Public Event: Screening of “Entangled Recurrents” (52′) 2023 by Konrad Becker/Felix Stalder, World-Information Institute/t0

Fake news, disinformation, psychological warfare. The modern conceptions of truth and reality are in disarray. Categorical systems that have organized Western culture over the last 200 years, are broken up and eroded. We are confronted with all kinds of new hybrids.

Digital communication forces us to look not only at technical protocols but also at protocols of the human mind and nervous system. Over the last 30 years, artists, researchers, and activists, brought together by the Institute of New Cultural Technologies in Vienna, have explored alternative histories of media and the emergent digital (un)consciousness.

Their perspectives, seemingly marginal during times of techno-utopianism, are now critical as we are traversing new zones of monsters.

The event is followed by a Q&A with Felix Stalder.

Felix Stalder is a professor teaching Digital Culture at the Zurich University of the Arts. He is the author/editor of numerous books, among others Kultur der Digitalität / Digital Condition (Suhrkamp, 2016/Polity Press, 2018), Aesthetics of the Commons (Diaphanes, 2021) and Digital Unconscious (Autonomedia, 2021). Previous video works with Konrad Becker & Georg Schütz include: “Civilization, Technology and Consciousness – Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey” 58 Min, 2022

Video (52′) 2023 Konrad Becker/Felix Stalder, World-Information Institute/t0 With: Shahidul Allam (IN), SM Amadae (US), Ben Bagdikian(US), Franco “Bifo” Berardi (IT), Paulina Borsook (US), Ian Clark (UK), Loraine Daston (US), Kunda Dixit (NP),Ricardo Dominigues (US), Ulrike Felt (AT), Stephen Graham (UK),Mireille Hildebrandt (BE), Steve Kurtz (US), Bruno Latour (FR), Lydia Liu (US), Evelyn Lubbers (NL), Lata Mani (US), Subcommandante Marcos (MX), Katja Mayer (AT), Arun Metha (IN), Eben Moglen (US), Susanna Monso (ES), Marko Peljhan (SI), Sadie Plant (UK), Sheldon Rampton (US), Arundhati Roy (IN),Rudy Rucker (US), Saskia Sassen (NL), Shudhabarata Sengupta (IN), Michael Taussig (US), John Urry (UK), Francisco Webber (AT), Eyal Weizmann (IL), Peter Lamborn Wilson (US), Steve Wright (UK),Sönke Zehle (DE)

Produced by Konrad Becker/Felix Stalder 2023 World-Information Institute/t0

We would like to thank the teams in Vienna for 30 years of dedicated enthusiasm. Without them hundreds of events and interventions in challenging conditions would not have been possible. This production is indebted to the many supporters as well as the spirited and well-informed crews of partner organizations in: Amsterdam, Bangalore, Belgrade, Brussels, Ljubljana, Munich, Paris

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