AATMA ✦ عتمة is an open alliance that was formed as an emergency response in Berlin in October 2023. Circulating in many languages from Arabic to Sanskrit and German, “aatma” is a term that speaks to, on one side, state obfuscation and, on another, an entity, interconnecting life. As an acronym, AATMA ✦ عتمة might stand for […]

is an online magazine and solidarity collective – by and for cultural workers.

(“PYM”) is a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians in Palestine and in exile worldwide as a result of the ongoing Zionist colonization and occupation of our homeland. Our belonging to Palestine and our aspirations for justice and liberation motivate us to assume an active role as a young generation in our national struggle […]

is a searching body and soul. He came to this planet in1984, landed in Lebanon and loved the eightiess despite all its traumas. Hashem is a director, writer, actor and organizer based in Beirut. He acuariid his BA in acting and directing from the Lebanese University in 2006. He played the mad man in his […]

Cecile Malaspina, Inigo Wilkins, Martina Raponi, Mattin, Miguel Prado, Sonia de Jager

is a philosopher. He has lectured and taught at numerous international universities and institutes. His current philosophical project is focused on rationalist universalism beginning with the evolution of the modern system of knowledge and advancing toward contemporary philosophies of rationalism, their procedures as well as their demands for special forms of human conduct. His latest […]

is a writer, translator, DJ and performer based in Mount Lebanon and born there in April 1990. He is interested in rituals, club cultures, catharsis and healing practices. He works under the pseudonym “MAWADα”, a hybrid production and DJing project that explores voice, ritual and community-based healing.

is an Afro-diasporic and Black materialist multidisciplinary platform formed by Black writers, musicians and club workers. Registered in France as a a Non-Governmental Organisation, the Technomaterialism platform is focused on providing alternatives to McCarthyism & neoliberal representational optics in dance music: https://technomaterialism.com/ .

is a German techno-political writer based in Berlin. As a board member of Berlin Collective Action and The Black Sex Worker Collective she’s been developing her activism work and is reporting through the lens of her identity as a white trans woman, DJ, tech freelancer and community organizer. Hanna’s marxist antifascist politics in action positions […]

(b. Baghdad, 1978) uses writing, art-making, and teaching to examine the relationship of images and rhetoric to experiences of violence. She founded Sada, an arts education initiative for Baghdad-based students, operating from 2010-15. Sahakian has lectured extensively on critical issues in the arts, organized public exhibitions and seminars, and was a visiting professor at the […]

is an interdisciplinary art, design practitioner and pedagogue, predominantly working with artisanal textile techniques, text/image and voice/movement. Mouhanna’s fundamental interest lies in our need to assign meaning to things: the production, communication, and transfer of signs and meaning as a defining characteristic of the human condition—and the logistics, technologies, and ideologies that go into semiotic […]

is an electronic musician and a sound practitioner based in Beirut, Lebanon. His practice revolves around live performances, recording and designing sound for film and sound installations. Itani’s work heavily relies on synthesizers and drum machines, with a setup focused on his Formanta UDS soviet drum machine as a main instrument. While in the studio […]

is a Research Fellow based at the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law. Her research interests span the broad topic of energy and society, with a focus on new technology design and development, consumption and everyday life, and energy, cities and conflict.

is an artist, composer, technologist, writer and educatress. Khazrik works with a trans-millennial production of knowledge based on an environmental understanding of the techno-politics of voice, media, and code. While probing the unity of science and the multi-dimensionality of experience in an age that institutes separation, her practice revolves around the collective search and need […]