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Nick Atkins
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Theatre maker & researcher. PhD candidate - liveness, performance, digital, location-based media. Darug Country / Parramatta, Aus. More: operatedcoin.com
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Nov 1 at 2 PM PT: live remote reading of my play FUTURE EMERGENCIES. info from The Larking House Theatre's Playwrights Intensive. www.larkinghouse.com/playwrightsi...
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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today in pocket theatre, i write abt yt liberal guilt and trauma theatre. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
yt liberal guilt and trauma theatre
on refusing the object of desire
open.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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csvich.bsky.social
May 15 #theatre:
TRANSMEDIA THEATRE PLAYS.
ed. by Caridad Svich.
featuring Ontroerend Goed, Dead Centre, Fehinti Balogun and Complicite, Dante or Die, Ike Holter, Heather Christian, and @danielyorkloh.bsky.social .
from @methuendrama.bsky.social
order:
www.bloomsburydrama.com/us/transmedi...
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May 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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One of the best things I've ever posted: Mark Ravenhiil's 101 notes on playwriting. It was originally published as a series of tweets. This version's even better because Ravenhill has annotated it a bit.

Do yourself a favor. Click on the link.

www.writeaplay.co.uk/mark-ravenhi...
ARCHIVE- Mark Ravenhill 101 Notes on Playwriting - The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
Mark Ravenhill’s plays include ‘Shopping and Fucking’ and ‘The Cane’ (Royal Court Theatre’, ‘Mother Clap’s Molly House’ and ‘Citizenship’ (National Theatre)  ‘The Cut’ (Donmar) and...
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April 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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fascism has appropriated all aspects of tech as its own, when tech very much does not belong to fascists nor is it a result of them. it was taken from the original idealists who believed things like the internet belonged to everyone. tech is communal. it is democratic. as all innovation should be.
March 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Yep they knew. Heinous fucks. Please listen to my interview on @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social with the mother of the 14 year old boy who did just this after being obviously and repeatedly manipulated by a chatbot (link below)
mharrisondupre.bsky.social Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · Mar 18
NEW: Months before Google was accused in a lawsuit of facilitating the suicide of a teen user of the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI, researchers at Google DeepMind warned in a paper that chatbots could target minors and manipulate vulnerable users into suicide.

futurism.com/google-suici...
Futurism On Deaf Ears Mar 18, 10:15 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers "A user," the Google researchers cautioned, could be "persuaded to take their own life." Image: a collage of kids staying up late on their phones, with several hiding under their covers.
March 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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world on fire but the new book i edited TRANSMEDIA THEATRE PLAYS is in print May 2025 from @methuendrama.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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KITE CHOIR is raising $20,000 to develop prototyping interactive kite spools, software design, and test flights of custom-made kites. All donations over $2 are tax-deductible! Contribute via the @Australian Cultural Fund

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Kite Choir - Help Us Fly
DONATE NOW! www.kitechoir.com
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February 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Caught the @nationaltheatre.org.uk’s Live of The Importance of Being Earnest tonight at @broadwaycinema.bsky.social. It was incredible. Ridiculous. Camp. Masterful in ensemble comedy. Haven’t laughed that much at theatre in years. Do catch it in cinemas, it’s definitely worth it.
A piano in the centre, an actor in a bright pink dress, it’s camp and outrageous. Other actors in period costumes around the piano. It’s so very camp, and dramatic in lighting.
February 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Call for proposals! 📢

Submissions for the Theatre And series are now open. Submit your proposal for a 25,000-word book on a topic of your choosing.

More info 👉 bit.ly/4jIU5MY
Download a proposal form 🗒️ bit.ly/4jKP7z5

Submissions close 30 March!
February 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
arstechnica.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Rogue AI’s are real, and have already been demonstrated in laboratory tests www.lawfaremedia.org/article/rogu...
Rogue AI Moves Three Steps Closer
OpenAI’s new o3 model suggests that it will not be long before AI systems are as smart as their human minders—or smarter.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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"individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto" is coming soon to Steam.
you can wishlist it now!
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individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto on Steam
Follow coins under the electric mist of a clouded starry sky. Discover hyper-links. Listen to the words both inside and outside your head. Seal your fate before the productivity machine in this intera...
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January 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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sarahana.bsky.social Sarahana @sarahana.bsky.social · Jan 4
#1 Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss it When It's Gone – @astra.bsky.social

Faith in democracy is in shambles, but as this book reminds us, democracy is not static—it’s dynamic, and most importantly, it’s an active site of struggle. Your intellectual armor for organizing!
January 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Really, really excited about this new book on the AI bullshit by Jathan Sadowski
jathansadowski.com Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Jan 5
Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism

Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...
Photo of a white man's hand holding a book titled THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE. subtitled A RUTHLESS CRITICISM of TECHNOLOGY and CAPITALISM. author JATHAN SADOWSKI. The cover is a mottled red and orange with an image of a circular toothed gear with a crossed wrench and hammer inside. The title is rockered over the top of the gear and the subtitle is rockered below the gear. Back cover of THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE book. DEMYSTIFIES HOW TWO SYSTEMS — TECHNOLOGY AND CAPITALISM — WORK TOGETHER AND EQUIPS US WITH TOOLS TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD Our society is constantly serving the needs of technology and capitalism. Neither system exists outside humans, but both are treated as above and beyond us. The Mechanic and the Luddite provides the critical tools we need to deconstruct these systems-how they work and what work they do in our lives. But It's not enough to know how the machinery of capitalism and technology operate; we also need to know whom the machines serve in order to decide whether they should be taken apart, rebuilt, or destroyed for good. With signature style, Jathan Sadowski gives readers a provocative and handy manual for understand- ing the power of technology and capitalism and, crucially, the power we must take back. "Jathan Sadowski is one of the most incisive and important thinkers on technology and capitalism today. This urgent book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the deeper political economy that shapes the digital domain and, by extension, every facet of modern life -ASTRA TAYLOR, author of The Age of Security: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart "Smart, urgent, and bluntly powerful, this book is required reading for anyone who seeks to understand how technology gets made — and whom it's made to serve. The time for a thunderous new Luddite politics is now and Sadowski's accessible manifesto delivers" -BRIAN MERCHANT, author of flood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Sadowski's crisp and active prose generously illuminates technology's relationship to flows of money and power and the whims of those who wield them." MEREDITH WHITTAKER, Chief Advisor and Cofounder, Al Now Institute JATHAN SADOWSKI is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He is author of Too Smart and host of the podcast This Machine Kills
January 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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December 7, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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A MAZE Berlin 2025 is open for submissions let’s go! 2025.amaze-berlin.de
A MAZE. / Berlin 2025
Get your early bird tickets and save the dates for A MAZE. / Berlin 2025 on May 14 — 17, 2025.
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December 17, 2024 at 4:47 AM
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Missed the Metamodern Theatre Symposium? Don’t panic! The whole event is now available to watch on YouTube

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A 5 part video playlist ft. @gregdember.bsky.social @katekavs.bsky.social @csvich.bsky.social @dermotdaly.bsky.social and more! #academicsky #theatresky #MetaSymp
Metamodern Theatre Symposium - YouTube
The Metamodern Theatre Symposium was held at The University of East London and online on 19.11.24 to launch the book Metamodernism in Contemporary British Th...
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December 3, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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I’m talking all things sound, game engines and live art with Sally Coleman, Jacob Hedges and Yunyu Ong for @UTS 5pm, Dec 6 🎧👾🕹️. #FASStival. It’s take two of our @sxswsydney chat if you missed it. Tix at - events.humanitix.com...
Sound Bytes - Game Engines x Music
Get tickets on Humanitix - Sound Bytes - Game Engines x Music hosted by UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. UTS Central (Building 2), Level 4 Foyer space, 61 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia. Friday 6th December 2024. Find event information.
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November 28, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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curious to learn about the Web Revival? (you should be)

we're bringing the human internet back, baby

check out this fantastic manifesto:
thoughts.melonking.net/guides/intro...
screenshot of a webpage that says: Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? Published: May 20, 2022 Modified: September 20, 2023 Hello, brave netizen! If you’ve found your way onto this guide then you have embarked on the first exciting step into the Web Revival. This guide will give you the low down on all things web! By the end of it you’ll know what the Web Revival is, what it stands for, and how you can take part in it; grab your browser because surfs up on the net and we’re goin.. er.. surfi'n!
November 25, 2024 at 7:22 AM
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I wish every suburb had place where young people can make art on their own terms like @ShopfrontArtsCoop. The team is campaigning for a new roof. If you can spare a dollar to support - every dollar is matched 1:1 by a kind donor. Link below.

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November 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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My essential Theatre books which I frequently use when making work:

Different Every Night - Mike Alfreds

The great teacher/director’s guide to finding the dramatic spine of a play and using it to release imagination and creativity.
November 23, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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I’ve begun a starter pack for film, tv, theatre, digital - loads missing so please comment below & I’ll add you. If it gets too big, I’ll break it down into more specific platforms / disciplines / forms. But for now, welcome! It’s great to see so many talented storytellers here!
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November 18, 2024 at 12:51 PM