⭑ NEW RELEASE ⭑ 𝑊𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝐵𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗢𝗜𝗗+ 🔗 Preview & order The consumption of marginal media practices has a long history, which has only now, thanks to the power of algorithmic curation, found full expression in the phenomenon of brainrot. Through an analysis of peripheral media, the structuring of content as a digital hole, and the operationalisation of short-form content within the computational economy, this essay illustrates how brainrot can be read as an untethered expression of algorithmic culture. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗢𝗜𝗗+ is an international group of researchers and artists who

⟢ NEW RELEASE ⟣ PostScriptUM#56 | 𝗠. 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝘇𝗶 | 𝐶𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠: 𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐻𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 🔗 Preview & order In 2024, four MIT researchers named a hypothesis after Plato’s cave: neural networks, trained on different data and tasks, converge on one representation of reality. In Cave Machines, 𝗠. 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝘇𝗶 takes the conjecture at its word, following it back to Plato, where it comes apart. The models never turn from the wall; the reality behind their agreement falls away. What remains is stranger than realism: representation as construction, structure built, not found, a

Becoming Image [𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁] 🎧️ 𝗘𝟮: 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗿𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 is out! > Listen here < What does thinking or imaging look like when it’s optimised for scroll, repetition and affect? When thinking itself becomes “scrollified,” how do these forces rewire imagination and compress attention? 🎠 Interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗝𝗼𝘆 discusses their research-driven practice exploring subjectivity in networked media and how images circulate and shape identity, desire, and perception. ❤1🔥1