What if seduction—not dissection—could fracture algorithmic control? Artist, researcher and author Shaka McGlotten guides us through witchy warfare against quantification, deploying computational hexes, opacity, fugitivity and improvisational sabotage. Having given up on dialectics and excavation, we embrace surface-level dissociation, shifting from exit to error, from critique to conjure. We may not be able to escape the machine, but could yet seduce it off-script.

Shaka McGlotten, Black Data
https://www.academia.edu/16303256/Black_Data

Shaka McGlotten, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (Suny Press, 2013):
https://sunypress.edu/Books/V/Virtual-Intimacies

Shaka McGlotten, Dragging, Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life (Routledge, 2022):
https://www.routledge.com/Dragging-Or-in-the-Drag-of-a-Queer-Life/McGlotten/p/book/9780367439521

Host: Neja Berger
Guest: Shaka McGlotten

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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