SWINGING MY WAY TO “CHOICE”
It’s past 11pm and I’m standing in the cold outside one of the most unremarkable buildings in West Berlin: Zwanglos. Next to me is…
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WORK WEEK SAMPLE #2
As part of COVEN BERLIN’s current issue LABOR OR LABOR, we asked freelancers and artists to share their weekly working routine with us following Louise Trueheart’s work week…
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SUCH A FLOOD
* 4 CARD SPREAD Okay, so you’ve only got €4 left in your bank account and it’s annoying that they won’t let you take…
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WORK WEEK SAMPLE
A few weeks ago I set out to write about being a freelancer for COVEN’s current theme LABOR OR LABOR. I wanted to share a sample of my…
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SUN IN THE OFFICE
My hands have become a bit autonomous, and it’s a huge relief. I love that they now pick up dishes on their own, turn…
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BITTER VICTORIES
The second time I went out socially after moving to London, a stranger forced me under pressure to out myself to the group we…
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR LIBERATION (PART III): CYBORG MONSTERS ARE THE REAL KNIGHTS IN SHINING ARMOUR
Donna Haraway describes the cyborg in “The Cyborg Manifesto” as a biotic system in a post-gender world, and a creature of social reality and…
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EVERYDAY ROBOTS
“We are everyday robots on our phones In the process of getting home Looking like standing stones Out there on our own” (Damon…
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Technologies for liberation (Part II): Denying masculinity and becoming Grace Kelly, or how to avoid femininity by becoming Clint
Marcela Negro de Leserre, in her essay “El deseo es el deseo del otro. La influencia de Hegel en Lacan”[1], explains a revolutionary idea:…
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Technologies for liberation: Pepper, Dorian, Octavia, the many Grace Kellys and the Cyborg Monsters (Part I)
I saw “Paris is Burning”, a documentary by Jennie Livingston, and watched the part when participants competed for the title of “FQ Realness” over…
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