Kevin Coleman, Daniel James: Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction
PHOTO: Is it possible that anti-capitalist expressions are reduced to insignificant gestures and rather become symbols of the immediate consumption of social media?
Alain Bertho: Age of Violence. The Crisis of Political Action and the End of Utopia
DIAGNOSIS: Does hope lead to disappointment and desperation to terror? With Alain Bertho, we can talk about a presentism, ie a lasting present, without past or future.
Jason E. Smith, Aron Benanav: Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation, Automation and the Future of Work
GROWTH: Capitalism, through "creative destruction" and technological disruption, created the conditions for a new cycle of economic growth. But now the trend seems to continue towards zero. Is it a vicious circle of global competition, falling prices, overcapacity, technological inertia (rather than innovation) and falling incentives to invest – which is the cause of capitalism's protracted crisis?
Eyal Weizman & Matthew Fuller: Investigative Aesthetics
POWER: The investigative rather than critical practice, characterizes a new generation of journalists, artists and NGOs. They process large datasets in order to point out abuses. Like the poison gas attack in Syria, or American secret prisons.
Benjamin Bratton: The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World
COVID-19: It is difficult to read Bratton's positive biopolitics as anything other than a form of technocratic authoritarianism – where the subject is a point in a biopolitical network.
Emma Dowling: The Care Crisis. What Caused It and How Can We End It?
CARE:: The UK is increasingly dependent on the efforts of volunteers to provide citizens with a minimum of care while public services suffer from budget cuts and crises.