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If we wish now (finally) to get serious about any kind of path towards sustainability in our high-tech + hyper-industrialized culture, it may be urgent to reassess the ingrained fetishes of the Cyborg, which were spawned from the idea of "hacking" the human for space travel, and then took on new strains in the era of the Capitalocene. Have we unleashed untenable and unethical fantasies which have now taken hold in the unregulated marketplace of a new "Guineapigdom" ? And how do we get back down to Earth from this invasive corporate-made mess ?
C-KiNO is a platform for "cinema hacking" and investigating urgent topics for us to navigate better possible worlds. We screen curated film + media clips in a performative and interactive environment in order to encourage deeper analysis and constructive discussions and strategies.
An XLterrestrials work-in-progress essay on our positions on what we might now call problematic "Cyborgism" manifestations: https://xlterrestrials.substack.com/p/cyborgism-to-the-bitter-ends-of-krapitalia
Our topics arise out of many years working with media artivism. And participating in research and actions in regards to Anthropocene studies and movements for Climate Justice + Social Justice. And also much involvement in sociological investigations into Technological Environments, Techno-colonialism, Hacker + Hacktivist cultures, Arts + Activism + Praxis, etc.
Our platform C-KINO arises out of a fascination with film and media... and the movements around "tactical media".
We are a community organism, known as the XLterrestrials. Dr. Podrescu is more or less a pragmatic fictional narrative and a medium/channel through which to perform "psychomedia analysis" and guide positive edutainment sessions known as CiTiZEN KiNO.