Here is the link to the book!

Once-obscure connections between reactionary thought and the tech world have moved from subcultural margins into policy, institutions, and the infrastructures of everyday life. This issue approaches technofascism as a contested constellation in which technical systems and technological imaginaries are mobilised in the service of hierarchy and exclusion. Its contributions examine this constellation across infrastructures, epistemologies, affects, political economy, race and gender, colonial extraction, and attacks on democratic institutions, testing both the analytical force and the limits of the term "technofascism“.

Einst kaum bekannte Verbindungen zwischen reaktionärem Denken und der Tech-Welt haben sich von den Rändern der Subkulturen in die Politik, in Institutionen und in die Infrastrukturen des Alltags verlagert. Diese Ausgabe betrachtet den Technofaschismus als umstrittene Konstellation, in der technische Systeme und technologische Vorstellungswelten im Dienste von Hierarchien und Ausgrenzung mobilisiert werden. Die Beiträge untersuchen diese Konstellation unter den Gesichtspunkten von Infrastrukturen, Erkenntnistheorien, Affekten, politischer Ökonomie, Rasse und Geschlecht, kolonialer Ausbeutung sowie Angriffen auf demokratische Institutionen und prüfen dabei sowohl die analytische Kraft als auch die Grenzen des Begriffs „Technofaschismus“.

ALL 49 PAPERS NOW PUBLISHED! 

Printversion including a foreword in preparation!

The English translation is in the works!

Our book with the results of our workshop last year (and even more invited papers), 20 in total... in English and first in print and then in Open Access...

The Commodore 64 is the most significant computer of its era. From 1982 to 1994, a total of 27 million units were sold—more than any other computer from a single manufacturer afterwards. Due to its widespread use as well as its techni­cal features, the C64 has a huge international following—even to this day. The 19 contributions compiled in this book illustrate the significance of the platform for the digitalization of society, the general public s computer science knowledge, as well as digital art and culture—both in the past, present, and also in the future. Volume 5 of the »Computer Archaeology« series is partly based on the confer­ence of the same name held in 2024 at the University of Bonn and has here been supplemented with additional contributions from the fields of artificial intelli­gence, quantum computing, and digital humanities.

Here is the link to the PREVIEW!

Here you can order the book!

22.7. 14 15 LAUNCHPARTY IN BONN, Lennéstr. 1, Room 2.003 - Join us!

Here is a conversation between Rudolf Inderst and Stefan Höltgen on the book!

Here is a conversation of Jens Schröter, Stefan Höltgen and the Brotkastenfreunde on the C64!

Here is the link to the Keynote!

Like the bellows of an accordion, many human-made objects are designed to compress: to respond to external conditions through a series of contractions and expansions. Though the term COMPRESSION is most often used today to theorize digital operations (e.g. formats, algorithms, codecs, bitrates), its historical, material, and aesthetic dimensions stretch far wider, encompassing cylinder seals, lithography stones, collection inventories, and elided narratives of architectural reliefs. This interdisciplinary symposium aims to explore these and other precursors in dialogue with contemporary conceptions of summarization, abstracting, code, and storage. We consider compression both as a technical procedure and as a mode through which aesthetic meaning takes shape amid constraints — whether material, ecological or economic. Paper topics span temporalities, localities, and media, from medieval pyxides to film stock, nineteenth-century books to DNA bunnies, hand knitting to mass production. As we convene in the city of schiacciata, special attention will be paid to the squashed techniques of Florentine sculptors and to pietra paesina quarried from the Arno riverbed.

Here is the link to the Conference. You can find there also the Zoom-Links for virtual participation!

Here is the link!

Jens Schröter (virtually) gave a talk on »AI and Abstract Time« on the »Temporalities of AI«-Conference at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome on Monday 20.4.

You can join online via Zoom!

Here is the link to the conference, where you also find the ZOOM-Links.

The ways through which humans interact with their environment via sensory perception is changing rapidly in the age of digital sensor technologies. An increasing number of technical sensors are currently being added to our skin, eyes, and ears – the once central interfaces between body and world. These sensors aim not only to imitate human smelling and tasting in addition to haptic and visual perception but also to translate smelling and tasting into digital processes—that is, into mathematically representable discrete operations. This brings a previously marginal dimension of media theory into focus: the entanglement of the “lower” senses with machine perception apparatuses, like sensors.

This development is not merely an expansion of the concept of the interface; it also touches on fundamental anthropological and epistemological questions—for example, concerning the boundary between human and nonhuman agency or the (technical) conditions of perception itself. Human and nonhuman operations appear to intermingle fluidly in this sensory situation. The relations of human-computer interaction (HCI) are renegotiated through questions about the “senses” and the purpose of sensors.

The sensing activated by sensors is part of a media-technical configuration of perception: sensors act not only as part of a media ensemble but increasingly extend the constitution of what can be considered perceptible. This coupling of human senses and technical infrastructures shifts human-computer interaction and transforms the interface from a mere point of contact into a sensory infrastructure in which data streams, materiality, bodies, and software form relational assemblages. Sensing thus serves paradigmatically as a renegotiation of the interfaces between humans, technology, and environment. This implies that not only the concept of the interface is expanded, but also the conditions and limits of perception are redefined in an increasingly sensor-mediated world.

Here is the link to the website of our project with the detailed program of the conference!