Georgina Voss
@gsvoss.bsky.social
Big machines // Writer, artist, design researcher // Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso '24) // Before: Co-founder & director: Supra Systems Studio & Strange Telemetry
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Georgina Voss
@gsvoss.bsky.social
· Jan 23
She’s here! SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD is out today, published by Verso; I am so delighted that it is finally in the world. The formal launch is at The Design Museum on Sat 27th (link in bio) with more to follow - watch this space. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Any suggestions of good STS scholarship (journal articles, book chapters, other) on disability and technology? never been quite satisfied with ones I've used before in teaching...
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Any suggestions of good STS scholarship (journal articles, book chapters, other) on disability and technology? never been quite satisfied with ones I've used before in teaching...
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
(please show me the Halloween costume from the hero who decides to dress as the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist? ty)
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
(please show me the Halloween costume from the hero who decides to dress as the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist? ty)
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www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-eat-the... FYI the very excellent artist and writer Crystal Bennes is taking pre-orders for her next artist's book, which is a documentary project on global industrial fertilizer supply chains, if you follow me on here you're probably into this sort of thing
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-eat-the... FYI the very excellent artist and writer Crystal Bennes is taking pre-orders for her next artist's book, which is a documentary project on global industrial fertilizer supply chains, if you follow me on here you're probably into this sort of thing
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The appropriate reparations for centuries of extractive colonialism is freely providing the resources — technology, tools, money — to build out local renewable energy infrastructure globally, so that every human community has access to energy ample to meet all their needs so they can thrive.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The appropriate reparations for centuries of extractive colonialism is freely providing the resources — technology, tools, money — to build out local renewable energy infrastructure globally, so that every human community has access to energy ample to meet all their needs so they can thrive.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2025)
October 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Mad Max: Fury Road (2025)
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Checking my 'great ideas' notes from the pub last night and the one new item is "Dr Butter's Boardroom Bones" - a velvet bag of scrying bones, for you to throw on the table and consult yourself every time a colleague says they "asked chatGPT and..."
October 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Checking my 'great ideas' notes from the pub last night and the one new item is "Dr Butter's Boardroom Bones" - a velvet bag of scrying bones, for you to throw on the table and consult yourself every time a colleague says they "asked chatGPT and..."
It is very annoying to have to keep pushing back against thie targeted and weaponised hatred trans folx but on we go. Please do respond to this consultation if you can x
📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
October 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It is very annoying to have to keep pushing back against thie targeted and weaponised hatred trans folx but on we go. Please do respond to this consultation if you can x
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ROSENCRANTZ: Let's play questions.
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-
September 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
ROSENCRANTZ: Let's play questions.
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-
ME (crawling under the bed to pet the cat who is trying to nap there): I LOVE you.
CAT: [grunts]
ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!
CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]
CAT: [grunts]
ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!
CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]
September 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
ME (crawling under the bed to pet the cat who is trying to nap there): I LOVE you.
CAT: [grunts]
ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!
CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]
CAT: [grunts]
ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!
CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]
(if you would like a film with a lot of pups in it, a gentle nudge towards 'The Company of Wolves' - lots of v charismatic Belgian Shepherds with dye jobs running around, together with a few of the big guys)
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
(if you would like a film with a lot of pups in it, a gentle nudge towards 'The Company of Wolves' - lots of v charismatic Belgian Shepherds with dye jobs running around, together with a few of the big guys)
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NEW book review! James Dyer reviews Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
August 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
NEW book review! James Dyer reviews Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
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There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
'[America By Design] proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country...digital design intended for the privileged few, actively excluding people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”' +++, from @ethanmarcotte.com ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com
A design language, if you can keep it.
ethanmarcotte.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
'[America By Design] proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country...digital design intended for the privileged few, actively excluding people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”' +++, from @ethanmarcotte.com ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
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what other utilities do you know that would host a zine reading in the bowels of a treatment plant
August 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
what other utilities do you know that would host a zine reading in the bowels of a treatment plant
Very much enjoying the Timothy Olyphant -> Malcolm McDowell pipeline, since you ask.
August 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Very much enjoying the Timothy Olyphant -> Malcolm McDowell pipeline, since you ask.
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[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money
August 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money
Together: small vine tomatoes, nectarine, green olives (Perello gordal picante), red pepper, a little finely chopped red onion, burrata, balsamic vinegar + good olive oil + salt + pepper. (You may also accompany with bbq'd chicken thigh with crispy skin).
August 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Together: small vine tomatoes, nectarine, green olives (Perello gordal picante), red pepper, a little finely chopped red onion, burrata, balsamic vinegar + good olive oil + salt + pepper. (You may also accompany with bbq'd chicken thigh with crispy skin).
Thinking a lot about Winnie Soon's Unerasable Character Series, on the horrors of erasure and the scale of unheard voices within the contexts of digital authoritarianism and the 'blank paper' protests in China
(calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/wi... / transmediale.de/en/event/the...)
(calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/wi... / transmediale.de/en/event/the...)
NEW: Parliament Square, London right now.
Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
Police now making arrests.
(📸 Saul Staniforth)
Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
Police now making arrests.
(📸 Saul Staniforth)
August 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thinking a lot about Winnie Soon's Unerasable Character Series, on the horrors of erasure and the scale of unheard voices within the contexts of digital authoritarianism and the 'blank paper' protests in China
(calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/wi... / transmediale.de/en/event/the...)
(calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/wi... / transmediale.de/en/event/the...)
The chapter on 'Deviance' in my book is on payment processors in the adult entertainment industry, spurred by going to b2b pr0n trade fairs and being 🧐 about why?? the fair's main sponsors were all processors??? www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Given that payment processors are at it again, sharing this story I reported in 2014, with what we learned about payment processors and banks after WePay shut down a fundraiser for a sex worker:
Spying, sex and finance: What banks and payment processors are secretly watching - to avoid "risk" - Salon.com
Companies may be monitoring your personal activity -- and, as Eden Alexander learned, the reason will horrify you
www.salon.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The chapter on 'Deviance' in my book is on payment processors in the adult entertainment industry, spurred by going to b2b pr0n trade fairs and being 🧐 about why?? the fair's main sponsors were all processors??? www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Shannon has been such a support & lodestar for me over the past decade; a brilliantly inventive scholar and astonishingly generous human. So much of what she writes so beautifully here is resonant, of being (a woman) in arts/humanities academia, and of carving weirder paths through the green 🌿
June 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Shannon has been such a support & lodestar for me over the past decade; a brilliantly inventive scholar and astonishingly generous human. So much of what she writes so beautifully here is resonant, of being (a woman) in arts/humanities academia, and of carving weirder paths through the green 🌿
In an extremely specific way, '28 Years Later' feels like a sister-piece to 'Isles of Wonder'
June 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
In an extremely specific way, '28 Years Later' feels like a sister-piece to 'Isles of Wonder'
Full fat Cherry Coke with an original Magnum chopped up into it (large pieces) + massive ice-cube, you're welcome
June 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Full fat Cherry Coke with an original Magnum chopped up into it (large pieces) + massive ice-cube, you're welcome
Had some Proper Feelings seeing these posters in the tunnel up to the V&A today - an essential show at any time but especially in the current moment, and by such excellent folks.
Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
June 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Had some Proper Feelings seeing these posters in the tunnel up to the V&A today - an essential show at any time but especially in the current moment, and by such excellent folks.
You may not like it but this is what 2 high agency males look like.
June 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
You may not like it but this is what 2 high agency males look like.