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"Post-digital [...] sucks [...]" with Florian Cramer and Paul Feigelfeld

Between techno-positivism, culture-pessimism and post-apocalyptic, "Post-digital [...] sucks [...]", cut off its original context, emerges out of a desire to...

“Postdigital sucks... but is useful !” - Florian Cramer A reference lecture about the definition and the utilisation of Postdigital word, from the Art historian and Theoretician Florian Cramer.

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... as it really fucks around with all the already commodified post-internet Dri-FIT coconut water nano-aesthetics. For me it’s really a lot of fun to work on this project.

Paul Feigelfeld 

Fleigfeld was interviewed by 032c in his role as guest curator of the Museum of Post Digital Cultures and quoted Zuzanna Ratajczyk’s #PURENESS meditation podcast as a humorous comment on ominpresent hype-themes.

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instead of avant-garde, be a deserter.

Jussi Parikka via

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Paul Fei­gel­feld: Crypto & hacking or Cryptologocentrism

2014 Post Digital Cultures symposium speaker, Paul Fei­gel­fel (*1979, Vienna) stu­di­ed Cul­tu­ral Stu­dies and Com­pu­ter Sci­ence at Hum­boldt Uni­ver­si­ty in Ber­lin. Bet­ween 2004 and 2011, he worked for Ger­man me­dia theo­rist Fried­rich Kitt­ler and is cur­rent­ly part of the team of edi­tors of his com­ple­te works as well as head of a think tank which aims to crea­te a di­gi­tal ar­chi­ve of Kitt­ler’s texts and pro­gram sour­ce code. From 2010 to 2013, he was a teacher and re­se­ar­cher at Hum­boldt’s In­sti­tu­te for Me­dia Theo­ries with Prof. Dr. Wolf­gang Ernst, whe­re he also or­ga­ni­zed and ran on­go­ing ex­tra­cur­ri­cu­lar in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry lec­tu­re and work­shop se­ries like "Per­ga­mon Par­ley" and "Kitt­ler Flus­ser Me­dia­ti­ons". Paul Feigelfeld is also currently the academic coordinator of the Digital Cultures Research Lab at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

He is cur­rent­ly working in his PhD the­sis tit­led "The Gre­at Loop For­ward. In­com­ple­ten­ess and Me­dia bet­ween Chi­na and the West" and has been a vi­sit­ing fel­low at the Chi­ne­se Aca­de­my of Sci­en­ces' In­sti­tu­te for the His­to­ry of Na­tu­ral Sci­ence in Bei­jing in ear­ly 2013.

Be­si­des his aca­de­mic work, he works as a wri­ter, trans­la­tor and edi­tor in the fiel­ds of art, ar­chi­tec­tu­re, de­sign, theo­ry, and phi­lo­so­phy, with pu­bli­ca­ti­ons like 032c, frie­ze, Tex­te zur Kunst, No­vem­bre, PIN-UP, or Mo­dern Weekly Chi­na, and pu­blis­hers like Mer­ve, Stern­berg Press, and Spec­tor Books. Ar­tis­tic pro­jects in­clu­de lec­tu­re per­for­man­ces with Olaf Ni­co­lai, ar­tis­tic re­se­arch in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Spec­tor Books, and an ex­hi­bi­ti­on on “Sound, Vi­si­on, and Time” at Hum­boldt Uni­ver­si­ty in 2013. He is also a cont­ri­bu­tor to the collec­tive en­dea­vours of #60pages. And in ear­ly 2014, he was the first guest cu­ra­tor of the Museum of Post Digital Cultures.

About the conference

Cryptology or the concept of code is at the very core of information technology and occidental scientific culture. It defines the nature of post digital cultures, not only in terms of encrypted secure communication and the discussion around surveillance and intelligence services today, but as a media technological a priori, a ‘conditio sine qua non’ for our technological condition. Paul Feigelfeld looks at the significant role that cryptology plays in the media history of knowledge, and explains the key concepts in a historical overview, from the early days of writing to technologies like public key cryptography and TOR, in an attempt to address their influence on epistemological as well as artistic theory and practice.

The main focus is directed towards questions and perspectives of authenticity and the individual in an outlook on the near future, in political, social, and artistic spheres, where things like genetic fingerprints and Bitcoin block chains will very likely become new means of identification and authentication—from passports and bank accounts, online identities, digital labour and communication—to defining the authenticity of a work of art, digital rights management and cloud storage, as well as the right to be forgotten, freedom of information, and anonymity. 

Sources: http://cdc.leuphana.com

Image: 032C

> read also 60pages curated by Paul! 6pages is publishing longform journalism in a digital way, exploring the present with a collective blog (…) based in Berlin and Zurich.

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University lecturer PAUL FEIGELFELD on the peak of the Mittagskogel mountain (3200 m) in Tirol, Austria, August 13th, 2011