Tag Archives: Bonita Ely

Can the Plastic Monster Listen?

30th June 2021UncategorizedBonita Ely, Chris Jordan, documenta 14, Franz Kafka, Gene Ray, Heather Davis, Like Wind on Rushes, Paul B. Preciado, South as a State of Mind, Whisper into a HoleMinus Plato

Paul B. Preciado writes in his lecture/report to a psychoanalytic Academy Can the Monster Speak?: Today, once monstrous bodies produced by the patriarchal-colonial regime of sex, gender and sexual difference speak for themselves and produce knowledge about themselves. Echoing Kafka’s Red Peter in his short story ‘A Report to an Academy’, Preciado describes how through […]

Just Dropbox my Body

18th February 2021UncategorizedAboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, Andreas Angelidakis, Angelo Plessas, asinnajaq, Be Oakley, Biennale de L'Image en Mouvement 2018, Black Vernacular, Bonita Ely, Candice Hopkins, Dan-El Padilla Peralta, David Wojnarowicz, Dayna Danger, Demos, Demos Bar, documenta 14, Elysia Crampton, Facebook, Gender Fail, Gwangju Biennale, Internet Aesthetics, Keith Obadike, Koffler Digital, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Like Wind on Rushes, Martine Syms, Mass Eeffect, Mata Aho Collective, Meriem Bennani, Miltos Manetas, My Blackness for Sale, My Body Does not exist, Parler Clair Radio, Paul B. Preciado, Paul Soulellis, Portrait of an Exhibition on Firefox, post documenta, Saturation, Second Life, Skawennati, STTLMNT, Taniwha Tales, The 7701 Files, The Gilded Gaze, The Parliament of Bodies, The Sound of Screens Imploding, There are Times and Places, Toronto Biennial, urgentcraft, Whisper into a HoleMinus Plato

Taking public matters into your own stained cybergloves again? – suppose the bearded sage avatar braying (to the tune of REM’s Everybody Hurts (sometimes/So hold on, hold on), whom the social media managers of Agorapulse canceled. With what qualifications? Do tell us the answer, great Trump fluffer Joshy, share your insight, discharged, no doubt, as […]

Empty Daybook – Bonita Ely on 26 September 2054

17th April 2019UncategorizedBonita Ely, Empty DaybookMinus Plato

Today we celebrate the 2450th birthday of Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching. In 2016 the book inspired the use of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) to genetically modify the “plastic-munching microbe,” Ideonella sakaiensis, isolating enzymes responsible for dissolving polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Now we depend on these scientifically engineered creatures to […]