Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk

<p>In their space race the gurus of the NewSpace movement are expanding an imaginary that hybridizes individualism, libertarianism, neoliberal economics, counterculture and utopianism. <em>Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk</em> plays with these cultural references, taking inspiration from the most emblematic statements spoken or tweeted by Elon Musk in recent years. Daniel Rourke, a London-based writer, artist and academic, has resorted to working with the OpenAI Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) language model to imagine and narrate chronicles from a near future in which blockchains have materialized and the deepfakes of Bezos and Musk have colonized Mars. The fictional universe thus created by human and non-human imagination builds a literary counterpart to IOCOSE’s latest works – the video animations <em>Pointing at a New Planet</em> (2020) and <em>Free from History</em> (2021) – presented on the occasion of the <em>All of Your Base</em> exhibition at Aksioma | Project Space in Ljubljana.</p>

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