Research — ekaterina maisheva design

CIRCUIT SPECTERS: The Self and Digital Systems of Control

HITO STEYERL
“Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy”

The article by Steyerl explores the role that contemporary art has played in setting up the scene of the post-Cold War paradigm and its relation to economic exploitation.

“Contemporary art thus not only reflects, but actively intervenes in the transition towards a new post-Cold War world order.”
(Steyerl, 2010)

ALEX DEMIROVIC
“Hegemony and the Paradox of Public and Private”

The article explores the idea of a public sphere and its ties to economic interests and political domination.

“Civil society is an area in which comprehensive social parties form, generalizing their interests through political coalitions and seeking to push their particular world-view onto others.”
(Demirovic, 2004)

BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE
“A Manual for the Immaterial Worker”

The article deconstructs the labor conditions of the modern worker producing continuous work that lacks materiality with digital technologies.

“The transformation from a Fordist to post-Fordist production model is when the symbolic value—design and aesthetics—of a good surpasses or equals its use value.”
(BfOC, 2011)

INSTITUTE OF NETWORK CULTURES
Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse

The source deals with the politics of the image and our expectation of “the end” under late capitalism.

“The screen represents the design of a society in which everything is transparent and nothing is material. At a point in which the technology of the screen is almost everywhere, reality itself cannot but disappear into the absurd design of simulacra.”
(Sbordoni, 2023)

MICHEL FOUCAULT
The Politics of Truth

The book is a collection that reflects the body of work that occupied Foucault’s life.

“Nothing can function as a mechanism of power if it is not deployed according to procedures, instruments, means and objectives which can be validated in more or less coherent systems of knowledge.”
(Foucault, 1997)

K-HOLE
“Fragmoretation”

The article focuses on the state of consumerism as branding approaches limits of authenticity and obscurity is sought after.

“Some economies are veiled because they are spread out over space.”
(K-Hole, 2011)

TIQQUN
The Cybernetic Hypothesis

The work explores cybernetic processes as systems of control, the role of information and its impact under capitalism.

“A system is never pure and perfect: there is a degradation of its energy to the extent that it undergoes exchanges, in the same way as information degrades as it is circulated around.”
(Tiqqun, 2001)

GEORGES CANGUILHEM
“Machine and Organism”

Georges compares mechanical processes of to organic processes of the human body, searching for philosophical meaning within its connection.

“The mechanistic conception of the body was no less anthropomorphic, despite appearances, than a teleological conception of the physical world.”
(Canguilhem, 2017)

MARK FISHER
The Weird and the Eerie

The book looks at the modern human condition through a critical lens of contemporary Gothic fiction.

“The most fundamental opposition of all -between presence and absence. As we have seen, the weird is constituted by a presence — the presence of that which does not belong. In some cases of the weird the weird is marked by an exorbitant presence, a teeming which exceeds our capacity to represent it."
(Fisher, 2016)

PAUL ELLIMAN
“City of Words”

Elliman talks about the role of typography with the development of the cyberspace, specifically how it translates into the role of typography in spaces. The network of information begins to absorb the meaning of physical spaces, often reflecting the "modernity struggling to hold itself together".

“... in the luminous control panel... the same mineral glow as the stars, the same inexhaustible and secret light”
(Elliman, 2001)

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