METROPOLARITY

ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM A BAD USER AGREEMENT?

METROPOLARITY is seeking participants for an upcoming inquiry to be published in the Journal of Speculative Vision & Critical Liberation Technologies.

Are You Experiencing Feelings Of:

• Guilt or Shame
• Anxiety
• Nameless Frustration
• Fininacial Doom
• Self Harming Ideation
• Truancy
• Murderous Raging
• Near-Total Dissociation
• Forgetfullness
• Compulsive Scrolling
• Hypervigilance
• Forced or Pressured Speech
• Paranoia
• Nihilism or Not Caring
• Losing Time

These may be symptoms of living under one or more Bad User Agreements. Common examples of predisposing factors that increase the risk of experiencing a Bad User Agreement include:

• Filling a prescription
• Attending an appointment with a medical profesional
• Enrolling in post secondary educational programs
• Getting married
• Paying into your social security fund
• Existing as Black, Indigenous, Poor, Trans, Disabled, etc.
• Opening a bank account
• Searching for housing
• Leaving your cell phone on for extended periods of time

DUE BY FEBRUARY 14th, 2018
Send experiential materials, dreams, memories, premonitions, cautionary tales, fantasies, and any supplementary self surveillance materials to METROPOLARITY at GMAIL dot COM with subject line “BAD USER AGREEMENT” and any of the following attachments:

.otf .rtf .doc .docx .txt .wav .mp3 .mp4 .jpg .gif .png .pdf .html URL

Participants will receive at no cost:
$$ • 2 copies of the published inquiry
$$ • Financial compensation as determined by number of eligible participants.

Disclaimer: For safety purposes, participation in this inquiry will not require genetic, bio-political, or social mediated data. Participants maintain the right to manipulate any of their own identifying data as they see fit.]

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PHILLY | MAY 10, WEDS | 7 ~ 10 PM | VOX POPULI

</^\> laser life queer sci-fi reading </^\>

***this is the psycho-social, queer liberatory, autonomous, afro-curatorial, queer propulsed pulse, electro light light beam, sigil sub-conscious, navigatory cosmic trance dance on the techno-veldt… this is STYLE OF ATTACK***

METROPOLARITY is a DIY sci-fi collective based, bred, and tested in the colliding future-present of Philadelphia. STYLE OF ATTACK Report contains select work from Metropolarity’s four founding members, who contribute theory, practice, and experience of home grown speculative visioning for both historical documentation as well as personal and collective survival. The collection serves as a model and a record of how Black, brown, queer, low-resource, working, ill and in-recovery people can project themselves into the future, conjuring resources, technology, and magic that aid us in the present.

Also this sci-fi is FIRE cuz the crew don’t play.

Laser Life is a queer sci-fi reading documenting the release of STYLE OF ATTACK and a celebration of the book being nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, the highest honor in LGBT letters.

purchase and peruse the book here:
http://metropolarity.bigcartel.com/product/style-of-attack-report

Come here the futurist voices of:
Ras Mashramani @rasmashramani
Maggie Eighteen @cyborgmemoirs
Rasheedah Phillips @afrofuturistaffair x @blackquantumfuturism
Camae Ayewa @blackquantumfuturism
Alex Smith @theyarebirds
+ special guests TBA

http://metropolarity.net/

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**the artist behind the image in the event photo is unknown. the image is a temporarily liberated hold space**

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livefromphilly:

CineStill 800Tungsten, Nikon FE2, 50mm f/1.8

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centreforstyle:

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i want him to adopt me

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lisa—celine:

Riding Death In My Sleep, 2002. Ink & Collage on paper, 60 x 44 in. 

Wangechi Mutu

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loveserenissima:

Alexander McQueen for Givenchy Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1997