In early 2025 a Reddit meme emerged featuring the producer/influencer Rick Rubin, eyes closed, seemingly lost in something deep, truthy and intuitive in his headphones, with the neologism “LettingTheVibes BeYourGuide” as its caption.[1] This briefly became an image metonym for vibe coding – the act of using LLMs to help the… The post Vibe coding the future appeared first on carrier-bag.net.

The Insurrection of the Resurrection The trial for pessimism transforms ecological consciousness into psychological pathology rather than ontological access. When one attempts to confront the irremediable—extinction without-remainder, the closure of all future testimony—this confrontation is often reframed as personal despair.

We have entered the post-alphabetic era announced by Vilém Flusser. Apparatuses now program us as much as we program them. In this techno-imaginal universe where all our faculties are traversed by technologies, the question of fascism arises differently. Vectofascism designates this contemporary political form that adapts the fundamental mechanisms of… The post Vectofascism – Part I: Vectoaesthetics appeared first on carrier-bag.net.

Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, A House Built On Dynamite, opens with the kind of dread that has long haunted American imagination: a nuclear missile, origin unknown, tearing toward the United States. No one can stop it. Not even the country’s own Ground-Based Interceptor missiles, whose accuracy is as disputed as the… The post Who Are We In A World Built On Algorithms & Dynamite? appeared first on carrier-bag.net.

We seem to be at the end of globalization. With seismic political shifts, a certain era of contemporary art has also come to a close.

This article aims documents how to set up the content management system WordPress to feed AI scrapers with nonsensical noise. The author has developed such a solution for Carrier-Bag.net, which now culminates in the WordPress plugin HalluciGen . Acknowledging the tremendous popularity of the WordPress publishing platform, our project decided to publish the code – free to use, on a liberal license and an open-source basis.

Conference Tue, June 3, 17.30-21 and Wed, June 4, 12-19 at AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2, Central Lecture Hall, free admission With: Gregory Chatonsky, Simon Denny, Navine G. Dossos, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Mat Dryhurst, Constant Dullaart, Antonio Somaini There is a strange disconnect in tech’s recent effects on politics and culture.

“The claws were bad enough in the first place – nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace – if it could! […] Across the ground something small and metallic came, flashing in the dull sunlight…

AI has played a pivotal role in Israel’s war in the Gaza strip since October 7 ^th 2023, when Hamas militants massacred 1,200 Israeli civilians and soldiers and took more than 250 hostage (CNN 2025).  Reporting by Israeli and international news outlets have detailed how large language models and predictive analytics are helping to determine when and where bombs fall from the sky and troops shoot on the ground (Abraham 2024).

Overture Over the last few years, I have been researching the militarized Kurdish landscape through a triangle of affinities linking the machine, the animal and the human. The interaction between the militaristic, the natural and the cultural unfolds as a sonic battle on the colonized landscape. Sonic booms, bird calls and songs of resistance echo in the same valleys.

To say that ours are darkening times is to acknowledge, that the present moment – the year is 2025 – is increasingly characterised by familiar modes of authoritarian oppression, of right-wing political cruelty and of inevitably rising geopolitical tensions in the context of which nuclear Armageddon and the necessity for autonomous weapon systems are frequently conjured up,  often in the same breath.