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podcast series.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="display:none">-----</span><span><span></span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Dear friends,<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>I'd like to share with you our new podcast series.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Thanks for listening! :)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Marcela</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="http://aksioma.org">aksioma.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✦</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px"> </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✦</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px"> </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✦</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="display:none">I’d like to share with you our new
podcast series.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="display:none">Thanks for listening :)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="display:none">Best,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="display:none">Marcela</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=a7f04e70fb&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><b>Are You A Software Update?</b></a><br>
A New Podcast Series<br>
<br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">With the <b><a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=f616a56c09&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-weight:normal">tactics&practice #16: Are
You A Software Update?</span></a></b> 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 <b>Neja Berger</b> curated and hosted a new
season of podcasts.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span> <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span> <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When critique obsesses over hidden depths, it mirrors the very logic it
opposes, demanding revelation while overlooking the potency of the surface. This
<a href="https://aksioma.org/podcast/are-you-a-software-update" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">podcast series</a> 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.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="en-SI">Ep. #1 </span></b><span lang="en-SI" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span><b><span lang="en-SI"> Memes as Sympoietic Agents
</span></b><span lang="en-SI">→ <a href="https://aksioma.org/ayasu-ep1">released!</a><br>
Researcher <b>Sophie Publig</b> 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.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="en-SI">Ep. #2 </span></b><span lang="en-SI" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span><b><span lang="en-SI"> The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal</span></b><span lang="en-SI"> → 9 September 2025<br>
Artist and theorist <b>Alex Quicho</b> introduces <i>the Girl</i> as
a tripartite technology of subjectivity—symbolic, consumer, and
inhuman—offering strategies for navigating planetary computation from within
its blind spots.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="en-SI">Ep. #3 </span></b><span lang="en-SI" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span><b><span lang="en-SI"> Hexing the Algorithm</span></b><span lang="en-SI"> → 16 September 2025<br>
Artist and author <b>Shaka McGlotten</b> proposes witchy tactics
against quantification: opacity, fugitivity, and computational hexes that shift
us from critique to conjure—seducing the machine off-script.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="en-SI">Ep. #4 </span></b><span lang="en-SI" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span><b><span lang="en-SI"> Revolution in the Minor
Key</span></b><span lang="en-SI"> → 23 September 2025<br>
Professor <b>Carolyn Pedwell</b> explores how subtle tendencies,
affective inhabitation, and collective habits accumulate power, building
infrastructures of care and resistance when shock and rupture fall short.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Ep. #5 </b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span> → 28 November 2025</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In this episode, Neja Berger will talk to <b>Bogna Konior</b> about <i>The
Dark Forest Theory of the Internet</i>, her latest book to be released at the
end of November by Polity.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">This and all
previous seasons are <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=0dbdb210a4&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">available on the Aksioma website</a> and on the following
podcast platforms: <br>
<br>
<a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=05df9b0652&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=40013bba41&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=951eefbc01&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">SoundCloud</a> | <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=602d6085aa&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">YouTube Music</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px"> </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px"> </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">✧</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif"><br></span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Marcela Okretič</div><div>Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</div><div><a href="http://www.aksioma.org" target="_blank">www.aksioma.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>