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Decolonial Hacker critically examines institutions, corporations, and nation states to interrogate their influence on the conditions of living.

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On the Decolonial Hacker extension, Sanja’s contribution hacks the German property company Deutsche Wohnen. 🏗🏦
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In the last year, the Decolonial Hacker website and browser extension have undergone a complete transformation.
An etching by S. W. Fores. “A Bonfire for the Poor or the Shame of Albion Exposed” (1791) Depicts a building in flames with shadowy figures fanning the flames as people flea by boat and others attempt to put of the fire. WORKER 1 I know I cannot hope to gain purchase in scruples in this sub-randian economy. But WORKER, you are always interrupting me! Though my memory barely took me past Tuesday, I tabled three hundred and thirty nine labour incursions against myself and WORKER. So I proposed a collective economic model I knew would be rejected. Such a situation would not constitute a total failure. This is also an exercise in liberating language...
July 30, 2023 at 11:55 AM
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Sanja teases out the relationship between cultural institutions and gentrification, the nascent power of interns who represent “a volatile mass… capable of destroying” their workplace from within, and the inertia of cultural workers under ideologically performative directorates.
Extract reading: “PROPERTY HAD LONG BEEN CONTESTED IN THE CITY; AS THE ARISTOCRATIC PROPRIETOR OF THE INSTITUTION WAS INCAPABLE OF ADEQUATELY CONCEPTUALISING SUCH A STRUGGLE, HE HAD INSTALLED A TEAM OF WORKERS WHOSE LOYALTIES WERE, IF NOT IDEOLOGICALLY, THEN AT LEAST STRUCTURALLY, OPPOSED TO HIS OWN-“ Extract reading: Do we agree with Fanny Howe, that the interns are the "invisible angels, here to transcribe what they see and pass it along"? In any case, INTERN represents a volatile mass, a slippery power bred by the institution but capable of destroying it; a potential mutiny.
July 30, 2023 at 11:51 AM
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We are very pleased to announce that following a one year pause, Decolonial Hacker has resumed its programming! On this occasion, we are thrilled to publish THE INSTITUTION by Sanja Grozdanić (sanjagrozdanic.net)

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Theatre with the a sign reading “NO PAST”, the road outside is wet and reflective. Excerpt reading: “More truthfully, for every city in its final stages of collusion and capture, ambiguous traces of the past are little more than an aesthetic category. If the pathos of ruins strikes you more viscerally, they exist to remind you that there is no exit. This is about demolishing time and not preserving it.”
July 30, 2023 at 11:49 AM