{"id":36876,"date":"2026-01-29T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/?p=36876"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:06:52","slug":"disillusion-and-re-enchantment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/","title":{"rendered":"Disillusion and Re-enchantment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disillusion and Re-enchantment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living the hyperobject means living in Hell. Hell is a place where everything means something. This is a bad person chair. This is a bad person street. This is a bad person garden. This is a bad person. Hell is saturated with meaning. Forever. The same meaning. An endless field of liquefied signification.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

OPEN CALL \u2013 HO_MAG <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Ho Mag nvites you to respond to Morton’s article through your practice, research, and situated experience to unfold\u2013challenging dominant imaginaries through decolonial and non-dual approaches. HO_mag is a transdisciplinary platform of deconstructed realities, a space of exchange to weave together practices, and perspectives grounded in situated knowledges, new contaminations and ways to navigate the complexities of our time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n

OPEN CALL \u2197 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

What Design can\u2019t do by SIlvio Lorusso<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Since chaos is inevitable, design should not be understood as the conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order (Papanek)<\/em>. Instead, it calls for an ability to dwell within chaos, embracing uncertainty while resisting the slide from disillusionment into resentment. Articulating a new poetics of design practice, not only necessary but urgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n

One way to look at design is by the capacity of its action, that is, the order it imposes. But design is also, more simply and fundamentally, yogurt and onions – what we are left with, the mess we\u2019re in.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MORE \u2197 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

Esoteric Algorithms and <\/strong>
Re-Enchanted Technologies<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

curated by Arianna Forte<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Re-enchantment is framed as a collective and political response to the dominance of control, prediction, and technocratic rationality. If algorithms are the basis for the functioning of the digital machines that crowd our planet alongside us – the esoteric algorithm operates in a contradictory manner: it is rooted in non-Western knowledge and \u201cnon-exact\u201d sciences, it operates in a non-neutral way and perpetuates classification systems that have produced exclusion, hierarchy and epistemic violence on the part of the ruling elites. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n

On other occasions, it revives the counter-hegemonic charge of the witchcraft traditions of the subaltern and the bottom-up agency of otherness. Esoteric algorithms are a way to understand contemporary technologies as opaque systems shaped by power, not neutrality. In the exhibition Esoteric Algorithms and Re-Enchanted Technologies curated by Arianna Forte and Noemi Garey, artistic practices are tools to re-enchant technology and restore imagination, agency, and uncertainty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MORE \u2197 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n
\n\t\n\n
\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me introduce you to a coven of beloved witches, lovers, and friends, speaking in tongues made of taboo and tenderness, of shame unlearned and margins reclaimed, of the erotic as knowledge and the esoteric as home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,554],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-36876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-en","category-hello-darkness-en","tag-design-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDisillusion and Re-enchantment - BASE Milano<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BASE hands over the pen to its Design Ambassadors, who explore and reinterpret, the curatorial theme of 2026, Hello Darkness.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disillusion and Re-enchantment - BASE Milano\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BASE hands over the pen to its Design Ambassadors, who explore and reinterpret, the curatorial theme of 2026, Hello Darkness.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BASE Milano\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BaseMilano.aplaceforculturalprogress\/about\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-29T16:11:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-23T12:06:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/forte2.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"BASE Milano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"BASE Milano\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/\",\"name\":\"Disillusion and Re-enchantment - BASE Milano\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/forte2.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-29T16:11:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-23T12:06:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/a62a2b618805e86208dca81952a8be5b\"},\"description\":\"BASE hands over the pen to its Design Ambassadors, who explore and reinterpret, the curatorial theme of 2026, Hello Darkness.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/forte2.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/forte2.jpeg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":1600},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/homepage\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Disillusion and Re-enchantment\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/\",\"name\":\"BASE Milano\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/a62a2b618805e86208dca81952a8be5b\",\"name\":\"BASE Milano\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/881cab54ce0dbe35fff2c7dc155b50f6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/881cab54ce0dbe35fff2c7dc155b50f6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"BASE Milano\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BaseMilano.aplaceforculturalprogress\/about\",\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/base_milano\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/10390417\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/author\/bm_gestione\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Disillusion and Re-enchantment - BASE Milano","description":"BASE hands over the pen to its Design Ambassadors, who explore and reinterpret, the curatorial theme of 2026, Hello Darkness.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Disillusion and Re-enchantment - BASE Milano","og_description":"BASE hands over the pen to its Design Ambassadors, who explore and reinterpret, the curatorial theme of 2026, Hello Darkness.","og_url":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/","og_site_name":"BASE Milano","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BaseMilano.aplaceforculturalprogress\/about","article_published_time":"2026-01-29T16:11:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-02-23T12:06:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":1600,"url":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/forte2.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"BASE Milano","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"BASE Milano","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/","url":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/","name":"Disillusion and Re-enchantment - BASE Milano","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/forte2.jpeg","datePublished":"2026-01-29T16:11:07+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-23T12:06:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/a62a2b618805e86208dca81952a8be5b"},"description":"BASE hands over the pen to its Design Ambassadors, who explore and reinterpret, the curatorial theme of 2026, Hello Darkness.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/forte2.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/forte2.jpeg","width":1280,"height":1600},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/disillusion-and-re-enchantment\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/homepage\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Disillusion and Re-enchantment"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/","name":"BASE Milano","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/a62a2b618805e86208dca81952a8be5b","name":"BASE Milano","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/prelive.base.milano.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/881cab54ce0dbe35fff2c7dc155b50f6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/881cab54ce0dbe35fff2c7dc155b50f6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"BASE Milano"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BaseMilano.aplaceforculturalprogress\/about","http:\/\/instagram.com\/base_milano\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/10390417\/"],"url":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/author\/bm_gestione\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37484,"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876\/revisions\/37484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}