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YouTube video by Autotelic Foundation Technocapital Utopias and their Reactionary Shadows – Talk by Wassim Alsindi

a talk from last spring's Vienna Digital Culture Festival just went online, on technocapital utopias and their reactionary shadows

youtu.be/yQX-7LSqLaY?...

Open Swords Software essay preview: Part II Published in Aksioma's "Are You A Software Update?" reader

two-part preview of my Open Swords Software essay, soon published by Aksioma, are up on the 'sztac.

Here's a bit about pirates: wassimalsindi.substack.com/i/183777694/...

the year, in review:

I've said it before, and I'll say it again

and, lastly, never forget where you came from (@0xsalon.bsky.social)

Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos Shall I compare thee to a voltage spike? Thou art more transient, though less liable to surge.

more to follow, possibly :)

also, a reminder that some 'buffer overflows' from this writing session were earlier included on my 'sztac:

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/preview-lo...

The publisher has kindly allowed me to reproduce three of the eight Love Language Models vignettes on my 'sztac, which you can read here:

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/love-langu...

For now, the best place to pick up a print copy is directly from the publisher:

posthumanpress.com/products/ent...

Just published: I have a collection of speculative fiction vignettes entitled "Love Language Models" in the first publication by Posthuman Press. Some clippings in this and following tweets.

I would pay any amount of money to watch "tech oligarchs in the Cairo airport terminal 1 passport queue"

thank you!

if you're interested, sapphirepunk is also included in an upcoming text on Open Swords Software, published by @aksiomaorg.bsky.social :
aksioma.org/are-you-a-so...

and in this text by co-author Sasha Shilina :
substack.com/home/post/p-...

thank you!

if you're interested, sapphirepunk is also included in an upcoming text on Open Swords Software, published by @aksiomaorg.bsky.social :
aksioma.org/are-you-a-so...

and in this text by co-author Sasha Shilina :
substack.com/home/post/p-...

YouTube video by Wassim Alsindi Seizing the Means of Seduction, Nov'25 at Cypherpunk Congress II Buenos Aires

Video of "Seizing the Means of Seduction" from the recent Cypherpunk Congress in Buenos Aires.

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

I contributed "Open Swords Software" which charts the inversion of the technolibertarian dream into systems of enclosure.

a very simple sapphirepunk website:

sapphirepunk.com

open swords software

the Kittlerian Jihad

Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance III Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?

just dropped on the 'sztac

Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance Pt. 3

free to read:
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

they asked me to bring props to the event today

juxtaposing rw utopianism (aka golf futurism) with the final writings of Mark Fisher for the "Experiments in Utopia" event on Sunday. I don't usually talk about my Crusading in public* but they did specifically request I bring the chain mail. You should come if you're in London.

we do a lil' in conversation with Inte Gloerich this evening. from 18h30 tonight at Au JUS in Brussels

Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance II Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?

just dropped, on the sztac and free to read:

"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Part Two"

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

Radical Gaming A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

as part of my current "speculative economies" residency at au JUS in Brussels, @maxhaiven.bsky.social will be visiting 28/29 Apr. We'll be launching his new anticapitalist boardgame and going into conversation on gamification, fascism, and the endless Crusade.

Read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

just dropped on the 'sztac, free to read:

"Inside the Dark Ages of Blockchain Governance, Pt 1"
wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Far from transcending the flaws of human governance, blockchain networks have mirrored the very structures they sought to dismantle. Have we learned anything?

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...

Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos Shall I compare thee to a voltage spike? Thou art more transient, though less liable to surge.

now up on the 'sztac, free to read

Speculative Fiction Buffer Overflow: LoLaMos

wassimalsindi.substack.com/p/preview-lo...

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

cheerful stuff tbh