Institute of Diagram Studies
diagram_studies@post.lurk.org
<p>Research and practice by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@davidbenque" class="u-url mention">@<span>davidbenque</span></a></span></p><p>Keywords & research areas:<br />Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods</p><p>🔻 ⏚ 🍉<br /><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/noAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noAI</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/noCrawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noCrawl</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/noBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noBots</span></a
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Happy $SPCX IPO Day! Unfortunately we can&#39;t hold a sigil séance to curse the SpaceX IPO in real-time today But we are sharing some sigils for you to launch from home or work The NASDAQ bell ceremony should be around 9.30AM EST on Friday 12th June (3.30PM CEST). Payloads should be launched around that time and throughout the trading day 📦 🚀 🚫 @luh2203 &amp; @diagram_studies #spacex #curse #magick
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AI War Cloud AI War Cloud is an interactive database and tangible interactive installation connecting and explaining the current techno-imperial boomerang that is perpetuated by machine learning. 🔗 https://aiwar.cloud/ Filed: 2026-03-27 Under: 🕸️ Wargram https://are.na/block/44810960
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📓🌱 resources for Radical Infrastructures, Permacomputing, Stealth Hosting and Other Networks by @colm et al. 🔗 https://miriamreynoldson.com/2026/06/08/resources-for-radical-infrastructures-permacomputing-stealth-hosting-and-other-networks/ Filed: 2026-06-18 Under: 🕸️ Permagram ✏️ Luddite Academy https://are.na/block/47126589
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📄 AGENTS.md - GoToSocial @gotosocial 🔗 https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/src/branch/main/AGENTS.md Filed: 2026-06-10 Under: ✏️ Luddite Academy https://are.na/block/46911019
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The Institute is proud to be a member of @Codeberg https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
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Witchcraft &amp; Pagan Periodicals Archive A collaborative archive documenting historical witchcraft, Pagan, occult, and esoteric periodicals. Discover publications, explore collections, and help preserve our shared print history. 🔗 https://www.witchcraftandpaganarchive.org/ Filed: 2026-08-16 Under: 🕸️ Witchgram 🗄️ Archives, Datasets, Libraries https://are.na/block/49564039
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🗺️🇫🇷 LinkED - Cartographie interactive de l’extrême droite française by @reflets 🔗 https://link-ed.info/ Filed: 2026-08-18 Under: 🔭 Antifa mapping https://are.na/block/49619788
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🏭 🧟 Critical Bog Studies of Infrastructure reading list; on the Big Tech greenwashed land-grabs to build datacenters in rural Ireland. 📄 ‘Bog Communism’ The BREAK—DOWN, September 19 2025, Roisin Agnew, https://www.break-down.org/bog-communism/ 📄 ‘Bog Trouble’ The Baffler, January 5 2026, Caitlín Doherty https://thebaffler.com/salvos/bog-trouble-doherty 📕 ‘From the Bog to the Cloud’ Bristol University Press, 2025, Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/from-t...
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116391284280771352 The Institute is pleased to support the Science is Poetry project by @JulianOliver implementing &quot;Poison-as-a-Service (PaaS)&quot;. We have donated the domain https://sales.luddite.academy that now provides one of many entry points to the tar-pit for webscrapers. 🧵 thread: https://post.lurk.org/@JulianOliver@mastodon.social/116391284385308103 🌐 project page: https://julianoliver.com/projects/science-is-poetry/ #luddism #...
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Thoughts to the #8m network 📡✊🏻 Counter Cloud Action Day was a beautiful 2024 energy https://diagram.institute/8m/
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📜 To celebrate the 8th of March the Institute did a shitload of childcare #8m
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Lee&#39;s knitting frame - Stocking frame W. Felkin: A history of the machine-wrought hosiery and lace manufacturers (published in 1867) 🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocking_frame#/media/File:Lee&#39;s_knitting_frame.jpg Filed: 2026-03-03 Under: 🔭 Luddism https://are.na/block/44114976
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The Institute is extremely concerned to see #ImageMagick, a major component of the graphics stack, on the slippery slope towards becoming slopware, more by @ansuz 👇🏻 https://gts.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/statuses/01KKRC56ETV2WP4GCWTNCRN74Z
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Our Kinships with the Constellations: Land Relations in the Atmosphere and the Consequences of Lithium-Mediated Internet Access | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience via @jcalpickard 🔗 https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/45084 Filed: 2026-03-14 Under: ✏️ Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires 🚀🔮 https://are.na/block/44422980
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The Institute enforces a strict one day work-week
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Thanks to an institute request it is now possible to purchase multiple sticker sets in one order. Just saying
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🌐🕸️ Esoteric Ecotechnics; Irrational Computation and Conspiratorial Networking @luh2203 and an Institute delegation will present Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires in the exhibition space ✹ Saturday 4 October, 15:30 @ Minorite church, Vojašniški trg 2 Maribor Slovenia curated by Lara Mejač &amp; Davide Bevilacqua @dvd 🗓️ https://www.mfru.org/events/lucile-haute-institute-of-diagram-studies-sigil-seance-against-space-billionaires 🌐 https://www.mfru.org/ 🚀🔮 https://sigil-seance.diag...
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📰 bindloareswhfytupkmcg The Institute and @luh2203 are featured in issue #148 of @versorgerin with an interview about Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires by Tanja Brandmayr EN: https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/12-2025/bindloareswhfytupkmcg-en AT: https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/12-2025/bindloareswhfytupkmcg
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📄 New Institute publication: Margins on Fire! European Alternatives Journal, Issue 11, Transeuropa 25 https://euroalter.com/about-the-journal/print-editions/ PDF: https://euroalter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/EAJ11_EN_Digital.pdf featuring: Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires w/ @luh2203
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🚫 🚀 📨 Invitations for the next Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires will be sent out in the next week or so. The theme of this edition is: Datacenters in Space. As usual we will be looking for exactly seven participants on a first-replied-to-the-email basis. To be included in the mailing list for this and future séances please fill up this form: https://docs.luddite.tools/form/#/2/form/view/Ud4KDMJGi4tFnOwbm2DRPdKBGShf8luVrnAAZwIsTOg/ More about the project: https://sigil-seance.diagram.ins...
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🎧 🇫🇷 La proriété c&#39;est vol ‽ Et après … - Liminal podcast by @XavCC @hack2o - Regard sur la propriété avec textes de Malabou, Cerutti, et Léna Dormeau - Une discussion avec Aymeric Mansoux @320x200 atour de “Nothing in Commons: the end of digital collective ownership?&quot; - Procès Nestlé Waters, Appel à Mobilisation à Bordeaux contre Imérys, remerciements 🔗 https://podcast.micro-ondes.org/@liminal/episodes/la-proriete-cest-vol-et-apres Filed: 2026-03-21 Under: 🔭 FLOSS politics...
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🎟️ Registrations are now open for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/3rd-symposium-on-digital-art-in-ireland-tickets-1985523941558 An Institute delegation will present &#39;Luddite Academy; towards a politicised digital creative practice&#39; a paper about current and future work around #luddism and its application to artistic practice and research. #conference #art #digitalart #luddites #noai #ireland
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Stop doing borders 🔗 https://bsky.app/profile/ike.blue/post/3mf4fykazks2y Filed: 2026-02-18 Under: 🕸️ Countergram https://are.na/block/43705103
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⊞ This is a political compass 🔗 [source expired] https://twitter.com/SteffanBlayney/status/1316437761298239488 Filed: 2020-10-15 Under: 🔭 Critical Spreadsheet Studies https://are.na/block/9120795