Are You a Software Update?

ed. by Nora O’ Murchú, Janez Fakin Janša ; with contr. by Wassim Z. Alsindi, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Nora O’ Murchú, Alex Quicho, Noura Tafeche, Alberto Toscano ; design by Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin

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Auteur(s)

Wassim Z. Alsindi, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Sam Lavigne, Nora O’ Murchú, Alex Quicho, Noura Tafeche, Alberto Toscano

Editor(s)

Nora O’ Murchú, Janez Fakin Janša

Uitgever, jaar

Ljubljana : Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, 2025

Omvang

192 p., geïllustreerd, 17 cm.

ISBN

9789617173666

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Increasingly, the logic of software transforms the conditions of participation, embedding control into interfaces, automating governance through terms and conditions, and configuring compliance through algorithmic sorting, behavioural prediction and the continuous management of visibility. 'Are You a Software Update?' brings together seven authors to examine the intensifying form of totalitarianism grounded in the quiet background logic of contemporary technology. They explore how infrastructures built for scale, extraction and control have come to embody this totalising logic. The reader shows how platforms stabilise sentiment, how images perform order and how data becomes the medium through which consent is manufactured and dissent is neutralised. Their essays reveal a world governed by calibration – a fascist tendency expressed through the everyday management of attention, emotion and presence.

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Trefwoorden

data , internet

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 11A - 4: Surveillance ; Veiligheid ; Angst / Surveillance ; Security ; Fear