INOCULATE
ISSUE 02
As dominant platforms continue to construct an unimaginative reality of sleekness, convenience, and extraction, we wonder: How do we Inoculate networks with our consideration and attention, against the flattening, homogenizing forces of the internet?
This second issue of COMPOST magazine takes a step back; widening our scope and probing how we shape digital networks and how they shape us back.
Foreword
A letter from the editors.
Qubit Guarantee
A cybersecurity specialist named Kurt uses his employers' quantum computing platform to help corporations nullify ransomware attacks--but a routine job goes far off-script when he's sent to Raleigh, North Carolina.
Re: Sister
What happens when two women write to each other about food?
https://two.compost.digital/
Uncivilizing Digital Territories
Current digital technologies are the products of cultures that aren't aligned with nature. Can we subvert them to empower nature-based cultures and strenghten local communities?
https://two.compost.digital/
Logging Off
A gentle choose-your-own-adventure story about mushroom foraging, coming to terms with Indigenous displacement, and sustaining online community. What happens when the internet brings you closer to nature?
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https://two.compost.digital/
A Confluence of Waters
Two friends build fairy rings with their art, stories and technology. Playing for keeps with The Blue Marbles Project.
https://two.compost.digital/
https://two.compost.digital/
Clock Basket No. 1
In which a pair of voices imagine a world without clocks. Best enjoyed with a friend.
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https://two.compost.digital/
Growth Through Replication
Ritualistic curation of nature into the digital realm.
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Reverence for the Spaces In-Between
Sultana Zana is an artist, researcher, mycelial-enthusiast, insect-fanatic, and network-inoculator. We talked to them about redefining value, the dynamism of paranodal space, and learning to see and appreciate what has been made invisible.
https://two.compost.digital/
Back Cover
Tangents, fragments, and shoutouts!