"One day you will be called on to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it. You have to be ready. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters? You have to stay “in shape” so that when the big day comes you will be ready. What you need is “anarchist calisthenics.” Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you’ll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you’ll be ready." James C. Scott, Two cheers for Anarchism
🤖 Linggan Divinations (Weird Economies / Cosmo-Financial Study Group) brings together fresh perspectives on a topic that refuses to leave anyone alone right now — Artificial Intelligence.
This reading group explores a selection of texts from “Machine Decision is not Final” (Urbanomic), a collection on AI in China, in order to unpack tensions between Western and Chinese conceptions of this technology — from earlier cybernetic imaginaries to contemporary speculations and problematics. A space for collective sense-making, the programme offers a counterpoint to the current planetary-scale hype and reductive narratives surrounding AI.
📍 In person: Well Read Bookstore @areyouwellread , Lisbon
📅 2 & 15 April
🕖 19h (WEST/Lisbon time)
💻 Online participation via jit.si (link TBA)
Readings will be shared in advance via Notion (RSVP required). Participants are encouraged to obtain their own copy of the book where possible.
🤝 Organised by Erik Bordeleau (IFILNOVA), Laura Lotti, and Pearl Wong
Registrations here: /en5ec4j6
💻 Lift & Drag: 'Exocapitalism' Reading Group
💫 What happens when financial abstractions achieve escape velocity from terrestrial constraints? When markets begin to orbit beyond the gravitational pull of human economies?
🎯 Join the reading group for a two-session exploration of "Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits", by Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo (Becoming Press, 2025), where they’ll trace the aerodynamics of capital as it encounters the twin forces of lift — the speculative ascent that carries financial flows beyond earthbound reference points — and drag — not so much resistance to lift but rather the symptoms of a system where humans perform increasingly hollow versions of classical economic relations.
1st session 📆 16 October: Lift (pp. 1-87) · 18:00–19:30 (UTC+1)
📍Well Read Bookstore, with online transmission
@areyouwellread
🤝 Hosted by IFILNOVA / NOVA University Lisbon + the Cosmo-financial Study Group @weird_economies
Organised by Erik Bordeleau and Laura Lotti
@ritornell0@lottiland
More info on the IFILNOVA website 👉 link in bio
What happens when financial abstractions achieve escape velocity from terrestrial constraints? When markets begin to orbit beyond the gravitational pull of human economies?
Join us for a two-session exploration of Exocapitalism (Becoming Press, 2025), where we’ll trace the aerodynamics of capital as it encounters the twin forces of lift – the speculative ascent that carries financial flows beyond earthbound reference points – and drag – not so much resistance to lift but rather the symptoms of a system where humans perform increasingly hollow versions of classical economic relations.
The cosmofinancial framework developed by Poliks and Trillo shows how economic abstractions don’t simply extract value from terrestrial conditions but actively participate in worlding practices, generating, or folding, as the authors define it, new planes of speculation and relation. The book performs, in the words of Tiziana Terranova, a “cosmological, retroactive take on the continuity of capital as an inhuman algorithm modeled on finance and software”.
Find more details including time and the Zoom link on our website
Hosted by Lisbon NOVA University – IFILNOVA and the Cosmo-financial Study Group
Organized by Erik Bordeleau and Laura Lotti
@ritornell0@lottiland
Cover & Graphic Design from original book by Palais Sinclaire
Other Internet 2018—2024
IRL @ Trust - Tuesday 30 Sept. at 6PM
Kluckstraße 25, 10785 Berlin
Laura Lotti, Toby Shorin, and Sam Hart of Other Internet invite you to the launch of their book: Other Internet 2018–2024
Doors open at 6pm, with a collective reading of excerpts from the book from 6:30-7pm
Free event with catered snacks + wine to celebrate with our community in Berlin, who have always been an instrumental part of the Other Internet story
Publication edited by @guymyguy and designed by @451_232
Other Internet are great at making sense of new online trends and behaviours. They’re especially tuned in to emerging models like Web3, and their work explores how digital systems shape us – and how we can shape them back.
To celebrate the launch of their new book - Other Internet 2018–2024, we hosted a collaborative workshop all about how our relationship with internet culture is changing.
Check out our latest SEED on Protein.XYZ for highlights from the session and a deeper dive into their ideas.
SEED | #8309
DATE | 10.04.25
PLANTED BY | PROTEIN
CONTRIBUTORS | OTHER INTERNET
