More information  to follow regarding other guest speakers at this event, but for now here’s the blurb for The Birth of Digital Populism book launch event I’m speaking at on July 2nd (5-7pm) – part of a Red Tape event hosted by the RCA. Red Tape 5 — Form(s) of populismIn occasion of the launch of ‘The Birth of Digital Populism’, a book by the Italian collective Obsolete Capitalism, Red Tape introduces a discussion focusing on new forms of populism, investigating the role of images, faciality and the aesthetic of populist politics today.This discussion will focus on the coming together of computation and politics, and will try to investigate the visual form they can take together. Does the rise of computation allow for unexpected configuration of politics to emerge? ‘The Birth of Digital Populism’, published by Obsolete Capitalism in 2015, tries to answer this question by focuses on the…