P. J. Ennis Visual: Guy Birkin The following is source material drawn from Tropical by PJ Ennis, a novel about the collapse of a post-cryptocurrency... more

Edmund Berger Split Futures  “Crypto is libertarian, AI is communist” was the declaration uttered by venture capitalist and PayPal founder... more

Nick Land Image by @deepchimera §0.0 — On November 1, 2008, “Satoshi Nakamoto” introduced his “Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper” in an email to... more

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Dominic Fox The Professor Branestawm stories by Norman Hunter depict an eccentric, absent-minded professor whose inventions invariably develop... more

Patrick Steadman Recent examples of shadowy arts funding and hacking attacks on culture organizations hint at how nation-state level actors can... more

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Arran Crawford Exit is first and foremost the concept of renunciation. // E. Antony Gray[1] …and this means the abandonment of political action and... more

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  Text and images by Matt Colquhoun What does it say about photography’s beginnings that one of the first self-portraits depicts a staged... more

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