Exocapitalism is the idea that capitalism doesn't belong to us: that it works as a form, almost like an algorithm, and could keep working without us. The seminar runs through several of its core mechanisms – Lift and Fold – before turning to the concept of the Superdark Factory. Lift is capital's tendency to pull away from fixed costs, from the ground, from the sphere of human affairs. You can see it in an airline that no longer sells seats but positions in a queue, or in a telecom operator that sells its towers and keeps using them as a tenant. Fold is the process by which difference emerges without any change to the substrate – the lens through which we read the software economy. We close by introducing and discussing the Superdark Factory: a factory that determines its own objectives, the automation of automation – and what it means...

Why has it become so much easier and, simultaneously, so much harder to believe what we see? Medialab invites you to an exhitibion with site-specific artworks showcasing the research of a new generation of artists around the technocultural mechanisms that redefine what we used to call “the real”. Opening times Opening and exhibition visit with the curator Bani Brusadin and the participant artists: Thursday, October 15, 7pm (doors open from 6:30pm) Tuesday to Thursday, from 5pm to 9pm Friday to Sunday (and holidays), from 12pm to 9pm Schedule of guided visits with the exhibition curator, Bani Brusadin Sunday, October 18, from 12:30pm to 1pm. Saturday, November 21st, from 12:30pm to 1pm. Saturday, November 28, from 12:30pm to 1pm. Sunday, December 13, from 12:30pm to 1pm. To join the visit, please turn up 15 minutes before it starts at Matadero Information desk (Paseo de la Chopera, 14). Why has it become...