"in sellars you get an account of rationality that is rooted in practice and in marx you get a materialist account of sociality that is rooted in economic practices."

Theory

A lecture by Mark Fisher on Nick Land, Jean Francois Lyotard and Anti-vitalism.

Mark Fisher - Anti - Vital

Saturday 01.02.2014, CTM 2014 – Dis Continuity, Berlin

Lectures & panel discussion with Sadie Plant (UK/CH), Susanne Kirchmayr (AT), Fender Schrade (DE), Marie Thompson (UK. Moderation: Annie Goh (UK/DE)

Recent discourse on the subject of women and electronic music falls tendentially into two categories; either writing forgotten histories of pioneering work of women such as Daphne Oram, Elaine Radigue, Delia Derbyshire, Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher amongst many others, or with reference to the recent statistics via female:pressure, highlight the huge quantitative discrepancies between male and female musicians, DJs and producers represented at labels and music festivals worldwide. Whilst both can be considered worthwhile approaches in their own right, the former approach risks creating fetishized figures of "patchbay nuns" (Abi Bliss) and the latter finds hostile responses and risks ostracization in its own field. In both, one fundamentally important aspect remains overlooked - Judith Butler formulated this as the necessity not only to inquire how the category of “women” might become more fully represented - for example here in music -, but also crucially to understand and critique the very categories and structures of power in which these discourses operate.

Taking root from an abstract ontological level, in which binary categories of sex and gender have long been refuted (biologically as well as culturally), the panel aims to assess the interactions between sound, gender and technology from various philosophical and artistic positions. The widely discussed "cyberfeminism" borne in the early 1990s questioned the perpetuation of technology as a male-dominated domain, whilst also inciting digital culture as an ideal flourishing ground for subversive strategies. Though the relationship of this purported digital utopia never largely or explicitly addressed sound, it shares dimensions in its affective power as well as non-linear, decentralized and unhierarchical characteristics. 

After approximately two decades since cyberfeminism boomed - how can we assess the cyberfeminist dream of the subversive potentialities within technology in the current status quo? How does an inquiry into the nature of sound tally to the broader aims of cyberfeminism? Does a gendered understanding of technology and sound technologies help the dismantling of the structures which form sound, gender and technology today, or does it perpetuate these? Referring to both levels of feminist activism and feminist theory outlined above, as well as the dual tendencies within cybernetics towards order and chaos at the core of cyberfeminism – what can be identified as continuity and discontinuity in the structures of sound, gender and technology?

CTM 2014: Sound, Gender, Technology – "Where to" with Cyberfeminism?

ASCENSION

01 INSIDE THE FLUX OF THE MIND
02 YAH CUNT
03 AUTO SHADE
04 REMOVALS
05 REVOLTER

ASCENSION EP released August 7, 2015 in .MP3 format on Halcyon Veil / NON Records.

ARTWORK BY SUGAR MIST

MASTERED BY ARCA

ANGEL-HO - Yah Cunt

https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/juliana-huxtable-made-a-mix-for-feminist-techno-collective-discwomans-one-year-anniversary

Tracklist: 
M.I.A. / SWORDS (@STEEZIE_WONDER RE-SLASH)
@EVIANCHRIST / WATERFALL
DIAMOND / SIT THE FUCK DOWN
@CLUBATHLETICS / BURKA FATALE
@CIRQA / LATTICE
@CLAMMYCLAMS / HAUNT
TEYANA TAYLOR / BUSINESS
@KAMIXLO / MATA LO
@THAST / STOP HATIN (@GETFACE HATERADE REMIX)
ARCTIC / PAGE WRITTEN
@WWA / NO REASON
SHALT / GANYMEDE IMPACTOR
@ARCA1000000 / XEN (@FALSEWITNESS REMIX)
GRACE JONES / SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM (ACAPELLA ANONYMOUS VOL 02. VERSION)
@KID-ANTOINE / NIGHTVISION
GANGSTA BOO / PUSSY TASTE LIKE KUSH​

Discwoman party info: https://www.facebook.com/events/857754234339725/

Juliana Huxtable - Discwoman One-Year Anniversary Mix

One of the earliest discoveries of psychoanalysis concerned the intimate relation of the social structures and the unconscious mechanisms. Jacques Lacan later reframed this connection by speaking of homology between political and libidinal economy. In this way, he indicated that psychoanalysis significantly widened the space, in which critical thought and emancipatory politics should intervene in order to intensify the possibilities of a social change. The talk will begin by discussing two concepts, which demonstrate a wide-reaching link between Marx and Freud's critical projects, before passing on to more general examination of the link between libidinal bonds and mechanisms of exploitation.

