Bücher der Reihe Post-Media Lab

This book documents the f irst life-cycle of the Post-MediaLab (2011-2014). Taking up Fèlix Guattari's challenge, the Lab aimedto combine social and media practices into collective assemblagesof enunciation in order to confront social monoformity. Here wedraw together some key essays, images and art projects by the Lab'sparticipants, as well as a close documentation of its associated events,talks, and exhibitions, to create a vivid portrayal of post-media practicetoday.With contributions by: Clemens Apprich, Josephine BerrySlater, Micha Cárdenas, Sean Dockray, Mina Emad, BogdanDragos & Inigo Wilkins, Fabien Giraud, Adnan Hadzi & JamesStevens, Martin Howse & Jonathan Kemp, irational.org,Anthony Iles, Oliver Lerone Schultz, Gordan Savi¿i¿, MoritzQueisner, Rózsa Zita FarkasPart of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute &the Post-Media Lab

This book is a psychoarchaeological reconstruction of an art collective, irational.org, who existed in the times of the internet. The material reconstituted here was derived, after irational.org's disappearance, from multiple requests for data from their archived art server. These requests, made by post, were submitted by the author, V.M., to an unidentified and unreliable Data Auditor, using a Secure Access Protocol. It is rumoured that access to the archive was securitised by irational.org because it contains highly sensitive, possibly incriminating, data. The psychoarchaeologist's reconstruction reveals a cultural organisation that satirised, resisted and internalised the libertarian yet bureaucratic tendencies of a surveillance society, and its obsession with data privacy, security and property. The trail runs cold as the group made its retreat into the woods from a world that was disintegrating.Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute & the Post-Media Lab

Felix Stalder's extended essay, Digital Solidarity, takes it's point of departure from the waves of new forms of networked political organisation which have met the onset of the global economic crisis of 2008. Following Karl Marx, Stalder lays out how in the current period there are emergent contradictions between applied innovation and technical progress and the economic institutions whch organise or restrain this progress. The contradictions between forces of production and relations of production are placed in a context in which we have left McLuhan's Gutenburg Galaxy behind for good and the struggles over where we will arrive are only just beginnning.A co-publication of Mute Books & the Post-Media Lab