Network Affect: Intersubjectivity IV

On the complex interrelations between individuals and technological systems within the context of our progressively networked societies.

Intersubjectivity Vol. IV explores the shifting stakes and responsibilities of intersubjective exchange—among individuals, between individuals and machines, and among machines—within increasingly networked social, political, and informational systems.

While recent technological advancements highlight the advantages of decentralization, they also reveal how their functionalities limit our autonomy, guide us along paths dictated by capital, and even incite authoritarian tendencies. What tangible impacts does the digital realm impose on physical bodies, and who is most affected by these consequences? Through case studies, media analyses, object lessons, experimental texts, and other interdisciplinary methods of inquiry and critique, contributors examine our current frameworks and envision potential futures. 

Contributors
Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Lou Cantor, Dawn Chan, Paolo Cirio, Aria Dean, Simon Denny, William Kherbek, Josh Kline, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eva & Franco Mattes, Metahaven, Luciana Parisi, Seth Price, Alessandra Renzi, Quinn Slobodian, Patrick Urs Riechert and Elena Vogman, Jan de Vos, McKenzie Wark.

Mira Dayal is an artist, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She copublishes the collaborative artist book series prompt: and co-edited Track changes: a handbook for art criticism (2023). Dayal has held numerous exhibitions across the United States and abroad and currently teaches at Barnard College and the School of Visual Arts.

Kolja Glaeser is an artist, curator, and editor based in Berlin. His practice investigates the layered dynamics of contemporary communication—among individuals, between humans and machines, and within machinic interactions—set against the backdrop of increasingly entangled social, political, and informational systems. He is the editor of the Intersubjectivity series at Sternberg Press and a founding member of the artist collective Lou Cantor.

Adina Glickstein is a writer, editor, and technology researcher from Colorado. Her writing has appeared in the international art press alongside legacy publications like the New York Times. She is an editor-at-large for Spike Art Magazine where she writes a monthly column on internet culture.