HOUSE OF THOUGHT

AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE OF THINKING. CIRCA 2006.

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What does this mean? . . . #staylucid #blackartist #blackwriter #africanartist #blacklivesmatter #blacksquare https://www.instagram.com/p/CA72LNFlPi_/?igshid=678ijim5jfob

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I have contributed a piece to Tools for Extinction, a new anthology, now available to order from @lollieditions . Featuring: Enrique Vila-Matas Olivia Sudjic Jon Fosse Inger Wold Lund Vi Khi Nao Patrícia Portela Lucie Elven Mara Coson Christina Hesselholdt Jean-Baptiste del Amo Naja Marie Aidt Michael Salu Joanna Walsh Jakuta Alikavazovic Anna Zett Emilio Fraia Frode Grytten Olga Ravn . Tools for Extinction brings together 18 International writers in a collective response to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today. . Meditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time. What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease – or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species’ trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light? . The anthology takes its name from Steven Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology and alternative education. By giving “access to tools”, a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined. . . #contemporaryfiction #COVID19 #bookstagram #toolsforextinction https://www.instagram.com/p/CACoaHnFQug/?igshid=i0fbchql4mq5

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#contemporaryart #machinelearning #aiart #blackartist #africanartist #futurethinking #futureart #abstractart #blackdesigners #wherearetheblackdesigners (at The Earth's Core) https://www.instagram.com/p/CArz_qxl-Hv/?igshid=2gxqodvvztco

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House of Thought. . #contemporaryart #machinelearning #aiart #blackartist #africanartist #futurethinking #futureart #abstractart #blackdesigners #wherearetheblackdesigners (at The Earth's Core) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAp3zHVFu1-/?igshid=mz1woh0qixvr

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The Dark Factory (Fiction)

If an automated factory producing self-driving cars to automate the cognitive experience of driving, were to speak, what would it say and how might it sound? Say it needed a way to communicate its output, might it stoop as low to using language. Might it examine and quickly transcend our meagre musings on being, consciousness and even aura. I mused on this for a piece of short fiction in the latest issue of @Garagisme the contemporary automotive journal. The theme of the issue: Design roduces desires. Available to pre-order now. Cover Art by Marion Maimon: Fruit of the Earth

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Ghosts. 2018.

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Lost. 2016.

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Ice Cream Truck 2018.

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Transcript from my 5x15 Talk

If you’re interested, I include here a transcript of the talk I gave last May, proposing the idea that language as we know it is over, and we need to think about what language means to us going forward.

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Some writing on Medium

If you’re interested in reading some of my articles and essays, do check out my Medium account. I’ll be adding more there from time to time. Here’s a link to an essay on Gaming and Society.

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Alphabet (Inger Christensen) - feat. Rinne, Salu & Domeneck

Lea Taragona’s sound piece from our reading of Inger Christensen’s Alphabet. Apt meditation on existence right now.

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On gaming and capitalism

Click through to read a PDF of a piece I wrote for Sleek Magazine on gaming, capitalism and the self.

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The Swarm, Language as a Fiction

I wrote this piece a year ago, but worth sharing again as the swarm is growing, consolidating, driving a silent coup. Deepfake 2020.

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Thoughts on language and perception

“Is there a case to suggest that language as we know it doesn’t actually belong to us anymore?”5x15Amsterdam third speaker https://soundcloud.com/user-116909374-584824153/5x15-michael-salu-languages-and-technology Michael Salu is a writer, artist and critic, whose work and ideas are executed through a multidisciplinary practice. His writing, art and talks have focused on where the evolving semantics of technology, language and identity meet.

His written work has appeared in a number of literary journals, anthologies and art publications including Freeman’s Journal and Catapult. He has exhibited and screened art projects internationally and is the owner and creative director of S.A.L.U, a multidisciplinary creative consultancy collaborating with clients around the globe.

Recorded at 5x15 in Amsterdam in March 2019.

5x15 Amsterdam brings together 5 outstanding speakers, who each have 15 minutes to share their lives, dreams and passions.

Read more about 5x15 Amsterdam here - 5x15amsterdam.com

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A spread from my story entitled ‘The Forsaken’ in the latest @archivio_mag with photography of a mawkish Disneyland from the photo collection of @ordinarylight In The Forsaken, Courtney returns to Disneyland fifty years later due to rumours about a running water supply when water has become scare. She travels on swollen, tired legs reminiscing about her first love, a love she acquired in the mechanical, Conrad-esque Jungle of Disneyland. #archiviomagazine #hiddenmemories #americana #disneyland #magazines #baudrillard #myths #climatechange #memory #shortstory #vernacularphotography #thefuture #dystopia #amwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwrc4NKFTUb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bt99tifxgox9

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The unconscious as the now seeable? . From cybernetics and ghosts, Calvino. . We edited my #5x15 talk today on the failure of language as its used today for semantic representation. This 1962 Calvino essay was referenced. Will share the audio shortly, for y’all interested 🤖 . https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwu2lq8FnrL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d5iby3hnbrm7

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Lazarus

A snippet from my text ‘Lazarus’ during our evening of ‘Body Texts’. I closed with thoughts on claustrophobia, within the body, within space, within the hegemonic realities both physical and digital. Lazarus is the story of an unnamed person that wakes up in a box in a morgue after a lynching and ruminates what it means to be alive, with no memory or comprehension of pain or the ravages of history.