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Stephen Cornford
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artist working against toxic technologies | Co-director @CIIP

here I am largely posting my research about #PlanetaryFutures #GeoTechnics #CriticalMinerals […]

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I have been putting off buying a copy of this for *years* now, and for no good reason.

Finally gave in and immediately it’s arrived I regret not reading it the moment it came out.

🤦🏻‍♂️
Front cover of Ariella Azoulay’s book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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Best news I've had in ages.
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February 3, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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Wow . . . here's a blast from the past. Not seen one of these come up for sale before. We —myself and the good people from the museum of transitory Art in Ljubljana— made an edition of 12 of these.

Archipelago is a four track CD documenting the eponymous sound […]

[Original post on assemblag.es]
The top of a black plastic portable CD player with the words Stephen Cornford: Archipelago (Islet) neatly engraved in it.
January 29, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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I keep returning, again and again, to this paragraph from Achille Mbembe's book Brutalism. I can't think of a clearer summation of our current predicament.

We live in Brutalism.
Computational mechanisms, algorithmic modeling, and capital’s sub- sumption of life in its entirety have become one and the same process. Whether we are talking about bodies, nerves, matter, blood, cellular tissues, brain, or energy, the project remains the same: on the one hand, the con- version of every substance into quantities, the preemptive calculation of po- tentialities, risks, and hazards with a view to their financialization and, on the other hand, the conversion of organic and vital ends into technical means. The aim is thus to loosen everything from an underlying substratum, cor- poreality, or materiality; it is to artificialize everything, and to automate and autonomize it. It is a question of submitting everything to effects of quantification and abstraction. Digitalization is nothing else than this cap- ture of forces and potentialities and their annexation by the language of a machine-brain transformed into an autonomous and automated system.
January 29, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Absolute furniture mayhem in the studio this morning after picking up an old plan chest from a deceased relative’s house over Christmas.
Wide angle shot of a small studio space cluttered with shelving, desks, dismantled furniture, screens and prints hanging on the walls.
January 8, 2026 at 12:22 PM