‘The Debauched Commons: A Dark Parable’ summarizes issues regarding intellectual property rights and immaterial culture through a nuanced reading of how First Nations Peoples worldwide have been forced by forms of neoliberal-capitalist exploitation of the knowledge commons to ring-fence and/or commodify their lived traditions, in many cases dat…[Read more]

Written across the years 2017 to 2020, Useless Beauty surveys past, present, and – foremost – futural opportunities for the creation and editioning of nominally “useless” works of artistic scholarship. The book is also a Situationist-inspired “report on situations” and was developed across time- and performance-based works in artistic longing thr…[Read more]

A brief essay on the prevailing terms of engagement today for artist-scholars and the attendant blind spots encountered in the processes and protocols associated with the editioning of works of artistic scholarship. As a critique of cognitive capitalism, the essay infers, through mostly negative means, an exit for artist-scholars through an…[Read more]

A summary of works produced across the years 2017-2020 via the OOI-MTA ad hoc collective. Includes an essay on the ongoing neo-liberalization of the knowledge commons and links to media.