Thank you to the wonderful darlings who joined us last week, on a clear mid-Autumn Monday evening, for the celebration and launch of DiSCo Journal, Issue 3 🪩💗
Thank you to @anand.s.b for the mindful screening of slow cinema, to @silviabombardini for a reading of The Shoplifter’s Monologue, which explored speculative histories of subversive economics, and to @trampbunny.tv for a fantastic live coding music set that made us wish we had brought dancing shoes.
You can view the screened film titled Train to Soul Junction or read more about tactics for subverting/surviving our economic realities at discojournal.com. See you there 👁️🫦👁️
🪩 WE’RE SO BACK 🪩
It’s been a minute, but we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to realise a multimedia variety show of a new issue. Introducing DiSCo Journal Issue 3:
𝓔𝓼𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓷 𝓼𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓮𝔁𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷
𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓰𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓪𝓬𝓬𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓶
To celebrate the launch, we’re hosting a party and you’re cordially invited 💌
📍King’s X, London
🗓️13 Monday 2025
🕰️6:30PM - 9:00PM
🎟️Link in bio to RSVP
With performances, screenings, and readings designed to expand your mind and stave off boredom ✨
See you there?
Issue 3 features contributions from Assad Bokhari, @silviabombardini , Anand Subhash Borse, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, @wfumihsu , and Sandy Di Yu
Managing editors April Wei-West and @hejsandy
Journal website designed by the incomparable @andreaefebresm
Invite graphics by wonderful @jennyjihh
With generous support from CHASE AHRC
Thank you for attending the launch party for SYSTEMS/HACKING! We hope you had a blast over stimulating discussions and Elisabeth Gunawan’s UNFORGETTABLE GIRL performance. The new issue is online and free to access @ DISCOJOURNAL.COM! 🪓🚀🪩
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Our cool animated background made by @andreaefebresm . Each image is a visual response to each of ten HACKING articles in our latest issue. Read them all at DISCOJOURNAL.COM. 🎱⛓️👁️
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Could we situate hacking as an alternative knowledge, a fraying edge on the broad expanse of epistemology? Could we reclaim hacking as a way to dismantle hegemonic ills to reconstitute a system that runs autonomously, fueled by something other than extractivist practices of devastation? Read the Editors’ Intro to SYSTEMS/HACKING, and let the hacking commence. *LINK IN BIO*
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Did you hear? SYSTEMS/HACKING IS *LIVE*! Read at discojournal.com now!!
Also, we’re having a launch on 23rd May, 7p at Reference Point in central London. RSVP for free - link in bio.
Disclaimer: no cats were neutered in the planning of the issue launch.
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SYSTEMS/HACKING is officially live!! Read, view, interact and experience the ten weirdly incredible hacks to systems presented by artists, writers, and researchers. 🪩🔥 VISIT DISCOJOURNAL.COM
Did we mention that we also have an artist intervention on the new homepage? Heath Bunting offers visual interventions mimicking spam ads. And all the love goes to @andreaefebresm for realising the new design! 💕
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Our systems are broken. Let’s hack them to pieces. Celebrate the launch of the second issue of DiSCo Journal with us @referencepoint180 *Free RSVP link in bio* 🪩⛓️🪓
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Peter Conklin proposes PetitTube as a hacking of algorithmic recommendation systems in video streaming platforms, like YouTube, in his cahier of thoughts on hacking probabilities, rationality, and culture. ⛓️🎲
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Influenced by video artist Sylvia Kolbowski, @sam.moore94 ‘Untitled (A glitch in the matrix)’ takes imagery and moments of body horror in film and brings them into conversation with writing on trans-ness. 🎞️🧟
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DiSCo’s own @tanvikanchan writes about the potential of queerness and glitch feminism in enacting illegibility to subvert digital systems through a weaving of creative nonfiction and academic reflection. ✨⚡️
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@chipomapondera_ gives us a VR healing space revolving around Shona traditional
values and modalities through an emphasis on community-building, disavowing the instant gratification of VR. 👾🎮
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