SPOOK-I jams the network and emails you on behalf of the NSA

SPOOK-I is a hypothetical but operative US National Security Agency inspired machine. It mimics two surveillance techniques available to the NSA Tailored Access Operations unit, in order to expose the technology employed by state surveillance for the ‘weaponization of everyday’ devices.

When approaching SPOOK-I, the device jams your phone's WiFi network, scans and projects your name on the wall and sends you a email from an *@nsa.gov address.

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Manuel Delanda: Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture @ Columbia University, April 9, 2004, Art and Technology Lecture Series

A Weekend of Schizo-Culture @ NY, 12-13-14Dec2014

A Weekend of Schizo-Culture

The closing Schizo-Culture Weekend will activate many of the subjects touched on by SPACE’s current exhibition: Schizo-Culture: Cracks In The Street.

Discussions ranging across themes such as anti-psychiatry, philosophy and disciplinary rationalities (and their intersection with artistic practice today) will be programmed alongside performances, screenings and more impromptu interventions. Musical performances from Saturday afternoon will re-visit the bristling energy of 70′s Schizo-anarchy and its legacies and will run into the late evening. There will be a bar throughout at SPACE and the entire weekend is free and open to all.

The event includes contributions from activists, artists, philosophers, filmmakers and musicians including (amongst others) : Sylvere Lotringer, Susan Stenger, Kodwo Eshun (The Otolith Group), Colin Gordon,Vivienne Dick, Patrick Staff, Plastique Fantastique (David Burrows & Simon O’Sullivan and collaborators), Maggie Roberts & Lendl Barcelos, Ciaran Smyth (Vagabond Reviews), Anna Hickey Moody, Hester Reeve, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Josephine Wikstrøm, Mischa Twitchin and Empty Cages Collective with additional surprise guests and contributors.

Download the full weekend schedule with timings here

Friday 12th

3pm Talk and discussion with Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Josephine Wikstrøm
6pm Film screening and talk with Imogen Stidworthy on her practice and the work of Fernand Deligny

Saturday 13th
1pm until late: A day-long series of discussions, performances, interventions, workshops, screenings ranging from anti-psychiatry and philosophy to prison reform and music, and featuring amongst many others Sylvere Lotringer, Susan Stenger, Colin Gordon, Kodwo Eshun, Vivienne Dick, Plastique Fantastique, Maggie Roberts, Lendl Barcelos ,Hester Reeve, Mischa Twitchin, Ciaran Smyth (Vagabond Reviews), Anna Hickey Moody and Empty Cages Collective. The gallery will remain open late into the evening.

Sunday 14th
12pm-6pm: An afternoon of projections, informal drop-in and schizo-screenings including work by Terminal Beach, Sylvere Lotringer, Vivienne Dick and material from the Semiotext(e) archive.

Snowden Files For All? Ben Kaden & Geert Lovink

NSA ANT Catalog

After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal National Security Agency (NSA) catalog reveals such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices.

Above is a spread from the NSA ANT catalog of everyday products and exploits to perform spying and surveillance. Or, as Jacob Applebaum puts it, a document witness of the weaponisation of everyday devices. These and other documents were published by the SPIEGEL in December 2013.

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CITIZENFOUR by Laura Poitras

Nascita del populismo digitale. Masse, potere e postdemocrazia nel XXI secolo @Obsolete Capitalism

 Nascita del populismo digitale è leggibile e scaricabile in formato PDF.

Il non-partito M5S guidato da Beppe Grillo e Gianroberto Casaleggio ha ottenuto alle elezioni nazionali del 24—25 Febbraio 2013 un clamoroso successo elettorale: il panorama della politica italiana ne è uscito profondamente sconvolto. Questo libro cerca di indagare le novità che caratterizzano la nascita di un nuovo fenomeno politico: il populismo digitale. Siamo all’inizio di un cambio epocale della politica governamentale e della democrazia rappresentativa come l’abbiamo conosciuta fino da oggi? Lontano dall’essere un’anomalia italiana, il populismo è un fenomeno saldamente occidentale, sia nella sua versione analogica, sia nella sua versione digitale, con una english version, l’UKIP, estremamente seducente e, per questo motivo, non meno pericolosa di altre formazioni anti-establishment di destra.

Abbiamo formulato a intellettuali italiani e anglosassoni - di varia estrazione politica e differenti competenze disciplinari - sei domande riguardanti alcuni punti fondanti della nascita del populismo digitale e delle relazioni esistenti tra masse, potere e post-democrazia agli albori del XXI secolo. Ciò che leggerete in questo libro è il risultato delle nove interviste rilasciate tra maggio 2013 e febbraio 2014 da Luciana Parisi, Tiziana Terranova, Lapo Berti, Simon Choat, Paolo Godani, Saul Newman, Jussi Parikka, Tony D. Sampson e Alberto Toscano.

A cura di Obsolete Capitalism.