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Viral mobilities and infrastructures of breathing in hotel quarantine, Australia
Breathing in hotel quarantine
The possibilities of breathing together amid shared and unequal vulnerabilities mobilised attention during the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic (Choy, 2020; Nguyen, 2020). In Australia, the first two years of the pandemic intensified ‘atmospheric entanglement and disentanglement’ (Brown, 2017: np) in hotels, re-purposed as places of quarantine from March 2020 to November 2021.
For cloud ethics: Unpacking ignorance in algorithmic decision-making
Introduction
Algorithms have become increasingly omnipresent in various aspects of our social lives, particularly in contemporary workplaces, leading to a digital transformation of conventional management and organizational practices.
Your data is s**t
Welcome to the shitshow
In examining new ways for understanding the contemporary data subject, I believe the metaphor of shit is useful. It reminds us that data is a daily excretion composed of body with environment (personal with non-personal data). Like sludge (refined sewage), data excretions provoke, what I refer to here as, hygiene processes to manage storage, cleansing, and refinement, and increasingly realise inherent value (Hope, 2016).
Recycled youths, or, the reproduction of ecology of culture
Introduction
I suggest you read this note as an exploration of how ecologies of culture reproduce cultural labour. The main protagonist is MJ, a young woman who has been engaged in doing culture for more than 10 years. I have traced her career path and paid attention to some things that she learned to do along the way.
Refusing busyness
There are easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week. But if you love what you do, it (mostly) doesn’t feel like work.
Elon Musk, November 26th, 2018[1]
Scattered notes on future imaginaries, collapse, and exit strategies – Part 2: On ecovillages as survival units and everyday preppers
Note 4. ‘When I told them, they didn’t want to believe me’: Ecovillages as survival units
Hope is a muscle
That allows us to connect.
Atopos by Björk and featuring Kasimyn (Björk and Kasimyn, 2022)
Scattered notes on future imaginaries, collapse, and exit strategies – Part 1: On sci-fi aestheticism(s), Moon landings, and archaeologies of humankind
Introduction
In this creative writing exercise, we share a selection of short entries that blend academic references with pop culture, contemporary art, diary-like notes, and sci-fi imaginaries. We combine texts, music, and images in a multi-sensorial journey that encourages the reader to approach our contribution with an open heart and mind.
A bunker of one’s own: The super-rich and the mansions for the end of the world
I’m not a republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome?
Ozymandias (Watchmen, 1987: 375)
Why play games with conspiracies? A reflection on the board game CLUE-ANON
CLUE-ANON is a board game of deduction and bluffing for 3-to-4 players that fosters a fun, generative environment to discuss why conspiracy theories are so appealing…and so dangerous.