Always a rewarding read, Neural’s print issue! Alessandro Ludovico explains in the editorial what his team did to turn this printed edition into the most sustainable one so far. I also found the article on Solarpunk very interesting; it has a great list of related literature added.

Topics in this issue:

Ai Hasegawa, Robertina Šebjanič, The Centre for Genomic Gastronomy, Kasia Molga, The Radiant Future of Solarpunk, Listening as Activism, Werkleitz Festival 2021, Climate Care…

News

Xenological Entanglements. 001b: Saccular Fount, an act of resistance
Doors of Listening, vibrations about refugees
Perpétuité I, metaphysical machines
Horologic Solum, self-destructive media archeology
A Natural History of Networks / SoftMachine, electrochemical performance
Recurrent Morphing Radio, over-consumed streaming noise
Numeriser le plancher, the floor scanner
Unexpected Scenery, all wrapped in the sea
A Crack in the Hourglass, collective mourning in the sands of time
Antibodies, never ending video call
Metamorphoseon, sinister machinic forces
Floralia, speculative species archive
Log, a robotic abacus of life
The Solar Protocol Network, sunshine-dependent internet
The criticism of violence 2.0, glamour leash

Centerfold:

Can the Subaltern Speak?, radical augmented gaze.

Book reviews:
Anaïs Boch & Nicolas Nova / Dr. Smartphones: an ethnography of mobile phone repair shops / IDPURE
Anthony McCosker, Rowan Wilken / Automating Vision, The Social Impact of the New Camera Consciousness / Routledge
(edited by) Ann Bessemans, Marjan Doom, Frank Merkx and Nele Wynants / Overlap – The no man’s land between art and science / Komma, Uitgeverij
Robert Barry / Compact Disc / Bloomsbury Academic
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein / Data Feminism / The MIT Press
Pau Waelder – You Can Be A Wealthy / Cash-Strapped Art Collector In The Digital Age – Printer Fault Press
Edited by Johannes Hossfeld Etyang, Joyce Nyairo, Florian Sievers / TEN CITIES, Clubbing in Nairobi, Cairo, Kyiv, Johannesburg, Berlin, Naples, Luanda, Lagos, Bristol, Lisbon 1960–March 2020 / Spector Books
(edited by) Domenico Quaranta and Janez Janša / Hyperemployment – Post-work, Online Labour and Automation / NERO and Aksioma
(edited by) Miller Puckette and Kerry L. Hagan / Between the Tracks, Musicians on Selected Electronic Music / MIT Press
(edited by) Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel / Critical Zones, The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth / The MIT Press
edited by Rui Chaves, Fernando Iazzetta / Making It Heard, A History of Brazilian Sound Art / Bloomsbury
(edited by) Karla Zavala & Adriaan Odendaal / Algorithms of late-capitalism, issues #1 to #4 / Internet Teapot
edited by Shusha Niederberger, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder / Aesthetics of the Commons / Diaphanes
(edited by) Ben Vickers & K Allado-McDowell / Atlas of Anomalous AI / Ignota Books
(edited by) Elisa Metz / Grapefruits #01-#03 / grapefruits.online

Music reviews:

Philippe Hallais: Awesome!: In Paradisum
@c: GML Variations: Crónica
Andy Guhl: Flatwise Huddle: Edizioni Periferia
Anthony Pateras: Pseudacusis: Bocian
Bellenger | Eisl | Wurzwallner | Zachariadis: One Hundred Thousand Copies Sold: Moozak
Franck Vigroux: Ballades sur lac gelé: raster
Furtherset: To Live Tenderly Anew: OUS
Geins’t Naït & L.Petitgand — Like This Maybe Or This — Ici d’ailleurs
Palo Alto: Difference and Repetition / A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze: Sub Rosa
Ivan Iusco: Synthagma: Minus Habens Records
Lucas Odahara with Luiz Monteiro: Cover (Something Newly Missing): Research & Wavesrec
Maya Verlaak & Andy Ingamells: Tape Piece: Birmingham Record Company
Otomax: Ways To Prepare Pets For War: MOAB
Prins & Simonis: Mothers Of Exit: z6records
Randi Pontoppidan & Thomas Buckner: Voicescapes: Chant Records
Julia Bünnagel: SOUNDS LIKE… VIENNA: Gruenrekorder
Robin Schlochtermeier: Spectral: Denovali
Snow Palms: Land Waves: Village Green Recordings
Tine Surel Lange: Works for Listening 1-10: SOFA
Yannis Kyriakides & Electra: Face: Unsounds

Published february 2022, 56 pages in total.
Cover picture: Ai Hasegawa – The Extrme Environment Love Hotel, Carboniferous Room.

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