Predstavitev dvojne številke revije Šum: Unreality Mode × Mikkel Rørbo

𝐊𝐚𝐤𝐬̌𝐧𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐳𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐣𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐤𝐚𝐤𝐬̌𝐧𝐨 𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐳𝐚𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐤, 𝐤𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜̌𝐧𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐯𝐚? 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐳̌𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐝𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚 𝐳𝐚 𝐞𝐤𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐞 𝐳 (𝐫𝐚𝐳)𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐞𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢?

Šum z novo, dvojno številko 𝑈𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒 raziskuje učinke, ki se porajajo med psihotičnim nezaupanjem v realnost na eni strani in suspenzom nevere v fikcijo na drugi.

𝐏𝐫𝐯𝐢 𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐬̌𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐤𝐞 zariše to vmesno področje. Sodelujoči pisci_ke artikulirajo, kako nerealnost ni več zgolj praznina ali iluzija, temveč operativni način, v katerem same fikcije postajajo pogonski mehanizem. Besedila sledijo postopkom – kemičnim, algoritmičnim, geopolitičnim, narativnim, epistemskim in psihotičnim – skozi katere je realnost danes preoblikovana in ponovno zagnana. V 𝑈𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒 nismo opazovalci teh procesov, temveč njihovi prevodniki in sestavni deli. Vprašanje se ne glasi več, kako se vrniti k neki izgubljeni realnosti, temveč kako to stanje strateško naseliti in kako uporabiti fikcije kot vmesnike za orientacijo v nenehnem preoblikovanju realnega. 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐢 𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐬̌𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐤𝐞 odpira razmislek o tem, kako se sodobna umetnost umešča v ta odziv.

𝑈𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒 uradno izide na prelomu leta. Predstavitev dvojne številke bo to soboto, 𝟐𝟎. 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚, ob 𝟏𝟖.𝟎𝟎 v 𝐀𝐤𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐢. Vabljeni na pogovor z Mikkelom Rørbom in Maksom Valenčičem ter po svoj brezplačen izvod prvega dela številke!

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𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐤𝐞𝐥 𝐑ø𝐫𝐛𝐨 se nam bo v Ljubljani pridružil pri razpravi o operativni fikciji kot sili, metodi in praksi, ki ponudi pojmovno slovnico za razumevanje dogajanja v režimu nerealnosti. Rørbo se v svojem prispevku za Šum naslanja na abduktivno sklepanje oz. logiko ugibanja, skozi katero razpira hipersticionalne mehanizme, produkcijo realnosti in željo, pri tem pa izhaja iz Peircea, kibernetike in strojnega učenja.

Mikkel je interdisciplinarni raziskovalec in producent »kulturnih sedimentov«. Kot raziskovalec deluje na Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures na Univerzi za uporabne umetnosti na Dunaju, kjer se osredotoča na diferenco, agenskost in časovnost, kot se te prepletajo s temami strojne kognicije, drugosti in političnih potencialnosti. Trenutno predava o digitalnem okultizmu in njegovem mestu v tehnopolitični kulturi.

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𝐀𝐯𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐣𝐢 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐯𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐩𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚: Emily Martin, Miguel Prado Casanova, Mikkel Rørbo, Parham Ghalamdar in Parsa Esmaeilzadeh, Pichaya Aime Suphavanij, Vincent Lê in Wouter Kusters.

𝐀𝐯𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐣𝐢 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐯𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐞𝐠𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚: Eliška Jahelková, Ema Ograjenšek, Jiří Sirůček, Jon Derganc, Luja Šimunović, Most Dismal Swamp, Noemi Purkrábková, Philip Speakman, Proto Gallery Systems, Scott Wark, Sophie Publig in Claire Elise Herzberg, Vladimir Vidmar in Živa Božičnik Rebec.

Uredništvo: Maks Valenčič in Tjaša Pogačar
Oblikovanje: Jaka Neon
Produkcija: Rok Horvat

Številki revije Šum #24 in #25 sta izšli s podporo Ministrstva za kulturo RS in Mestne občine Ljubljana.

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Unreality Mode pre-release and conversation with Mikkel Rørbo!

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧/𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲?

With two volumes of 𝑈𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒, Šum journal explores the effects and affordances unfolding between psychotic disbelief in reality on the one end and the suspension of disbelief in fiction on the other.

𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐈 traces this between-zone. The contributors show how unreality is no longer just a void or illusion but an operational mode in which fictions become the very machinery. The texts follow the procedures—chemical, algorithmic, geopolitical, narrative, epistemic, and psychotic—through which reality is now forced, bent, and rerun. In 𝑈𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒, we are not observers of these processes but their conduits and components.. What is at stake is no longer how to return to some lost reality, but how to inhabit this condition strategically—how to use fictions as interfaces for navigating the ongoing remaking of the real. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 explores how contemporary art takes up this challenge.

𝑈𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒 comes out at the turn of the year. A presentation of the double issue, focusing on the first volume will take place this Saturday, 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎, at 𝟏𝟖:𝟎𝟎 at 𝐀𝐤𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐚. Join us for a conversation with Mikkel Rorbo and Maks Valenčič, and get your hands on free copies of Volume I.

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𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐤𝐞𝐥 𝐑ø𝐫𝐛𝐨 joins us in Ljubljana to discuss operative fiction as a force, a method, and a practice, providing a conceptual grammar for what is going on in unreality mode. Drawing on Peirce, cybernetics, and machine learning, Rørbo focuses in his text for Šum on abductive inference— the logic of the guess to unpack the hyperstitional mechanics, reality-production and desire.

Mikkel is an interdisciplinary researcher and producer of cultural detritus. He is currently a researcher at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where his work is centered on questions of difference, agency, and time as they manifest in and connect to such topics as machinic cognition, otherness, and political potentialities. He is currently teaching on digital occultism and its place in technopolitical culture.

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𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐈 features contributions by Emily Martin, Miguel Prado Casanova, Mikkel Rørbo, Parham Ghalamdar & Parsa Esmaeilzadeh, Pichaya Aime Suphavanij, Vincent Lê, and Wouter Kusters.

𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐈𝐈 brings together work by Eliška Jahelková, Ema Ograjenšek, Jiří Sirůček, Jon Derganc, Luja Šimunović, Most Dismal Swamp, Noemi Purkrábková, Philip Speakman, Proto Gallery Systems, Scott Wark, Sophie Publig & Claire Elise Herzberg, Vladimir Vidmar, and Živa Božičnik Rebec.

Edited by Maks Valenčič & Tjaša Pogačar. Design by Jaka Neon. Production: Rok Horvat.

Šum issues #24 and #25 are published with the support of the Ministry of Culture RS and the City of Ljubljana.