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Very pleased to write for Tribune about games and the radical imagination in a moment of gamified capitalism (and its fascist nightmares), w. words about Billionaires & Guillotines, the game I've made with @plutopress.bsky.social which you can help us crowdfund now.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

More Than Human Togetherness | Barbican Join us at this Experiments in Utopia talk to consider how contemporary technology can catalyse collectivity and hack the system of individuality.

"Experiments in Utopia", Sunday 27th April at @barbicancentre.bsky.social in London

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

just dropped on the 'sztac:

Scenes from a Memorypool III, the last set of flashfictions orbiting @0xsalon.bsky.social 2022 theatrical project The Black Hole of Money. A few previews attached.

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

save the date: Sunday 27th April for a very special event on "Utopian Experiments" at the Barbican in London

just dropped, on the 'sztac:

Scenes from a Memorypool II: flashfictions orbiting the @0xsalon.bsky.social 2022 theatre production The Black Hole of Money

Saturday 5th April in Istanbul

CAMELOT has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with @0xsalon.bsky.social, who will break ground next year. It's a piece of recently cleared, prime real estate on the Mediterranean. Our early adopters' TEMPLAR KNIGHT package will be purchaseable soon.

Signed,
Wassim Z. Alsindi
King/CEO of CAMELOT

Succinct noetic poetics "No Unhallow'd Fire" published yesterday, on the vernal equinox in Drops & Buds journal.

Read the text and @0xsalon.bsky.social backstory here: wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/no-unhallo...

a black hole never forgets

0xsalon.pubpub.org/theblackhole...

next up on the 'sztac: my previously-unreleased flashfics around the world the @0xsalon.bsky.social salon writers’ club created for our 2022 theatre production ‘The Black Hole of Money’. Eventually destined for a book collating my literary experiments in poetry, scripture, and narrative fiction.

ṣifrpunk, sufferpunk, sapphirepunk

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/sifrpunk-m...

Provocative talk on "sifpunk" culture, blockchains, cypherpunk and onchain desires by @wassimulacrum.bsky.social x @0xsalon.bsky.social

ṣifrpunk (صفربانك): Much Ado About Nothing?

Why, despite the desires within its community, Ethereum will probably never achieve its 'Cypherpunk' aspirations. But here's something it can be instead.

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/sifrpunk-m...

The Indifference Engine: The Immaculate Misconception of Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work Can it still be argued that Bitcoin is less than the sum of its parts?

now up on the 'sztac

The Indifference Engine: a book that never was about the externalities of proof-of-work

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/the-indiff...

next event: Fau0x Salon counter-archival explorations at AVTO in Istanbul, early April

Axiomatic Realism I: on the Fence of the Pure Image Forthcoming in Ars Scientia journal

the first part of Axiomatic Realism is now unlocked. Have a read if you like:

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/axiomatic-...

Axiomatic Realism V: (In)conclusions Forthcoming in Ars Scientia journal

Now up on the 'sztac, the final part of "Axiomatic Realism". next few posts will be some curios on "The Indifference Engine" and "Sifrpunk" and then its time for the main event.

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/axiomatic-...

Axiomatic Realism I: on the Fence of the Pure Image Forthcoming in Ars Scientia journal

first real post on the 'sztac: Axiomatic Realism I: on the Fence of the Pure Image.

It's the first of several instalments of my WIP autoepistemological take on axioms, to be published by Ars Scientia later this year. Next part goes up soon.

open.substack.com/pub/wassimal...

FAU0X SALON - discursive RPG card deck · 0xSalon Discursive RPG card deck inspired by post-structuralist philosophy and 0xSalon lore. The game acts as a ludic-pedagogic mechanism to initiate and steer post-disciplinary conversations from a variety o...

more on the FAU0X SALON project here:

0xsalon.pubpub.org/fau0xsalon

YouTube video by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY Wasim Z. Alsindi from 0xSalon - Card Game & Discussion: FAU0X SALON

in a fortnight, we'll use the FAU0X SALON card deck to facilitate a critical conversation at the 'Something Else Symposium' in Cairo, hosted by Darb 1718. If you're in town and want to join, let us know!

As a preview, here's our session at Bangkok CITYCITY Gallery:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2b9...

2024 Year In Review A janitorial perspective at the nadir of the year.

just published, and better late than never we guess:

our 2024 year-in-review article
0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/2024year...

YouTube video by Web3Privacy Now Sifrpunk by Wassim Alsindi [0xSalon] x Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress highlights: Wassim Alsindi from 0xsalon provocation through the origins of acceleration, etymology of "cypherpunk", and sufferpunks.

watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lguu...

event: congress.web3privacy.info

24/2/24 Cybernetic Serendipity symposium @ ICA London · 0xSalon An event commemorating the seminal 1968 ICA exhibition of the same name

next event: 24/02 Cybernetic Serendipity symposium @ ICA London

0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/cybernet...

01/02/24 The Immaculate Misconception @ panke.galleryOriginally streamed live via Twitch///The Immaculate Misconception – an interactive journey through a hu... 01/02/24 The Immaculate Misconception Performance at panke.gallery

did you miss our 4th birthday party, anon?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3_a...

it comes as no surprise to us, that the CIA is monitoring our 2022 interactive web-based storytelling work THE IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION via their Singaporean node
To New Entities: https://tonewentities.com

up-only publishing

thank you :)

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0x Salon is participating in the first Gitcoin 'Community & Education' fundraising round over the next fortnight! We would very much appreciate likes & shares amongst your friends & colleagues, or a small donation if you are in a position to do so. Thank you! https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/kkfasnov/

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