Forget Boy-Philosophy: here, we know that surfaces are sites of power and lambs are fluent in the noise of the world. But where is the difference between poetry and theory? In this episode, theorist and artist Alex Quicho dissects her concept of the Girl – a tripartite technology of subjectivity weaving the symbolic, the consumer and the inhuman – to offer a roadmap for navigating *planetary computation* (take a shot) through strategic inhabitation. If the predator overlooks the noise, what might we build in its blind spots?

Alex Quicho
https://amfq.xyz

Alex Quicho, girlstack
https://girlstack.substack.com/

Girl Intelligence (Aksioma, 2025)
https://aksioma.org/girl-intelligence

Noura Tafeche, Alex Quicho, She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal
https://aksioma.org/ayasu/conference/shes-evil-most-definitively-subliminal

Alex Quicho, Everyone Is A Girl Online
https://www.wired.com/story/girls-online-culture/

Alex Quicho, The Gore Layer:
https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/discourse-the-gore-layer-alex-quicho

Alex Quicho, Small Gods (Zero Books, 2021):
https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/small-gods

Alex Quicho, GIRLSTACK, BODYSTACK Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZvs56WxXU

Alex Quicho, Prey Mode, BODYSTACKED Summit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4hwM4ljoh4

Host: Neja Berger
Guest: Alex Quicho

Recording: Neja Berger
Music and audio mix: Gašper Torkar
Editing: Neja Berger, Janez Fakin Janša

Are You a Software Update? podcast series

Curated by: Neja Berger
Coordinated by: Janez Fakin Janša
Produced by: Marcela Okretič

Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2025

Part of:
tactics&practice#16: Are You a Software Update?
Curated by Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša, Neja Berger

Supported by:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica

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