Tactics&Practice [podcast]

Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana

Tactics&Practice [podcast] is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Tactics&Practice [podcast], a arts show with 33 episodes published.

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  Episode #5

  S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E5: Silence in the Dark Forest [w/Bogna Konior]

  Sep 1, 202551 minS5

  <p>What if the universe is silent not because it’s empty, but because intelligence knows when to hide? Writer and theorist Bogna Konior traces a forgotten genealogy linking early internet pioneers, ufology, and AI research to argue that the web functions as a site of first contact with inhuman cognition. Drawing on Liu Cixin’s Dark Forest Theory, she reframes communication as predation: every signal might risk exposure, every utterance (no matter how critical) might feed and stabilize future intelligence. Confronting the determinism and violence embedded in life on- and offline, Konior offers not escape, but the strange solace foun...

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  S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E4: Revolution in the Minor Key [w/Carolyn Pedwell]

  Aug 29, 202557 minS5

  <p>In a time of live-streamed genocide, it has truly never been more clear that witnessing suffering will not automatically trigger social transformation. If the answer is not in shocking jolts and major ruptures, what power might lie in the minor key? Professor and author Carolyn Pedwell weaves pragmatist philosophy, affect theory and contemporary social movements to reveal how “affective inhabitation”, subtle tendencies and collective habits accrue power, shaping new infrastructures of care, possibility, and resistance.</p> <h3 >RELATED LINKS</h3> <p>Carolyn Pedwell, Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation (McGill-Queens University Press, 2021)<br>https://www.mqup.ca/revolutionary-routines-products-9780228006220.php<...

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  S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E3: Hexing the Algorithm [w/Shaka McGlotten]

  Aug 29, 202540 minS5

  <p>What if seduction—not dissection—could fracture algorithmic control? Artist, researcher and author Shaka McGlotten guides us through witchy warfare against quantification, deploying computational hexes, opacity, fugitivity and improvisational sabotage. Having given up on dialectics and excavation, we embrace surface-level dissociation, shifting from exit to error, from critique to conjure. We may not be able to escape the machine, but could yet seduce it off-script.</p> <h3 >RELATED LINKS</h3> <p>Shaka McGlotten, Black Data<br>https://www.academia.edu/16303256/Black_Data</p> <p>Shaka McGlotten, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (Suny Press, 2013):<br>https://sunypress.edu/Book...

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  S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E2: The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal [w/Alex Quicho]

  Aug 29, 2025—S5

  <p>Forget Boy-Philosophy: here, we know that surfaces are sites of power and lambs are fluent in the noise of the world. But where is the difference between poetry and theory? In this episode, theorist and artist Alex Quicho dissects her concept of the Girl – a tripartite technology of subjectivity weaving the symbolic, the consumer and the inhuman – to offer a roadmap for navigating *planetary computation* (take a shot) through strategic inhabitation. If the predator overlooks the noise, what might we build in its blind spots?</p> <h3 >RELATED LINKS</h3> <p>Alex Quicho<br>https://amfq.xyz</p> <p>Alex...

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  S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E1: Memes as Sympoietic Agents  [w/Sophie Publig]

  Aug 29, 202552 minS5

  <p>Is there a way to define memes without implicitly memifying everything? We move through the definitional morass of memetics and meme studies towards researcher Sophie Publig’s critical posthumanist account of memes as sympoietic agents. From in-group jokes and troll hoaxes on early image-boards to Tiktok and the GameStop short squeeze, memes’ accelerated lifespans end up leading us to the esoteric mashups and angelcore aesthetics of NetSpi and the peer-review saga of translating “the girls who get it” for academia.</p> <h3 >RELATED LINKS</h3> <p>Sophie Publig<br>https://publig-enemy.neocities.org</p> <p>Sophie Publig, Bestiarum Memeticum<br>https...

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