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Diego Gómez-Venegas
@digomezvenegas.bsky.social
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media researcher / media artist

https://www.gomezvenegas.com/
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futurehistories.bsky.social
Following up on the two recent #FutureHistories episodes with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social), here you'll find the full versions of his new papers #BeyondCapitalism 1 & 2 -> buff.ly/k23voql

Must read!

Find the two episodes here:
Ep1 -> buff.ly/MkPKGXT
Ep2 -> buff.ly/dqWZ5Q3
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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ktbberlin.bsky.social
Check out our website for the full programme of our planning workshop, including a reading list of the text basis for our discussions: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
The other day I paid a visit to the “Robotron – Code und Utopie” exhibition at the GfZK in Leipzig. It’s really a great show about technology, industry, politics, socialism, capitalism, and art. If you can, check it out (until February)

#GDR #Computing #Socialism #Cybernetics
A large information panel at the entrance of the exhibition showing the title – Robotron: Code and Utopia – and a long introductory text
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
I do remember what the director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Klaus Biesenbach, did and said after Nan Goldin's speech last year here in Berlin …
The Bitter Tears of Klaus Biesenbach – the Diasporist
How Germany's cultural elite finds the opinion of Jewish artists hard to bear
thediasporist.de
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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disquiet.bsky.social
The excellent You Are Listening To website got a relaunch/reskin/reboot:

youarelistening.to
youarelistening.to – Blending ambient music with city sounds since 2011.youarelistening.to – Blending ambient music with city sounds since 2011.
youarelistening.to
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
Last Thursday, at the @proqm.bsky.social bookshop, I attended Daniel Ross’s presentation of his translation of Bernard Stiegler’s The Immense Regression – What is Called Caring? Vol. 1 (K. Verlag). It was a wonderful presentation of a book that seems to be a pharmakon itself
Cover of Bernard Stiegler’s The Immense Regression – What is Called Caring? Vol. 1, translated by Daniel Ross and published by K. Verlag in Berlin
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
I had a great couple of days at the #SHOT2025 conference in Luxembourg. Our panel went really well and I enjoyed presenting my work there. I thank @iiil.li for inviting me and the SHOT/EDITH Special Interest Group for supporting me with a travel grant. I hope to see you all next year
October 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
Happy to report from Esch, Luxembourg where I’m participating in the 2025 Annual Conference of the Society of History of Technology (SHOT). Great presentations and dialogues going on. I’m presenting tomorrow morning. Excited.

#SHOT2025 #HistoryofTechnology #MediaStudies #Chile #Cybernetics
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
Paso relámpago por las tierras de #Marx
This picture shows a train station sing that reads “Trier Hbf” – meaning, Trier Central Station
October 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
I am very proud of the beautiful new website that @larspinkwart.com has designed and built for @digitalculturesandarts.ch – there'll be more information added in the coming weeks, but please check it out! digitalculturesandarts.ch
digital cultures and arts
Activites of the DIZH bridge professorship Digital Cultures and Arts between University of Zurich and Zurich University of the Arts.
digitalculturesandarts.ch
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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rarar.com
Dyer-Witheford & Mularoni adapt Marx's circuit of capital for big tech, stressing that big tech circulates rather than produces—an important reframe of platform power www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d... cc @versobooks.bsky.social
Diagrams of Cybernetic Circulation
Our book Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis examines the U.S. tech sector through the Marxist concept of “circulation.” We focus on the major U.S. tech oligopolies—the origi...
www.versobooks.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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digomezvenegas.bsky.social
My paper on Stafford Beer’s “Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism,” which was presented at the #POM 2024 conference, has finally been published.

If you’re interested in #cybernetics, #Marxism, #diagrams, and #art-research, you may want to check it out:

www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Techno-Diagrammatics: An Experimental Inquiry into Cybernetic Modes of Organisation? (The case of 1970s Chile)
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d17691545e56">This article introduces a method of art research called techno-diagrammatics through the...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
My paper on Stafford Beer’s “Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism,” which was presented at the #POM 2024 conference, has finally been published.

If you’re interested in #cybernetics, #Marxism, #diagrams, and #art-research, you may want to check it out:

www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Techno-Diagrammatics: An Experimental Inquiry into Cybernetic Modes of Organisation? (The case of 1970s Chile)
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d17691545e56">This article introduces a method of art research called techno-diagrammatics through the...
www.scienceopen.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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shanedenson.bsky.social
Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions!

My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a…
Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions!
My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a minute-by-minute engagement with the film, combining close looking, philosophical speculation, historical contextualization, and a variety of other ekphrastic and experimental approaches. Print versions are available anywhere books are sold, including on the&hellip;
www.blog.shanedenson.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
I finally got a hard copy of this rare report – the state of telegraphy (and telex networks) in Chile by 1970. A key document to understand infrastructural undertakings that unfolded right after that

#Chile #Telecommunications #Technology #History
The cover of “La Telegrafía en Chile,” by Lothar Diehl. A report from Chile’s Post and Telegraphy Department on the state of telecommunications infrastructure and technology in the country by 1970
September 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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shanedenson.bsky.social
Part of an ongoing conversation between @mbfazi.bsky.social and me on AI/LLMs as "synthetic media" -- more to come!
July 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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hptsociety.bsky.social
André Leroi-Gourhan was a pioneering French archaeologist, anthropologist, and philosopher whose work deeply influenced French philosophy of technology through his studies of human evolution, tools, and culture.
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August 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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campfireharve.st
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
Lauren Sonder at Bardo Projektraum #Berlin
August 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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hptsociety.bsky.social
Today we commemorate the passing of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most original voices in contemporary philosophy of technology.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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jacobinlat.bsky.social
En su vida doméstica, como en la interacción con sus amigos e incluso con quienes eran simples conocidos, creo que se puede decir que la principal característica de Karl Marx era su buen humor desatado y su simpatía ilimitada.
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Algunos recuerdos del Moro, por Eleanor Marx - Jacobin Revista
La militante socialista Eleanor Marx nació un día como hoy en 1855. En este texto de 1895, anota algunos recuerdos de su padre, «un amigo ideal».
jacobinlat.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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leonido.bsky.social
Noch nie habe ich das von Piketty beschriebene Problem r > g anschaulicher erklärt gesehen als in diesem Video von Gary Stevenson:
June 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
30 years ago, over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered in the Srebrenica genocide.

Today, politicians will say "never again". But they are letting it happen, again, in Gaza.

We remember all victims of genocide, and vow to build a world that respects the humanity of all.
July 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
digomezvenegas.bsky.social
I just read the entire piece, and I must say that I look forward to seeing it become a reality
rarar.com Raphael Arar @rarar.com · Jul 2
The monetary commons is an idea whose time has come! monetarycommons.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The monetary commons is an idea whose time has come! monetarycommons.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM