(14/06/2021) Entrevista completa: http://accesoabierto.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/entradas/ciencia-abierta-comunismo-y-astrologia-entrevista-a-alexandra-elbakyan Entrevista, diseño e introducción a cargo de H C-(M) Traducción a cargo de Carolina Monti En marzo de 2021, la Unidad de Delitos de Propiedad Intelectual de la Policía de Londres emitió una advertencia a los estudiantes y universidades para dejar de visitar Sci-Hub, el primer…

Traduzione di ROARS — Return on Academic Research https://www.roars.it/online/cognizione-comunismo-e-furto-una-conversazione-con-la-fondatrice-di-sci-hub Pubblichiamo la traduzione di una conversazione con la fondatrice di Sci-Hub, Alexandra Elbakyan, apparsa il 19 marzo 2021 sul sito https://www.neroeditions.com. Quando la biblioteca ombra Sci-hub è stata fondata nel 2011, era destinata a rimuovere “le barriere sulla strada della scienza”…

Interview with Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan The online portal Sci-Hub has a simple promise: Make academic research available to anyone, for free. H C-M interviewed Sci-Hub’s founder Alexandra Elbakyan about the communist ideals behind her platform, Sci-Hub’s media coverage, status quo inside science publishing and the virtues of information theft. –…

The mandate of exclusive pay-wall access for scientific articles is nothing new inside research routines and academic cycles. This began after the influx of virtual repositories in the 90’s information-rerun era. However, the debates on whether or not these contents should become part of the public domain in contemporary network…

Film-maker, photographer, pornographer, provocateur, Bruce LaBruce brings the sex industry the avant-garde (and vice versa). In this extensive long read interview, H C-(M) talks to the notorious Canadian artist about legal wrangles, b-movies, and radical chic. — Robert Barry https://thequietus.com/articles/25636-bruce-labruce-interview-2 Bruce LaBruce is the migraine of the masses. For more…

In 2014 Mat Dryhurst wrote a companion text for »Anonymonth«, a project presented/hosted at the CTM Festival that was designed to think and ^habilitate the possibilities of internet as an experimental/anonymous tool to liberate expression precepts found in art/s and music: “One of the great privileges of an Internet era…

It’s been almost 15 years since the Human Genome Project (an unprecedented and ambitious enterprise to sequence the entire human genome) was completed with the help of a global scientific apparatus that accomplished not only the processing of huge amounts of data regarding the genetic instructions for human physiology and…

The turns and ramifications that life sciences took in the scarce 18 years of XXI century have been undeniably attached to scenarios in which the late neoliberalism project successfully implemented new reticular models applied as ‘revolutionary rework’_s, in order to increase control scope over citizen bodies and at the same…

Communication is the core of everything that entangles Eduardo Kac’s remarkable (soon to turn) four decades of work, from Movimento de Arte Pornô’s defiant use of collective porno-dada against Brazil’s oppressive dictatorship in the early 80’s, to the zero gravity CNES/ISS conceived Inner Space in 2017, Kac’s strategies to deliver…