May-19--Cade-Diehm-IEAU--I%E2%80%99ll-Drown-In-The-Para-Real
Join us from wherever you are ✨
Starting at 19:00, tonight’s opening keynotes will be streamed live in cooperation with our partner @DORFTV. The lecture programme over the next days will also be available via livestream.
19:30–20:00 — Opening Keynotes
Opacity: What Remains — with Nelly Y. Pinkrah
All Computers Are Broken — with Juli Laczko
In Kooperation mit der Kunstuniversität Linz streamt DORFTV die Vorträge im Rahmen von AMRO Festivals von 13. - 16. Mai live aus dem afo - architekturform Oberösterreich. AMRO26Becoming Unreadable13th–16th May 2026, Linz (AT) Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture Programm: 19:00 – 19:30 Meet & Greet afo - 1st floor | conference hall Festival opening Davide Bevilacqua, Us(c)hi Reiter, Aileen Derieg, Aimilia Liontou Welcome to AMRO26! 19:30 – 20:00 Keynote afo - 1st floor | conference hall All Computers Are Broken Juli Laczko According to Jackson’s Rethinking Repair, breakdown, maintenance, and repair constitute crucial but vastly understudied sites or moments within the worlds of new media and technology today. Keynote afo - 1st floor | conference hall Opacity. What remains. Nelly Y. Pinkrah When light meets a dense surface it stops, and when a word meets a machine, it is rendered mute.
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/116565758792514267
Er, I meant to say 'only TWO weeks until...' 😳
Opening today at 18:00 @ MAERZ Galerie:
From the Ashes of the Burnout Machines, an exhibition unfolding between ecological collapse, digital infrastructures, extractive economies, and practices of resistance and regeneration.
Presented as part of AMRO26 – Art Meets Radical Openness, the exhibition brings together installations, sound works, speculative systems, video, and performative interventions that critically engage contemporary technological conditions.
https://radical-openness.org/en/programm/2026/exhibition-opening-ashes-burnout-machines
Eleven international artistic positions address the ecological and social impacts of an extractive, profit-driven model of digitalisation, and illuminate the close entanglement of the climate and technology crises. Burnout not only settles in the individual body as a state of exhaustion, but it also accumulates, circulates and disperses into a shared climate that stretches across technical systems, social relations and ecological processes. What happens at the margins of exhaustion, where systems falter or refuse to fully cohere? Could spaces emerge for tentative forms of connection, alternative rhythms and practices that do not reproduce the extractive logic of burnout?
🗓️ Last week an Institute delegation presented "Design as archaeological practice" at the MA Design Expanded Practice, Goldsmiths University of the Arts London, as part of their "Design as..." series
📄 Slide deck (35+MB, no notes or context) https://docs.luddite.tools/file/#/2/file/7siRfmvOXbNlb1nXGOasPTi1/
Aksioma
olia lialina
servus.at
danmcquillan
Simon Weckert
Institute of Diagram Studies
Lori Emerson