[spectre] Are You A Software Update? A New Podcast Series

[Marcela Okretič]

I’d like to share with you our new podcast series.

Thanks for listening :)

Best,

Marcela



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Dear friends,

I'd like to share with you our new podcast series.

Thanks for listening! :)


Best,

Marcela

aksioma.org



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I’d like to share with you our new podcast series.

Thanks for listening :)

Best,

Marcela



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*Are You A Software Update?*
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=a7f04e70fb&e=b2b01b8bf8>
A New Podcast Series

With the *tactics&practice #16: Are You A Software Update?
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=f616a56c09&e=b2b01b8bf8>*
programme
we dedicated the first half of 2025 to exploring, in various languages and
formats, how software systems influence human actions, participation, and
work. To delve further into the topic, journalist and researcher *Neja
Berger* curated and hosted a new season of podcasts.


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When critique obsesses over hidden depths, it mirrors the very logic it
opposes, demanding revelation while overlooking the potency of the surface.
This podcast series
<https://aksioma.org/podcast/are-you-a-software-update> explores
how power might be disrupted not by digging deeper, but engaging its own
seemingly superficial terrain: weaponizing seduction in memes, Girls,
glitches, and camp; cultivating habits; deploying enchantments. Perhaps the
question isn’t whether we are due for an update, but how we might update
differently – not by feeding the recursive loops that fragment our
movements, but through the ambient transformation that unfolds in the
cracks of what is already visible.


*Ep. #1 *✧* Memes as Sympoietic Agents *→ released!
<https://aksioma.org/ayasu-ep1>
Researcher *Sophie Publig* rethinks memes as sympoietic agents, from early
image-board hoaxes to TikTok trends, angelcore aesthetics, and the academic
saga of “the girls who get it.”


*Ep. #2 *✧* The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal* → 9 September 2025
Artist and theorist *Alex Quicho* introduces *the Girl* as a tripartite
technology of subjectivity—symbolic, consumer, and inhuman—offering
strategies for navigating planetary computation from within its blind spots.


*Ep. #3 *✧* Hexing the Algorithm* → 16 September 2025
Artist and author *Shaka McGlotten* proposes witchy tactics against
quantification: opacity, fugitivity, and computational hexes that shift us
from critique to conjure—seducing the machine off-script.


*Ep. #4 *✧* Revolution in the Minor Key* → 23 September 2025
Professor *Carolyn Pedwell* explores how subtle tendencies, affective
inhabitation, and collective habits accumulate power, building
infrastructures of care and resistance when shock and rupture fall short.


*Ep. #5 *✧ → 28 November 2025

In this episode, Neja Berger will talk to *Bogna Konior* about *The Dark
Forest Theory of the Internet*, her latest book to be released at the end
of November by Polity.


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This and all previous seasons are available on the Aksioma website
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=0dbdb210a4&e=b2b01b8bf8>
and
on the following podcast platforms:

Spotify
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=05df9b0652&e=b2b01b8bf8>
 | Apple Podcasts
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=40013bba41&e=b2b01b8bf8>
 | SoundCloud
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=951eefbc01&e=b2b01b8bf8>
 | YouTube Music
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=602d6085aa&e=b2b01b8bf8>



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Marcela Okretič
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
www.aksioma.org
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