Simulacrum magazine jrg #34.2 Motherboard

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Simulacrum magazine jrg #34.2 Motherboard

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Simulacrum is a quarterly thematic magazine that reflects on arts and culture, and serves as a high-quality publication platform for students and experts from the field. The subjects are always approached from different disciplines which relate to arts and culture, and placed in both historical and contemporary perspective.
The printed circuit board (PCB) is the backbone of the general-purpose computer. It is where the material meets the mythic, the impersonal meets the intimate, the technical meets the feminine. This is the sphere of the motherboard: the world-rewiring circuitry-scale architecture, and the beating heart of the computer, phone, or laptop that you are reading this on.
Increasingly, futures are drafted not in parliaments or town halls, but in the meeting rooms and venture offices of Silicon Valley. The motherboard — unseen and secretly glamorous — serves as the substrate of this cryptic co-opting of the future. Its ideology? Frictionless progress, data extractivism, optimization as morality, and the techno-spiritual promise of utopia. The figure who emerges at the forefront of this shift is ‘the techbro’: a new cultural archetype who, in many ways, retains the messianic attributes of previous Californian generations of hippie idealists, except, he also may be a corporate billionaire. In other words, the motherboard is an architecture that does not merely process information; it scripts imaginaries.

Het inmiddels tijd voor ons tweede nummer van dit jaar: _Motherboard._ In dit nummer wordt het moederbord benaderd als de technologische en materiële motor achter het idee van frictieloze vooruitgang, data-extractie, optimalisatie als moraal en de techno-spirituele belofte van utopie. Hetzelfde moederbord dat de visies van Silicon Valley aandrijft, structureert nu ook de meest intieme aspecten van ons dagelijks leven. Het nummer opent met een kritisch essay van Peter Polack (Sickness International), waarin hij uiteenzet hoe de gevaren van cybernetisch denken niet enkel in de gevolgen ervan schuilen, maar vooral in de cybernetische logica zelf, die vaak leidt tot systemische paranoia en wantrouwen. Nai-Syuan Ye verkent dit thema verder in een kort sciencefictionverhaal over een dystopische samenleving, en Maroua Gaddur belichaamt het online archetype van de ‘silly girl’ in haar tekst_ This is me if you even care_.

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Author: Simulacrum collective
Year: 2026
ISBN: Zonder
Pages: 78
Language: English
Publisher: Simulacrum collective
Publisher's city: Amsterdam
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