Bulletin — External Intercepts

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Fragments intercepted from independent journals, archives and newsletters: theory, cybernetics and synthetic culture monitored from outside.

[2026-08-18 // FREQ_01] [AI/LATENT-SPACE]
Latent Spaces: AI, Art, and the Archive
SOURCE: October (MIT Press) — saggio di Antonio Somaini

"The model's hallucination is not a calculation error — it is the geology of the new latent space, deciding what can be seen, said, and known of the past."

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[2026-08-11 // FREQ_02] [CYBER-CULTURE]
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
SOURCE: Ribbonfarm — Venkatesh Rao

"Five years after the original theory, eleven authors map the collective retreat into newsletters, Slack channels and non-indexed spaces: the public web as hostile territory to flee from."

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[2026-08-02 // FREQ_03] [XENO-THEORY]
Finance at the Speed of Hyperstition
SOURCE: IndyPen CryptoMedia

"Crypto hyperfinancialization as pure hyperstition: collective confidence, repeated and projected into the future, becomes the very value it claims only to measure."

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[2026-07-25 // FREQ_04] [SONIC-FICTION]
Steve Goodman's "Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear"
SOURCE: Rhizome

"Infrasound as weapon and as aesthetic: frequencies below the threshold of hearing acting directly on the body, before they ever become "music.""

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[2026-07-14 // FREQ_05] [SYNTHETIC-MATTER]
A New Philosophy of Planetary Computation
SOURCE: NOEMA — Benjamin Bratton

"sensors — rewriting planetary geopolitics as an infrastructure of extraction and calculation."

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[2026-06-28 // FREQ_06] [CYBER-CULTURE]
Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web
SOURCE: Fortune

"In June 2026 humans became a minority on the web they built: bots now generate over 57% of page requests."

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[2026-06-20 // FREQ_07] [AI/LATENT-SPACE]
Do Androids Dream of AGI?
SOURCE: e-flux Journal #164 — Vinícius Portella

"Behind the techno-utopian dream of the Singularity hides a disguised theology: AGI as the new god to turn to, for those who stopped believing in the old one."

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[2026-06-12 // FREQ_08] [XENO-THEORY]
The Algorithm and the Antichrist: Political Theology at the Sunset of Silicon Valley
SOURCE: e-flux Journal #164 — Giorgio Cesarale e Matteo Pasquinelli

"Behind the language of digital supremacy in the AI race hides the privatization of state surveillance, disguised as technological destiny."

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[2026-06-04 // FREQ_09] [SONIC-FICTION]
Further Considerations of Afrofuturism
SOURCE: CR: The New Centennial Review — Kodwo Eshun

"Future African archaeologists dig through the ruins of our present: science fiction was never about the future, but the retroactive engineering of what we call "now.""

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[2026-06-04 // FREQ_10] [SYNTHETIC-MATTER]
Against the Clock: Remote Work, Stolen Sleep, and the Limits of Extraction
SOURCE: e-flux Journal #164 — Elvia Wilk

"Remote work dislocates not just space but time itself: sleep becomes the last resource not yet fully colonized by value extraction."

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