THE STATE is a publishing practice based out of Dubai, U.A.E. It investigates South-South reorientations, problematised futurisms, transgressive cultural criticism, and the sensuous architecture of this “printernet.”

AKA «browning the future»

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Jul 19, 2012
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It’s the future of 1956. A team of researchers from the nebulous “colonial administration” has a run in with mimetic shape-shifters on Planet Blue. These shape-shifters can recreate any kind of inorganic matter: they appear as microscopes, belts, rugs, and anything else that could sneak up on humans and strangle us. Of course, the 1956 team dismisses the Shifters’ first target for a psych evaluation. This guy is attacked by something that looks like his microscope, and then gets his sanity assessed by a ‘computer’ that might have built by humans, but might be a Shifter doing its own research in order to take down all human life on Blue. A spontaneous, calculating life form that we cannot really detect. Is this starting to sound familiar? (via fleshy standards for mean machines | THE STATE)

It’s the future of 1956. A team of researchers from the nebulous “colonial administration” has a run in with mimetic shape-shifters on Planet Blue. These shape-shifters can recreate any kind of inorganic matter: they appear as microscopes, belts, rugs, and anything else that could sneak up on humans and strangle us. Of course, the 1956 team dismisses the Shifters’ first target for a psych evaluation. This guy is attacked by something that looks like his microscope, and then gets his sanity assessed by a ‘computer’ that might have built by humans, but might be a Shifter doing its own research in order to take down all human life on Blue. A spontaneous, calculating life form that we cannot really detect. Is this starting to sound familiar? (via fleshy standards for mean machines | THE STATE)