Politics Between Narcissism and Negativity - A CPCT Talk by Samo Tomsic

As we swirl about in the vertiginous technosphere, the translation of our world into a data-material complex, brings with it the promise (and threat) of the total measurability of life itself. While the debates rage, the leaks mount, and our world becomes parametricized into, and by probability patterns (a regime of risk management); our modes of governance remain largely trapped by anachronistic procedures that are incommensurable with twenty-first century reality. This talk addresses the need for, and speculates on post-Westphalian models that aim to measure up to the planetary demands of our entangled, collective, and technocondition — extraterritorial demands that are deeply at odds with the very concept of a border.

Nervous Systems I Measuring Up by Laboria Cuboniks (represented by Patricia Reed and Diann Bauer)

Listen to my brand new set. I selected and mixed my all time favourite Satin Jackets records in a best of compilation. Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/alexbaloghofficial

"BEST OF SATIN JACKETS" mixed by Alex Balogh

Having just released the 3rd release on our label, the “Delta Night EP”, we decided it would be the perfect time to showcase all 12 tracks from our last 3 releases. So enjoy over an hour of fantastic Nu Disco and House music from some seriously talented artists, all lovingly mixed for you by Sasha Anastasov.


Tracklisting:

1. Gayana - “Since The Night” (Klar&PF Remix) - PJV006
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/b2-gayana-sincethenight-klarpf-remix-pre-order

2. Sasha Anastasov - “Sea For Two” - PJV006
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/b1-sasha-anastasov-sea-for-two-pre-order

3. Benny & Gain - "Approval" - PJV004
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/b2-benny-gain-approval-pre-order-now

4. Cucumbers - "Never Knew" - PJV005
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/cucumbers-never-knew

5. Darko Kustura - "Peninsula" - PJV004
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/darko-kustura-peninsula

6. Slync - "Toasted" - PJV005
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/b2-slync-toasted-pre-order-now

7. Cassara - "Shadow Show" - PJV005
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/cassara-shadow-show


8. Cassara - "Lady Leopard" - PJV004
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/cassara-lady-leopard

9. Pioneerball - “Deltaplane” - PJV006
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/a1-pioneerball-deltaplane-pre-order

10. Cassara - "The Forest" - PJV004
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/b1-cassara-the-forest-pre-order-now

11. Darko Kustura - "Soul Divide" - PJV005
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/darko-kustura-soul-divide

12. Falqo - “Across The Sea” - PJV006
https://soundcloud.com/pole-jam-vinyl/a2-falqo-acrossthesea-pre-order

Pole Jam Vinyl Showcase 2

Pole Jam Vinyl – 'Showcase Mix Part 2' - (Mixed by Sasha Anastasov)

Colloque 6, 7 & 8 avril 2017. Le conflit politique : logiques et pratiques
La recomposition du capital autour des technologies de la communication en réseau a un double effet : d'une part ouvrir de nouvelles opportunités et de nouvelles forces pour les capitalistes ; d'autre part à l'inverse, accentuer la fragmentation et l'inconsistance de la gauche. Dans ces conditions, comment reposer la question du sujet de la politique ? En particulier : comment doit être pensée l'articulation entre ce sujet et l'économie ? Le sujet de la politique n'est pas le produit d'une infrastructure économique ; il n'est p​as pour autant "sans rapport" avec les configurations spécifiques de l'économie à une époque donnée (comme peuvent le faire croire Laclau et Mouffe). Il s'agit de penser le sujet de la politique à partir du peuple, à condition que celui-ci ne soit pas pensé comme un Tout, mais au contraire comme ce qui manque à faire un tout - un manque éminemment positif.

Jodi Dean, Communicative capitalism and the subject of politics

>ect explores why philosophers are compelled to understand the social reality of which philosophy is a part.

"To really distinguish the ideal and the real is to understand how they are distinguished in practice, and not in thought - in what we do, and not in what we represent ourselves as doing."

"A philosophy that doesn't try to understand social reality - that doesn't try to understand its own connection to a world that wasn't created to be philosophisable - is not being done seriously."

Music

"I'm into CB" by The Fall
"I Sexoualiki Polyrrythmia Kai Ta Tria Paidia (Instrumental)" by Manos Hadjidakis (Sweet Movie Soundtrack) 


Artwork

"Lineare Komposition (Linear Composition)" by Ljubow Popowa

>ect 9 In Conversation with Ray Brassier

I’m proud to post the board audio of our recent collaboration with Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani (author of Cyclonopedia, and the upcoming book ‘The Mortiloquist‘) for 23Five’s Activating the Medium Festival at the Lab.

More can be read about the origins and concept behind this piece here, aspects of which are better understood through watching the attached video.

http://www.mathewdryhurst.com/2012/05/overview-of-collusion/

Holly Herndon /Mat Dryhurst/Reza Negarestani - Collusion (live)

A kind of philosophy podcast

Contact: ectfeedback@gmail.com

>ect 9 In Conversation with Ray Brassier

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