Editor: Mirna Belina
Copy Editors: Arie Altena, Jason Coburn
Design: The Rodina
212 pp., 500 g, 17 x 24 cm, English, September 2017
ISBN: 9789082321630

Digging deep into the Sonic Acts 2017 programme, this book explores what it means to be human, to be part of a world that is an ever-changing network and invites us to speculate about the strange and anxious state of being. Among the contributions, Jennifer Gabrys is interviewed about sensor technologies, Louis Henderson presents his cinematic practice, which focuses on the critical reading of colonial histories, and Ytasha Womack discusses how Afrofuturism facilitates different ways of navigating the world. Neworked algorithms, big data, and habituation on the internet are the focus of a conversation with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Eyal Weizman vigorously explains the political interventions of Forensic Architecture, and Jamon Van Den Hoek examines how satellite images provide and create accounts of geopolitical conflicts.

Contents

Introduction – Sonic Acts

Anticapitalism, Postcapitalism, Decapitalism – Nina Power

Jennifer Gabrys: Everything is Experiencing – Interview by Arie Altena

Animism is the Only Sensible Version of Materialism – Louis Henderson

★ Ytasha Womack: Afrofuturism - Other Ways of Navigating the World that Facilitate Resilience – Interview by Arie Altena

An Ontology of Every Thing on the Face of the Earth – Daniel Rourke

The Cracks Of The Contemporary – The Wound – Rick Dolphijn

Ophiux – Joey Holder

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: Characters In A Drama Called Big Data – Interview by Rosa Menkman

★ Eyal Weizman: We Are All In The Mud – Interview by Lucas van der Velden

By Any Lens Necessary - A Satellite Image Account of Conflict – Jamon Van Den Hoek

Forever Noon On A Cloudless Day – Ingrid Burrington

Metahaven: The Making Of Metahaven – Interview by Juha Van ‘t Zelfde

Impressions from the 2017 Sonic Acts Festival: The Noise of Being – Sonic Acts

Human Fossils – The Rodina