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Still from Keiken, Morphogenic Angels , 2022–23, prototype role-playing game. Courtesy: the artists

Still from Keiken, Morphogenic Angels, 2022–23, prototype role-playing game. Courtesy: the artists

Artist Talk: Keiken

On Friday 31 March at Soho House Berlin, Tanya Cruz speaks to Adina Glickstein about Keiken’s latest game, Morphogenic Angels, and the collective’s transmedial production of speculative worlds.

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Still from “EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING,” produced by Praxis Society, 2023

Still from “EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING,” produced by Praxis Society, 2023

User Error: Angel Investors on Holy Land

Hearing murmurs of crypto city-states in the making, Adina Glickstein ponders the complicated politics of exit.

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Miu Miu, fall 2022 ready-to-wear collection. Photo: Filippo Fior 

Miu Miu, fall 2022 ready-to-wear collection. Photo: Filippo Fior 

User Error: Neostalgia

Forget Y2K; the 2010s are already back again. But retromania leads us down into a labyrinth of data horror, writes Adina Glickstein in her February column. 

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Still from Toshi Hoo, Raymond Kurzweil, Anthony Waller,  The Singularity Is Near , 2010 (detail)

Still from Toshi Hoo, Raymond Kurzweil, Anthony Waller, The Singularity Is Near, 2010

User Error: Brain Worms

Will we still set New Year’s resolutions when our consciousness lives on computers? Adina Glickstein rings in 2023 with transhumanists, goblins, and worms. 

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Courtroom sketch of Elizabeth Holmes being cross-examined by prosecutor Robert Leach, November 30, 2021. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer

Courtroom sketch of Elizabeth Holmes being cross-examined by prosecutor Robert Leach, November 30, 2021. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer

User Error: Fraud

This month, Adina Glickstein considers three girls’ grifts – and the startup-ification of subjectivity that might be the real crime after all.  

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Steven Warwick, Scarecrow , 2021. Photo: Angele Balducci

Steven Warwick, Scarecrow, 2021. Photo: Angele Balducci

User Error: Don’t Be Evil

Being bad feels good. This month, Adina Glickstein chats with the artist Steven Warwick about scapegoats, salvation, and Stanley Kubrick.

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Urbit graphic design by Romina Malta

Urbit graphic design by Romina Malta

User Error: A More Beautiful Computer

Is Dimes Square a Network State? At Urbit Assembly, Adina Glickstein looks for an exit.

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Extinction meme via @angelicism01archive2 on Instagram

Extinction meme via @angelicism01archive2 on Instagram

User Error: Extinction Postmortem

Adina Glickstein writes a travel diary from the end of the end of the world.

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Aroma Ad Astra

Scent, memory, and language all imperfectly conjure the moments we keep coming back to. Adina Glickstein writes about Rimbaud, a new fragrance from Celine.