Tèque X-tra — small zines for the curious minds
Since November 2023, with my fellow Guillaume Heuguet, we are editing paper-based zines in French, they are published by Editions Audimat (Paris, FR).
♦ Crypto Forever by Sally Olds, translated in French by Loup Cellard and Guillaume Heuguet, design by Pierre Vanni.
Abstract : The scandals surrounding the major cryptocurrency entrepreneurs are numerous, the most spectacular of which is undoubtedly the conviction for fraud and money laundering of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the FTX sales platform — which has not prevented bitcoin from regaining its highest value for a year. This first-person account by Australian author Sally Olds tells the anonymous story of these small-time investors who cling to crypto to survive precariousness or find an ideology in which to invest. Far from the image of the « tech bro » — a white, straight man, a geek in his early thirties — Sally Olds tells us how crypto has also vampirized her queer and arty friends, adepts of polyamory and one-night stands. Olds helps us understand how the success of cryptocurrencies, far from being limited to a monolithic ideology, has fed a diversity of contradictory needs and desires.
Sally Olds is a writer from Queensland living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work has been published by Sydney Review of Books, un Magazine, AQNB, the Institute of Modern Art, collected in anthologies, and shortlisted for the Griffith Review’s Emerging Voices Competition and the Sydney Review of Books/Copyright Agency’s Emerging Critics Fellowship. She has collaborated extensively with Precog, a club night held in Naarm, and taught writing workshops in and outside of university. This is her first book.
Crypto Forever is the translation of the eponymous chapter from the book People who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure, and Loose Living published by Upswell Publishing in 2022.
Tèque — a tech criticism journal
Since March 2021, I am editing Tèque, a paper-based tech criticism review in French, co-edited with Guillaume Heuguet and Samuel Aubert and published by Editions Audimat, (Paris, FR).
♦ Cellard, L. Heuguet, G. (editor) Tèque N°3, revue de critique des technologies, Audimat Editions, Paris. With contributions by artist Crystal Bennes, designer Nolwenn Maudet and computer scientist Paul Ford, Jan 2023.
♦ Cellard, L. Heuguet, G. (editor) Tèque N°2, revue de critique des technologies, Audimat Editions, Paris. With contributions by Nick Seaver (Nortwesthern), Robin James (UNC Charlotte), and Laura Forlano (Northeastern University), Sept 2022.
♦ Cellard, L. Heuguet, G. (editor) Tèque N°1, revue de critique des technologies, Audimat Editions, Paris. With contributions by Silvio Lorusso (INC Amsterdam), Rob Horning (Real Life Mag), Hubert Guillaud (Internetactu.net), Marlowe Granados (The Baffler) and Karen Hao (MIT Tech Review), Jan 2022.
Strabic — a design criticism journal
From 2011 to 2014, I was member of the editorial team of Strabic, a digital review on design.
To see all my articles for Strabic click here.
Critical essays for Strabic.fr :
♦“Show me your body, Show me your data. Quantification de soi et politique des données personnelles“. (“Show me your body, Show me your Data. The Quantified self and the politics of personal data.”) Strabic.fr. Special Issue on “Body”. 10/12/13.
♦”Google Street Sound, une fiction ?” (“Google Street Sound, a fiction ?”). Strabic.fr. Special Issue on “Cartography of subjectivity”. 05/06/12.
Book reviews for Strabic.fr :
♦ “Élisée Reclus : Le Projet de Globe au 100000e” on Projet de Globe au 100 000e Élisée Reclus. Éditions B2, December 2011. Strabic.fr. 26/06/14.
♦ “VOIR LE VOIR. Un imagier de John Berger” on Voir le Voir. John Berger. Éditions B42 March 2014. Strabic.fr. 18/06/14.
♦ “Chercher les termes” on Search Terms : Basse Déf. Edited by Nicolas Thély. Éditions B42, August 2012. Strabic.fr. 13/01/12.
♦ “Circumnavigations l’imaginaire du voyage dans l’expérience internet “ on Circumnavigations, L’imaginaire du voyage dans l’expérience Internet. Stéphane Hugon, CNRS Éditions. Septembre 2010. Strabic.fr. 10/12/11.
Issue journal reviews for Strabic.fr :
♦ ”Contraintes #1 Les Tactiques de Chronos”. Strabic.fr. 08/08/12.
♦ “Une revue : Back Cover #5”. Strabic.fr. 27/06/12.
♦ “The Shelf #1”. Strabic.fr. 02/06/12.
Exhibition reviews for Strabic.fr :
♦ “Jeux de lettres à Chaumont” on Exhibition « Jeux de Lettres », from 16 january 2013 to 10 february 2013, CDDP, Chaumont, France. Strabic.fr. 24/01/2013.
♦ “Festival Némo #2” on Festival Némo #2 – Special Digital Québec. From 6 to 9 october 2011. 104 and Gaîté Lyrique. Paris, France. Strabic.fr. 07/10/11.
♦“ Public Domaine – Skateboard Culture” on Public Domaine – Skateboard Culture. Jusqu’au 7 Août à la Gaîté Lyrique, 3 bis rue Papin, 75003. 16/07/11.
Survey articles on past and present digital technologies for Strabic.fr :
♦ “Aspen, a multimedia magazine in a box 1965-1971”. Strabic.fr. 01/02/15
♦”L’imaginaire urbain des internets” (“The urban digital imaginary”) Strabic.fr. 06/05/14.
♦”WEARABLE TECH IS THE NEW CHIC Élégance, recherche du désir et introspection grâce aux technologies portatives”. (“WEARABLE TECH IS THE NEW CHIC. Elegance, research of desire and introspection with wearable technologies”) Strabic.fr. 29/01/14.
♦ “Rutilant et doré notre futur technologique ?” (“Gleaming and golden our technological future ?”) Strabic.fr. 08/01/14.