(abstract)
What can an anthology on art, technology, society and the environment tell us about the future? In a period of a prolonged generalised crisis – that is social, economic, political and environmental at the same time, with wars and an ongoing climate catastrophe – what can these essays communicate? To what extent can critical texts and culture at large offer tools for thinking and acting? Overwhelmed with the feeling that we have no agency to affect what happens in the world nowadays, the only way to step forward might be to look back without losing our desire and urge to change the present and shape the future.

The PostScriptUM Anthology (2010–2023): Essays on Art, Technology, Society and the Environment is not simply an anniversary publication. It also reflects Aksioma’s role in the local and international community of digital arts, bringing together various disciplines and cultures. Domenico Quaranta and myself, as editors of this publication, were invited to offer our own afterthoughts, looking back through time, noticing how the different texts capture what happened not only at Aksioma and in Ljubljana, but also in the world of connectivity and digital culture at large.