Originally written June 2016. — Consider a near-future reality of making things in which every digital production process, material technique and construction method is fully automated, seamlessly connected and remotely organised.
In his 2012 review of the movie The Avengers, film critic of The Boston Globe, Tom Russo noted: The word “universe” is standard parlance in the comic book industry.
Written in collaboration with Eddie Blake. This essay was published as part of “Dixit Algorizmi – The Garden of Knowledge” the catalog of the Pavilion of the Republic of Uzbekistan at The Venice Biennale 2022.
Update September 2022 – This was published in December 2021, just months prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and only weeks before the initial build-up of troops.